Voters Cut Ties with Democrat/Republican Parties & Say What?? 57% of Tea Partiers Think George Bush was a Good President?

Voters Cut Ties with Democrat/Republican Parties & Say What?? 57% of Tea Partiers Think George Bush was a Good President?
By Marc Chamot

As more Americans are losing faith in Washington politicians, there is no doubt that Independents are the fastest growing political voters group in America.

With Pew Research Centers’ horrendous poll numbers that shows only 22% of the voters trust the government, and with Harris’ Polls, showing only 8% have total confidences in congress and the FEDS.

Not only public anger is dead set against the FEDS, but states are also feeling its wrath of this public anger/backlash. In most states, approval ratings have dropped over 50%, except for the south.

According to the USA Today, Frustrated voters cut ties with Democrats, Republicans “The nation's fastest-growing political party is "none of the above," which could be bad news for Democrats and Republicans.

As the 2010 midterm elections and the anti-tax "Tea Party" movement take shape, more Americans are registering "unaffiliated" rather than signing up with one of the two major parties.

The number of independent voters has grown faster in the past two years than Democrats and Republicans in at least 14 of the 28 states and the District of Columbia that register voters by party, according to a USA TODAY review.

"It's been a steady incline," says Ken Bennett, secretary of State in Arizona, where unaffiliated voters have jumped 30% since 2008. "It's kind of an in-your-face reminder to candidates of both parties that there's a whole other block of people who have to be acknowledged and courted."

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Unaffiliated voters now outnumber Democrats and Republicans in nine states: Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

Several states have seen dramatic shifts in the past two years, according to voter registration data:

•North Carolina has seen an 18% jump in unaffiliated voters, 8% among Democrats and no increase for Republicans. "People no longer want to be associated with a party," says elections director Gary Bartlett. "They like to not be categorized."

•In New Hampshire, independents are up 16%, Democrats 2%, and Republicans are flat. "The people who choose to be undeclared … are interested in voting for the person, regardless of party affiliation," says Deputy Secretary of State Dave Scanlan.

•Nevada's unaffiliated and independent registrations are up 13%, Democrats 8%. The GOP lost 2%.

Even where the rise of independents has slowed, officials predict a rebound. Says Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown: "It's because of the frustration with the political situation in Washington."

This not only shows that the two main parties in power are in deep trouble politically, it also shows that business as usual in the United States is pretty much over.

Even though I am a Tea Party sympathizer, and me, as an independent, I will not totally embrace this group as my own. I really don’t care what Liberals say about the Tea Party, whether they are majority whites and well-off.

But I have some issues with the Tea Party. There are some credibility issues, where the Tea Party hasn’t yet garnered the backings and support from Independent voters at large.

So what’s the problem with the Tea Party, with Independents like me? In recent New York Times survey on the Tea Party, 57 percent of its members view our former president, George Bush favorably, while 58% of the nation viewed him unfavorably, which in my opinion George Bush was the WORST American president since Jimmy Carter.

The FACTS are, it was because of former President George Bush’s incompetence’s we’ve got Obama in the U.S. presidency today, and with his liberal idiocies. That is why Democrats creamed Republicans back in 2006 and 2008.

The Tea Party credibility problems begins by asking, where were they when former President George Bush went into profligates spending, such as the ones they are now complaining about? Do you remember? George Bush led the largest debt expansion in American history and spent more than his last predecessors, doubling the federal budget during his tenure.

The FACTS also are the $700 billion TARP bailouts to Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley was begun by Bush, those they are all bitching about today.

My other big problem with the Tea Party movement, they have never addressed their views on illegal immigration. To me, they suspiciously seem to be the folks that helped carry former Georg Bush’s agendas, shall we say?

The bottom line folks, the Tea Party will help keep the Obama left-wing politicos in check. But they will not decide all elections, without Independents being involved. And shall we say how angry they got with newly elected Republican Senator from Massachusetts Scott Brown, when he didn’t move to their very whim?

Tea Parties are Okay to watch and keep at distance, they need to be watched by Independents’ very closely, and if they ever change their views that support issues for Americans, like jobs bills and other favorable things for us, rather than corporate interests it would be a real good thing.

In regards to Republican Party cash woes: But then again, even though the Democratic Party is still showing superior cash advantages over the GOP, this doesn’t mean anything on elections. The electorate has grown wiser and they are too damn smart to fall for their lines of BS.

Usually the party in power has all the advantages in fundraisings over the other, they are the more influential. The Republicans did it back in 2006 and it didn’t help them any when they got thrashed by Democrats. So there it is!