Where's the Tea Party At?

[Bowfinger]

They're still out there, obviously, but they're not getting the coverage from Faux that provided visibility & impetus. It's always been a bandwagon deal, a lot more noise than substance, symptomatic of a leadership having run off the end of the script. It's also a symptom of increasing denial among the base, the true believers, of the mental gymnastics required to keep believing.

The Bush Admin was, in many respects, the zenith of applied Repub policy. Now that we endure the consequences, they simply refuse to recognize cause & effect. The bank bailout & their attitude about it epitomize denial.

Remember, too, that the RNC needed something like the Tea Party in 2010. The Republican brand had become toxic thanks to Bush. The RNC needed to repackage the ideology into something they could sell more easily. The Tea Party filled the bill, pretending they were different from those "bad Republicans". It was a classic bait and switch ... and it worked.

 

[SagaLore]

Where they at?

Drinking tea, duh.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

more like Koch brand Kool-aid

Is that as strong as Soros brand kool-aid?

 

[kage69]

I think they finally got tired of being laughed at, and that coincided with even other republicans realizing what a fabrication their "movement" was, so the result was them taking their toys out of the sandbox and going home.

Anything with Sarah Palin attached is doomed to fail as well.

 

[monovillage]

I think they finally got tired of being laughed at, and that coincided with even other republicans realizing what a fabrication their "movement" was, so the result was them taking their toys out of the sandbox and going home.

Anything with Sarah Palin attached is doomed to fail as well.

I can tell you recommend NIKE

 

[Ausm]

They are sitting at home hating Obama.

+1 They want the black man out!

 

[Ausm]

Is that as strong as Soros brand kool-aid?

Umm the amount of money Soros pumps into elections is a fraction of what the Kochtopus spends.