Disgruntled Democrats Join Tea Party

[BolivarianHero]

Source: CNN

They are not typical Tea Party activists: A woman who voted for President Obama and believes he's a "phenomenal speaker." Another who said she was a "knee-jerk, bleeding heart liberal."

To be sure, the number of Democrats in the Tea Party movement is small. A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows that while 96 percent of Tea Party activists identify themselves as either Republican or Independent, only 4 percent say they are Democrats.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/02/democrats.tea.party/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

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Wow...4% of Tea Party members are Democrats. That doesn't even encompass all the old racist hillbilly "Democrats" who still spend their lives drinking moonshine, making juvenile racial slurs, and bitching about Lincoln.

More GOP Spin from CNN!

[Skittles]

1. utter fucking nonsense

no real self-respecting Dem would be affiliated with racist fuckwit teabaggers, no matter HOW dismayed they are by President Obama

[SecularMotion]

33. +1

[Mojeoux]

38. bull pucky

[Grand Taurean]

2. Nonsense.

[CLANG]

3. Sorry, but I don't buy it.

Just like people troll DU posing as one of us to try to influence us, these are the same type of people.

[rocktivity]

4. And a happy Apri Fool's Day right back at ya, CNN

"I was a card-carrying member of the ACLU, and I probably did inhale in college...I think we've gone too far on the side of government doing too much...The Democratic Party is wanting to take care of everyone, instead of helping everybody stand on their own two feet."

This is either an April Fool's joke or teabaggers pretending to be ex-Dems. Come now, would a REAL ex-Dem say anything as imbecilic as "I probably did inhale in college"?

:eyes:
rocktivity

[BrainlessGeorge]

5. For real...

I'd be more likely to own up to it and say "I was high from 10th grade on..."

[SwampG8r]

7. Reagan was a dem at one time

i think he qualifies as an ex-dem

[No Elephants]

27. Joe McCarthy converted him.

[Hawkeye-X]

8. They were probably ex-gay too.

You know how they hate themselves. :P

[susanna]

19. "Card-carrying member of the ACLU" kinda tipped me off.

Well, to utter insincerity that is. Yeah...sure you were!

[No Elephants]

28. The ACLU used to advertise that. I say it proudly.

[SwampG8r]

6. Jimmy Lincoln? guy still owes me money!

[whatchamacallit]

9. What a fucking pantload

:eyes:

[Lasher]

10. And the 4% who self identify as Democrats are lying

to try to make it look like the movement is something other than a splinter group of Republican right wing extremists.

[BolivarianHero]

11. Statistically, there is still a small proportion of extremely reactionary Southerners who identify D

Doesn't mean they vote as Dems or that they have the same beliefs as mainstream Dems, but they just say the same thing they've said all their lives.

[Lasher]

14. I live in the south in the US and I don't know any Democrats who identify with teabaggers.

Must be statistically insignificant.

[susanna]

21. and we have a winnah! n/t

[one_voice]

12. Um...

I call BS on this. I just don't see a self described bleeding heart liberal joining up with the baggers. No way.

I also think the one that supposedly said she voted for Obama because he's "phenomenal speaker" is a "plant" cuz that's why the Pubes say we voted for Obama...only style not substance. That's right out of their talking points. Jesus, she couldn't even come up with something original.

They just make shit up as they go along...the baggers not CNN. But CNN should have pressed these two, so much for journalism.

[FarLeftFist]

13. Bullshit. I have way more in common with Anarcho-Syndicalists than these racist hillbillys any day.

http://workersolidarity.org/

[Ghost Dog]

31. Makes sense.

http://www.zcommunications.org/znet

[Warpy]

15. It's probably called "being dragged along with my husband,"

although some of them might be older folks who are desperate for some social outlet and who just don't do the religion thing.

4% of any group does not make a mass exodus, but I'm sure they'll still hype this one to death.

[EFerrari]

16. cr@p not news.

[Aramchek]

17. wonder why they didn't allow any comments on this bit of propaganda?

[Walk away]

18. Only a Teabagger could be so deluded as to think they are a Democrat...

when they have absolutely nothing in common with one. I still have not met a Bagger who didn't think that Nancy Pelosi was a she devil and Obama was a secret Muslim. They keep going on TV and pretending they are a normal cross section of the American public who are plagued with a small fringe element but when you ask the "birther/socialist" questions they always crack and show their true colors.

[Kali]

20. and what's the margin of error, + or - five?

:eyes:

[rpannier]

34. If it were a faux poll it would have been 15%

About 6 years ago they put out a poll with a +/- of 10%.
They actually announced that when they published it

[sam sarrha]

22. lying sacks of ReThuglick'n rancid shit... it's like a 6 year old making crank calls..

[krkaufman]

23. Yet they do a story on them ....

... while ignoring the immigration reform gathering in DC.

[krkaufman]

24. "I feel lied to, cheated and raped."

One of the "Democrats" within the Tea Party. mmm-kay.

[mwrguy]

25. I call bullshit

CNN is trying anything to get some ratings back.

[TheKentuckian]

26. What percentage of Democrats are in the DeMint area of the spectrum???

and some of the teabaggers make him look like Dukakis or something.

BULLSHIT

[backscatter712]

29. There's always the PUMAs - all 12 of them.

hillaryis44.com is still at it - maybe CNN's talking about those folks. :rofl:

[No Elephants]

30. Racist or lying or both.

[rpannier]

32. 4%

Zell Miller, Ed Koch, etc

People who ceased to be Democrats when the Party decided minorities were people too

on edit: Like Miller they never changed their registration so they still can claim to be Democrats

[lonestarnot]

35. Nope. A demofuckingcrat is never going to join up with the teabaggers.

NOT EVER. I find this :rofl:

[TankLV]

36. I smell BULLSHIT.

If anything these IDIOTS were all "ray gun democrats" in other words, repukes who are to lazy to change their affiliation and/or admit it...

[Tailormyst]

37. No liberal democrat would ever align with those people