Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Republicans vs Tea party...Same or Different?

Most followers of the GOP and The Tea Party have watched the debates, Tweeting opinions in real time.  The last debate yesterday was dubbed the "CNN Tea Party Debate".  Where then is the Republican Party Debate or the GOP Candidates?  Is the Tea Party now synonymous with the Republican Party?  If so, that will be a problem in November of 2012.  Why?  Because Independents and Democrats view the Tea Party as a bunch of radical right-wing, Constitution thumping nut-jobs!


The GOP, despite the decrease in the polls of Obama and his failed policies, or "Change", needs the votes of some Democrats and a lot of Independents to win in 2012!
The Grand Old Party (GOP), as the Republican Party is sometimes referred to, can trace its roots back to the United States Democratic-Republican Party, with an anti-monarchy, pro-decentralization and pro-entrepreneur leanings, which it subsequently broke away from in 1854 owing to their increasingly leftist agenda. Its rise to power was swift, where its candidate, Abraham Lincoln, won the presidency in 1860, barely four years after they fielded their first candidate in a national election and six years after its formation. Since then, they have had another 17 Republican presidents, serving a total of 88 years.

The party boasts of 55 million registered voters, the second largest in the country, and is known as an advocate of American conservatism, espousing the role of religion, nationalism and economics at its core.

Former Republican Presidents: Lincoln (1861-1865), Grant (1869-1877), Hayes (1877-1881), Garfield (1881), Arthur (1881-1885), Harrison (1889-1893), McKinley (1897-1901), T. Roosevelt (1901-1909), Taft (1909-1913), Harding (1921-1923), Coolidge (1923-1929), Hoover (1929-1933), Eisenhower (1953-1961), Nixon (1969-1974), Ford (1974-1977), Reagan (1981-1989), Bush, H (1989-1993), Bush, W (2001-2009)
***Courtesy 2012 Republican Candidates Web Page   

WOW...this is a problem.

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