You know… morons.

A Sunday poll — actually three national phone surveys of 1,000 registered voters — found that 17% of all polled, or more than 500…

At first, I thought Andrew Malcolm Johnson’s math was bad. Then, I realized it was his command of syntax that was bad.

Zombies. I shot a rabbit on Easter and tried to resurrect it as a part of my ongoing effort to gain personal tax exempt status.

Most mass murderers are “pretty average Americans” – except inside their heads.

Did the poll have some additional questions to better qualify the answers? Like, “when was the last time you managed to tie your own shoelaces?” Or “before you eat paste, do you heat it in the microwave?” Even if it did, there’d be little we could do with this new snapshot of America except cringe, sigh and move on.

OK, 17% out of three polls of 1,000 each, totaling3,000? That’s, say, 510. They also were polling registered voters, which is not necessarily everyone who will vote in 2012. Also, a lot of polls – consider the people to whom they’re selling their product – are based on the assumption – apparently either not true or open to challenge – that they polled more Republicans than Dems because Republicans have voted more frequently than Dems in the two Presidential elections before 2008. Finally, I am confused:

“The Tea Party adherents broke down 28% independent, 17% Democrat and only 57% Republican.”

28% + 17% + 57% = 102%. Am I missing something crucial here?

Isn’t the Winston Group Newt Gingrich’s little outfit? So education advocacy group might translate to “propaganda generator” in a kinder, gentler America, where the $787B stimulus package isn’t laid at the feet of President Blackie McDarkington.

What they all have in common is immense stupidity and the need for spelling lessons.

Ahh. So lemme get this straight. You can’t get them to tell you what they want, what they believe or what’s actually bad or threatening about the current administration. You can’t get them to explain what policies they’d like to see implemented, or to describe what freedoms or liberties current policy might threaten. You can’t get them to define “socialism” or “fascism” except that it’s something they don’t like and it’s liberals, who they also don’t like. They don’t like government, except the military and the medicare and the highways and the fire departments and the poison control hotline and any other thing the government might do that they might want to utilize. You can’t get them to describe how they’d like to see the budget structured, except taxes are bad and spending is bad, except for all the spending that isn’t bad.

But you can get them to tell you if they’re democrats or republicans or even independents, and to agree that abortion is murder, guns are necessary, and there’s just SOMETHING about President Barack Hussein Obama they just don’t like much…

mikey

Are zombies covered by medicare? And if not, and they need to buy private insurance, is zombieism considered a pre-exisiting condition?

Oh, zombies aren’t so bad. I mean, “Time of the Season” was pretty good. Catchy melody, easy to dance to…I’d give it a nine.

I’d rather speculate about Tiger Woods’ penis than hear a Teabagger whine.

And the Zombies also predicted Sarah Palin: “She’s not there.”

Well, no one told me about her
The way she lied
Well, no one told me about her
How many people cried

So, ONLY 57% are R’s???? They say that like it’s just a miniscule bit of the group….and 28 % are “Independents”….sure they are….those are probably just the smarter of the respondents, who are trying to minimize their R-ness, at least for the survey….

The funny part is that fucking nerd Cantor thinks he has a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming dogcatcher with these racists.

You know, Glenn Beck considers himself to be an independent. It’s funny that so many independents vote for republicans, hate democrats and liberals, and don’t complain about government when it’s run by the GOP. It’s almost as if they were republicans.

But no, they hate “big government.” Of course, as posted upthread, if a person can’t “… tell you what they want, what they believe or what’s actually bad or threatening about the current administration …” then the easiest thing for them to do is to define an independent middle as the ground they’re standing on.

What the poll really says is that 85% of teabaggers are republicans and 17% think they’re being funny when they say that they’re democrats.

The Tea Party adherents broke down 28% independent, 17% Democrat and only 57% Republican.

“Democrat,” eh? These assholes always give themselves away.

90% of statistics are bullshit, with a margin of error of 10%.

“Only” 57% Republican!

Gee, that wouldn’t happen to be why the Tea Party leadership has been assimilated right back into the RNC from whence they came, eh?

Let’s not forget, these are the same innumerate people who think that 59 is a majority of 100….

In the article, it was only 13% Dems. I think you need to double-check those numbers, tbogg.

Be that as it may, it seems to be just about right: 9 out of 10 will admit to being either Repub or Ind, while only 1 will claim the dreaded D.

But I’m still not convinced they aren’t all Repubs, lying to themselves and us.

They were ordered to spontaneously form an independent movement. The people who make up this “movement” have been tooled by the Republicans so comprehensively for so long that they don’t even feel it any more.

“Particularly now that the Sheriff President is a nig–”
EXACTLY

The truly revealing stat is that only 13% of people who identified as T.P.ers were smart enough to identify as Dems in order to generate headlines like this.

In the real world, it’s not astounding that 13% of ‘Baggers could be “Reagan Democrats” who haven’t voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate since Carter, PUMAs, & the usual anti-choice Catholic DINOs, yada.

28% + 17% + 57% = 102%. Am I missing something crucial here?

Nah, you’re just behind on your Texas ‘rithmetic skillz…as implemented by a 60+ yr old, Serious White Guy at the once quite decent Los Angeles Times…

I’m living in the LA area these last few years, and the LATimes has been completely turned over to dead-tree versions of ErickErick, in this case the pathetic Andrew Malcolm…

Exactly. And those people–who know that they’re mad, but not really why, and who demand something but don’t really know what, and who daily use terms they can’t define, and who passionately believe things that have been disproved a dozen times–are “commonsense Americans.”

I said in 2008 that Blazing Saddles would be the cultural guidepost to Obama’s career, and the ‘murkin people haven’t proven me wrong yet.

I bet Obama uses this one all the time: “Oh, baby, you are so talented… and they are SO DUMB!”

“28% + 17% + 57% = 102%. Am I missing something crucial here?”

Crucial indeed! My high school coaches ALL demanded 110%, so there’s a missing 8% out there…..

Bush + Zombies = Also, too

Bipartisanship, Andrew Malcolm style:

Congressional Democrats are viewed very unfavorably by 75 percent of Tea Party members – a uniquely strong antipathy. An overwhelming 95 percent said “Democrats are taxing, spending, and borrowing too much.”

The group also vehemently dislikes President Barack Obama – even more so than those who called themselves Republicans in the survey. Over 80 percent of Tea Party members disapprove of the job he’s doing as president, whereas 77 percent of Republican respondents said they disapprove of Obama. The Tea Party members are also strongly opposed to the Democrats’ healthcare plan, with 82 percent saying they oppose it — only 48 percent of respondents overall were opposed.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/90541-survey-four-in-10-tea-party-members-dem-or-indie

Love the way the headline trumpets the fact that 4 in 10 are “Democrats or Independents” (rather than “6 in 10 are Republicans”). Most independents tend to lean one way or the other, so the headline would have been a lot more accurate if it said: “85% of Tea Party Members are Republican or Republican-Leaning Independents,” but of course then Andrew Malcolm wouldn’t have gotten his dick hard.

Morans

and to go completely off topic, anyone see the new Friskies commercial? They’re putting LSD in cat food I guess

“anyone see the new Friskies commercial? They’re putting LSD in cat food I guess”

They weren’t before? Ooooh boy, that’s what one gets for assuming….

Okay, how long til a kindly old white racist lady bakes the President a pie?

The primary reason the Teabaggers include “democrats” is because a certain right wing radio /republican party leader encouraged his listeners to register as Democrats in Spring of 2008 to be able to vote for Hillary in the Dem primary races. Thus, they ARE Democrats.

But not in my world.

But what about the Irish?

You may not remember the animated 9 Lives “Wonderland” ad from the 70s, with Paul Lynde voicing the Cheshire Cat: “Cheshires th’ name, and grinnin’s m’game! Heh heh.” It was sort of Lewis Carroll by way of Peter Max.