CINO: How does the GOP square the Tea Party circle??

[HomerJS]

As I thought there are far many more conservatives in name only then people will admit. Everyone loves to talk about how conservative they are and how much we have to cut spending. One of the largest drivers of our debt in the next 10 years will be medicare and medicaid.

The Tea Party is calling the shots for the GOP but a strange thing happened on the way to the budget cutting party. 70% of Tea Party members are opposed to medicare cuts. Remember those "keep you hands of my medicare" rallys? I also saw a clip of a town meeting held by Paul Ryan. He got roughed up by his constituents.

I have no idea how Republicans are going to sqare this but I predict if the numbers hold they will run from the Ryan plan faster then the last 8 years of Bush.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2011/04/tea-partiers-dont-like-medicaid-medicare-cuts

 

[Fear No Evil]

I guess the conservatives could simply adopt Obama's plan.. wait.. what? HALIBURTON! CHENEY! PALIN!

 

[cubby1223]

The Tea Party is calling the shots for the GOP

How does anybody still take commentary like this seriously anymore?

*sigh*

Just another troll thread

 

[JSt0rm]

I guess the conservatives could simply adopt Obama's plan.. wait.. what? HALIBURTON! CHENEY! PALIN!

What the fuck is wrong with your brain.

 

[trenchfoot]

Orphans don't like to be told they're orphans even though they and everyone else knows it.

Sure, the tea party serve a purpose. But why is it that they have absolutely no chance of fielding a strong presidential candidate of their very own that can be evenly matched with Obama?

As crippled as Obama is dealing with the gigantic economic mess the repubs left him to deal with, the tea party itself cannot produce a true tea party candidate to go head to head with Obama, let alone how weak the repub front runners look. (Trump?) In this regard it's quite telling where the tea party stands...er, sits within the repub party.

They are excellent sacrificial lambs that the repubs have used and will continue to use, as the tea party has a unique enough identity to be cut off from the repubs in general with ease if their message becomes unpopular - IMO, an inevitablilty, especially since they are identified with those entities within the repub party that insists, above all, that the rich need not bear any burden whatsover in the quest to balance the national budget.

The tea party cannot stand on their own at the present. Carved out from and eagerly adopted by the repub party, they can just as easily be thrown under an elephant stampede at a whim.

That the repub party has carefully distanced themselves from the tea party in some critical and plausibly deniable ways makes it pretty obvious that the repubs have positioned the tea party for a quick jettison and are perfectly willing to disown them the moment it becomes advantageous to do it.

 

[wuliheron]

Politicians don't have to square what they say with what they do. They don't even have to keep their constituents happy. All they have to do is make the alternatives their competition espouse look worse. On the rare occasion that the shit really hits the fan they have to be capable of ducking fast.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Politicians don't have to square what they say with what they do. They don't even have to keep their constituents happy. All they have to do is make the alternatives their competition espouse look worse. On the rare occasion that the shit really hits the fan they have to be capable of ducking fast.

This democracy sploit broke my country.

 

[wuliheron]

This democracy sploit broke my country.

You can blame the snake oil salesmen all you want, but they only thrive among people who are clueless. These people don't just tolerate them, they demand such snake oil salesmen as their God given right.