These "Tea Party" Polls Are Starting to Make Me Suspicious

Yet another poll has come out showing strength for a fictional "Tea Party":

Just how angry is the public with the country’s two leading political parties? Angry enough that the conservative, libertarian-leaning Tea Party movement is more popular than either the Democratic or the Republican parties, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

The Republican Party maintains its net-negative favorable/unfavorable rating in the poll, with 28 percent viewing it positively and 43 percent seeing it in a negative light.

For the first time in more than two years, the Democratic Party also now holds a net-negative fav/unfav, at 35-45 percent.

By comparison, the NBC/WSJ poll shows the Tea Party movement with a net-positive 41-23 percent score.

Let's remember, there is no "Tea Party". There is an activist organization that has used the Tea Party name to promote rallies around the country, but they are not a political party.

I'm beginning to become suspicious that there's a campaign underway by Dems and their supporters to encourage, with these polls, certain Republicans to abandon the party and launch a third party effort which would surely doom both Republican and Tea Party candidates in every election in which they both appear. It would guarantee Democrat victories forever.

Among my many Facebook friends are a great many people who think a third party, whether it be Libertarians, Constitution Party or something else, is the noble thing to support rather than vote for Republicans who might let you down now and then. It's a fool's errand. Third parties will not win, even if you call them "Tea Parties".

Being a noble loser is not virtuous.