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October 26, 2009

Tea Partyers Are 'Kitchen Table Issue' Voters

Jed Babbin, Human Events

Just who are the Tea Partyers? And how far will the Republican establishment go to prevent the resurgence of Reagan conservatism? 

Those are the two questions which will decide whether the Republican Party can make a decisive comeback in the next year.

As Newt Gingrich told me in August -- at the height of the town hall uprising against Obamacare -- the Tea Partyers seem to be the same kind of people who rose up in anger to support Ross Perot in 1992. 

Perot’s “Reform Party” achieved 20% of the 1992 vote, enough to enable Democrat Bill Clinton to gain the White House.  Incumbent George H.W. Bush was seen as an ultimate Washington insider who had distanced himself too much from the policies of the president who he had served...

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