Tea Party Closely Linked to Religious Right, Poll Finds

WOW, what a revelation!

The closer the "tea" party people get to the radicals (political or religious) the more they are guilty by association and the more ridicule they bring on themselves.
Too few moderates and too many activists. This might be all well and good for campaign drama and media attention and riling up the easily emotional, but when it comes to the realities of governing, only a statesman can perform the job properly.

You actually had to do a survey to see this fact?????? LOLOLOLOL Really? How much did that cost? Send me the cash and I will tell you YES THE VERY conservative RELIGIOUS CHRISTIAN RIGHT (wrong) are TEA PARTY lovers. And yes, my polar opposites. Is my check in the mail yet? Please give us facts that are not as obvious as the nose on your face. Like running a list of names and contributions? They say small donors giving boat loads of cash to back their party. Not some dumb survey. Just sayin.

One word reply to the headline: Duh! Anyone with half a brain knows that most TP'ers are extreme Christians and watch Fox news for most/all of their information. So, again, vote Republican and get either a theocracy or idiocracy for your govt. in 2012.

This is what is very distasteful to me. I'm tired of the religious fanatics. Most hide behind their religion. There are many religions but only one God. I believe in separation of church and state. These religious extremists are anti gay anti abortion, etc. But while they are fighting with these topics they are forgetting the real problems of the economy, war, etc. Do not abort an unwanted deformed baby but kill a young man or woman in their early life in war. Now I don't like abortion either, but a woman should have the right to choose and if only they would promote birth control there would be little need for abortion. I also find most of these extreme right wingers are not really religious, they hide behind their religion to promote whatever they believe in.

jake 81% of people get theire news from cable and fox dominates cable. i havent been to a church snce i was a kid but i am a conservative. so religion has nothing to do with it. governmnet waste and unions have everything to do with it. look a what your city employees are making and you will be disgusted unless your one of them.

Yup. When the "Tea Party" movement first formed, I was interested in it. I am fiscally conservative.

But I'm also extremely socially liberal. And that is more important to me than the fiscal conservatism. So once the Tea Patry got taken over by the right-wing social conservatives, I gave up on it.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

The Tea Party fiscally responsible?
What a joke! Imagine the financial burden placed on our government if the TP's immigration policies take effect. How much do these dolts believe it will cost us to house, feed and ship several million illegal immigrants out? Even worse, imagine how decimated our transportation infrastructure will be if these knuckleheads cut more taxes used to maintain our roads and bridges. Republicans have demonstrated time and again how corrupt they are. Just imagine the damage that can be done by these ULTRA-Republicans.

The religious right is neither.

Well, who didn't know that already? Go to one of their gatherings...I have..they are racist, homophobic, anti-semetic, and any other "ism" you can think of. It was a real hate fest as only Christians can do.

Yeah....bunch of nut cases!

Think I'll invest my money on something much more stable than "I'm not a witch" pronouncements. America you have lost your collective mind.

Tea-party, republicans, religious wackos, extremist nuts, right-wing wackheads, etc.. they're all the same. The thrill of anticipating what loony pronouncement is going to fly from the loose lips of these idiots has completely worn off. Let's stop giving them an audience and give their idiotic ideology a chance to calm down and slip back into the underground where it belongs, shall we?

Soon they'll have their own TV commercial running 24/7.

"We're not possessed".

This is one of the reasons I get so angry when I hear people blast Pres. Obama. Most of these crazies have been spreading lies and did not like him from day one. No, he's not perfect, but I think he's doing a good job esp. with all the horrible problems...he said it would take years to fix, now all of a sudden it should be fixed immediately. These right wingers have done nothing but caused most of the mess. Yes you should look at all sides, we shouldn't just vote for party period, but the more I see of these Tea Partiers and right wing republicans the more I tend to stay with the Dems all the way. I'm so sick of the religion brought into every single topic. Look at the Muslims/terriorists...they are "religious"..and I'm pink with purple poka dots.

Bravebrick. I do not think America lost it's mind. I KNOW it did! :--)

boy the liberals are out in full fource today!Sounds like 1 or 2 people posting under several different names. lol! getting nervous I guess. abc news is doing their job for the left. Funny how it's the liberals that always bring up race and sexuality and aborition. The Tea Party doesn't even discuss social issues.

I love it when the majority of the posts are against the tea party/right wing someone gets on and says the posters are all posting under several different names. And the Tea Party doesn't discuss social issues? What is gay marriage and abortion? Oh boy America really has lost it.

Leftist news media is trying everything they can to stop the Tea Party. It’s going to have a paradoxical affect in many cases. I am neither white nor Christian. I’m usually very critical of the “Christian right”. I only went to one tea party rally. There was very little discussion of religion. Lots of discussion regarding free speech and more about the Second Amendment. Most of the discussion was is in regard to taxation and growing national debt.

The main reason I have never joined the Republican party is their ties to the Christian Right. After reading some of the Tea Party literature and hearing their speeches, I think this story is totally bogus. I my have to join the tea party just to give them support against attack by leftist news media.

Jake I agree. And you know I have read plenty about the Tea Party. Look at Carl Palidino? in NY running for gov. They call him crazy Carl. He owns a company and plenty of buildings and got away with paying taxes and all kinds of crazy stuff. The NY Daily News has a big spread on him today. He threatened a reporter, said his opponet Andrew Cuomo cheated on his wife and when pounced upon for proof apologized...He lies and is crooked and this is what they are running? And the woman who does vodoo? And look at Sara Palin? This is what we want in office? She couldn't even govern Alaska, she quit! Her daughter Bristol is made to be a celebrity? have a baby, the father cheats, they are off and on and got paid to be on the cover of People to let her mom know they were getting married...some role model. I know there are also nuts in the Dem Party too...look at Charlie Rangel, and they vote him in again, 80 years old and up on ethics charges. But most of the crazies seem to be coming out of the Tea Party and far right Republicans. They want to be the moral party with a gun in one hand and a bible in another.