Rand is no longer the frontrunner for the Senate seat from Kentucky.
According to Public Policy Polling, he's now tied at 43% with his Democratic opponent Jim Conway Business Insider Magazine reports.
Here's the most devastating part:
The more Kentucky voters get to know Rand Paul, the less they like him. When PPP first polled the race in December Paul's favorability was a +3 spread at 26/23. By May it was a 7 spread at 28/35. Now it's a 8 spread at 34/42. The national media attention Paul has received has hurt his cause with voters in the state- 38% say it has made them less likely to support Paul while 29% say it has made them more inclined to vote for him and 33% say it hasn't had an impact on their attitude toward Paul one way or the other.
Seems wherever Teabaggers go, they land their candidates in hot water - after which the tea bags are useless.
Why isn't Rand surging? Perhaps he stumbled a bit with his impolitic answer regarding the Civil Rights Amendment (he decline to say whether the government should enforce integration at the level of private institutions), and his comments about how the unemployed should just get lower-paying jobs may not have gone over well, either.
The business community, despite their squawking about financial reform, know that all the phony baloney rhetoric, the whining about debt and deficits REPUBLICANS created with one unfunded tax cut and mandate while at the same time nearly DOUBLING the national debt! - All by their lonesomes to the tune of $1.25 Trillion a year:
- $720 Billion debt service
- $230 Billion Bush income tax cut for fat cats
- $180 Billion Medicare Part D (and rising annually)
- $120 Billion Capitol Gains tax cuts
adds up to (GASP!):
the deficit left on President Obama's doorstep January 20, 2009! Add in falling revenues because of the recession, and there you have it ..
Amazing, isn't it? Oh, but Republicans whine .. whine ... whine. Need some cheese with that whine, Republicans?
Business people know what's going on:
This will appall people, but if you're an investor, and your interest is the short-to-medium term, you should probably welcome the bloom coming off the tea party rose. Yes, we probably need to do something severe about the deficit, but if you own stocks, you want stimulus and spending. You don't want to see demand retrenchment.
Soak, Teabags, soak! Go Sarah, Go!! Endorse more candidates! We love you Sarah! (snark)
Love this pic. Sums up the Tea Party movement better than I could:
For some more fun "Teabonics" signs check out these
We should trust THESE people to pick competent leadership?
VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! Save us from the "MORANS"! LOL
Some people SHOULD be denied the "Pubic Option" :
Maybe, Maaaaaaybe these Americans will learn English one day! LOL:
Teabagger probably doesn't know what the Boston Tea Party was protesting. (Hint, right wingers: Monopoly of the economy by the British East India/Tea Company)</br</br>
Students most likely to be better spellers than the Teabag Queen herself:
There are literally thousands of signs like these - metaphorically speaking, signs we should let these folks or their candidates anywhere near Congress.
Vote in the fall