Which is... you know, largely pointless when every other news channel that other people are watching are bashing them.  I don't know how that can't be seen as an issue.  Afterall if only Fox news takes something seriously, most people aren't.

Probably. Sparse and snide is a pretty good description of most of the media's coverage.

I was listening to BBC radio on my way home the other day (I have XM), and they were interviewing three people from the tea party at the rally in DC.

All three of them had very good points they brought up, and every one of them had an issue to talk about. You would have never seen that interview on mainstream media here in the US. They would have found the few people out of the thousands with misspelled signs, or yelling crap at people, and put that on the news.

The reason the Tea Party is going to be a real force in my opinion, is it's a party of only issues. If you were to go to one, and ask everyone why they were there, you would hear about taxes, or healthcare, or spending, or the war, or any number of other issues.

Almost no one would mention Obama, or the democrats, or the republicans. It's not about hate for a man or a party. It's about the issues. And when your fighting against someone who just wants to talk about the issus, it's very hard to win, if your not right. A smile and a good speech writer is not going to do it.

The right answer would make more problems. That's because it's the right answer, and not the easy answer.

For example, if someone had gone to John Adams when he was president, and said "We have hundreds in Georgia going hungry", he would have been extremely upset. He most likely would have done something as an American to try and help. But it would not of even entered his mind that the federal government should come to the aid of these people.

It was never the federal governments job to make sure you eat. It still shouldn't be. That's the right answer.

I believe people think his suggestions are a little too "extreme" or "radical" because there really hasn't been a politician for a long time who was willing to make the right decisions to benefit there nation due to being puppets controlled by the banking elite. Ending the fed and having the money printed through the nation treasury, bring home troops from iraq and afghanistan day, shutting down the IRS and Homeland security, which are a few of his considered radical view points, in my opinion would benefit the U.S more than hurt it.

Hey, I got a name for you for someone that, if he does the right thing may have a good shot at doing some good in the nation.

Chris Christie. The more I read about what he's doing, the more I like him.

A third party would actually hurt the Republicans since they need all the independents to beat Obama. It's going to be hard to beat him, I haven't seen anyone yet that can can stand up to him.

He really is the George Bush of the Democratic party.  Wildly plummeting in the polls... should be easy to take out... but you've got nobody that can run that can beat him.

My guess is the only shot a Republican would have would be to ironically pull an Obama and put up Scott Brown.

I would have bet a million dollars that GW would have lost in 2004, his polls were terrible, but once time came to vote, people vote like they do in American IDOL.

The Republican needs a Star that is not FROM Alaska,,and they need to start hyping him/her now. I have feeling the worst has passed for Obama, he will not rest, the man knows how to campaingn and whoever goes against him better be clean, smart and can hold the national attention.

Jon Stewart actually had a large bit about that on his show thursday. His usual long montage of media outlets all asking about if they've gotten violent yet, are the crazies coming out, and random video of whatever idiot they can find spouting gibberish. Then he had his "senior teaparty analyst" complaining that nobody has called him a nigger yet, and he doesn't have time to ask them about the issues because as soon as he does some other network will scoop him on a guy dressed as hitler shitting into his own hand.

Fox news of course has latched onto this, but only to create their own hypocritical narrative (which jon stewart also called them out on, he's really not a political satirist he's a media satirist). Fox news is sympathetic to the tea party movement but only because they want to paint it as the enemy of democrats and liberals, still obfuscating  the facts to create their own narrative failing to show how most of the movement also hates the republicans. The media doesn't cover stories, it manufactures them. It's alot more profitable that way.