Gallup Poll Points To GOP Ownership of Tea Baggers

Another poll (amongst the numerous) shows the Freedom Fighting tea bagger movement is, wait, surprise, overwhelmingly Republican. I know, it's a shock isn't it. The Fold Blog has been trying endlessly to correctly label the fringe movement as nothing more than the motivated faction of the Republican Party. Clearly, as the polls are indicating, they are upset they lost the 2008 election, don't view Obama as a legitimate president (just like they didn't view Clinton as one), and simply want a Republican back in the White House.

This time Gallup breaks it down for us. 

PRINCETON, NJ -- There is significant overlap between Americans who identify as supporters of the Tea Party movement and those who identify as conservative Republicans. Their similar ideological makeup and views suggest that the Tea Party movement is more a rebranding of core Republicanism than a new or distinct entity on the American political scene.

Wow where have we heard that before?  Oh yeah I've been saying it for a year now.  Check out the breakdown.

Not surprising in the least bit, nearly 80% of tea baggers claim to be Republican.  When asked how they plan to vote in the next election, another 80% responded REPUBLICAN.  That's nearly as high as an internal Republican poll. 

Let's sum this up.  Every single poll ever conducted has shown overwhelming loyalty to the GOP by tea baggers-- even ones conducted by the GOP itself.  All around the country people are running on the Republican ticket as tea bagger candidates desperately trying to create some purgatory where they can elude their name brand and yet allow the GOP to pick up the seat.  If a fringe group of people were slapping nuts with their talk of small government and claimed loyalty to the Democratic Party the way the tea baggers are doing with the GOP, there is no doubt the media along with every pundit in the world would have labeled it a Democratic movement a long time ago.

Once again, as with every poll I've seen so far, I'm disappointed Gallup did not ask the profession of the respondent (or if they did, they haven't released it yet).  That would really cut to the core of what these crazy people are all about.  My guess is a large section of them would either have a tax payer funded job, be receiving unemployment, disability, Social Security, on Medicare or other government welfare services like farm subsidies.  I think all are critical to any group of people who claim reducing the size of government is their biggest concern.  We have no reason to believe polling data of that question would demonstrate anything else.