I have said some of this and agree with Juan Williams on this. The Tea Party has had a profound influence on Republican politics and even Democrat politics to some degree.
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Romney, Obama and Paul -- Is It 1992 All Over Again?
By Juan Williams
Published January 02, 2012
| FoxNews.com
There are less than 24 hours to go before the Iowa caucuses.
At this point, even without the first votes of the 2012 GOP presidential primary yet to be cast, here is what I can say without equivocation about this political year.
For starters, this is the most unsettled presidential field I have seen in over 30 years of covering politics. The last six months have brought us a rapid succession of political boomlets from candidates not named Mitt Romney.
And right now 41 percent of people likely to attend an Iowa Caucus tell the Des Moines Register that they still “could be persuaded” to change their minds.
That signals strong, persistent Republican voter discontent with this field of candidates......
I'm the least bit worried. I think a large part of the so called discontent is manufactured up by the media for a story. The party will get behind the winner.
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I'm sure the media is trying to manufacture such discontent but the media will also not bother reading the rest of the article like many. Williams makes an interesting conclusion about how much the Tea party has indeed influenced the Republican Party.
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For starters, this is the most unsettled presidential field I have seen in over 30 years of covering politics
With all due respect to Juan Williams people (voters) have access to information at a speed and depth unprecedented in history.
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I'm the least bit worried. I think a large part of the so called discontent is manufactured up by the media for a story. The party will get behind the winner.
I agree Fieldmouse. The media need the drama...its good for business.
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It's unsettled because the majority of the candidates aren't worth a damn. They are the same ole same ole, flip flop flip flop, pander the the bases for their own advancement "good ole boys". An increasing number of people are flat sick and tired of it.
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The best proof of this transformation is how quickly GOP candidates are willing to abandon moderate and liberal beliefs they previously held, in order to appeal to the base.
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich once supported the individual mandate in health care, now they oppose it. In the past, both said they believed in manmade global warming an supported a cap on carbon emissions, now they have switched. Rick Perry was for comprehensive immigration reform before he was against it. And the list goes on.
The only consistent candidate that will tell it like it is is Paul. The truth hurts and most people don't want to hear it so they stick their heads up their butts and keep doing what they have been doing for years and vote for the establishment reopublican praying that one of the "good ole boys" will have an epiphany and magically fix everything. They aren't going to, but they will make the same ole same ole back door deals with the same people that have been ****ing us for the last hundred years. The sheeple keep putting them in power election after election. Doing the same thing time after time but expecting different results each time......... insanity.
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The one candidate who has been thoroughly consistent is Ron Paul, whom many regard as the intellectual godfather of the Tea Party movement. Earlier this year, I remarked that we were now living in the age of Ron Paul because of his influence in shaping Tea Party sentiment.
Paul’s surge into the top tier and the real possibility that he will run as a third party candidate signals that Tea Party movement has come full-circle.
In the Iowa Poll published in Sunday’s Register Paul wins a leading 42 percent of independents. The poll found a jump in likely-caucus attendance among people who call themselves Independent, from 13 percent in 2008 to 26 percent this year. Romney is second among independents with just 19 percent. And Paul wins among people most likely to go to a caucus on several key questions such as who is the most knowledgeable candidate, most consistent, most dedicated to limiting government, cut the debt, reduce spending on war and least ego driven.
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it was the same way with Mccain (who also isnt a true conservative in my book), once he got the nomination everybody fell in behind him giving support. I think this is just a game by the media and the dems to try and diminish the republican candidate as much as possible, to try and make as much infighting as possible. I really dont see obama winning a re-election bid against almost any of the republican candidates. The first time he ran on no record and just some nice speeches.....now he has a record and its pretty abysmal.
Juan Williams--1992 all Over Again?
