Why don't we strip the Tea Part down to what it REALLY means?

[hal2kilo]

Frankly, I'd love to see the whole fucking things collapse. Once people see REAL drama, as in half the country starving to death, maybe they'll give up on the fake drama.

Yet another person who'd rather distroy this country than work to make it better. Are you squandering your savings in your mattress also so that you can also destroy this economy to prove your ideology over reality religion.


I hoped the market goes up 50% by the end of this year. I bet you guys won't be able to sit on your hands and watch it go by.

 

[jackschmittusa]

I agree that the tea party is a manufactured entity. Showcased and declared legitimate by Fox, financed quietly with corporate money, and gleefully fostered by the Republicans as a free weapon against the Democrats.

Many of them are the same "single issue" voters that Rove exploited so successfully, gave them nothing, and left them wanting. Some seem to have realized that they were used and abused and are thrilled to think that someone is actually listening now.

Too many of them are ignorant of issues beyond what their favorite one is though and are easily lead to believe a lot of BS. Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I see clips of them being asked questions by reporters and their responses mark them as ignorant or blatantly stupid.

Accepting ignorant nut-jobs and liars like Palin and Bachman as heroes marks them as dangerous in my opinion (both of whom I consider turds in the punchbowl of politics).

The Republicans are soon to find out that these people can bite them on the ass as well as the Democrats. Once that realization sets in, they will just become a footnote of history.

 

[Lemon law]

Fox News gave a giant audience and plenty of airplay to a handful of protesters who carried the Fox agenda. Fox News organized early Tea Parties. Republican politicians consistently showed up at these astroturf rallies. The Tea Parties get out the vote for the Republicans while giving the Republicans some distance so the Reps don't have to accept responsibility for the worst of the ranting and raving. When the Republican Party or Fox decide the Tea Party is no longer useful, it will wither. No more airplay, no more candidate addresses. The Tea Party: just another tool in the establishment toolbox.

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While I have to agree the IronWing history is partially accurate, but if the larger GOP created the tea party to create a situation where the GOP does not have to accept responsibility for the worst of tea party rantings, it may have totally backfired on the GOP.

Because not only is it forcing mainstream GOP candidates so far to the right, that many end up losing to democrats in strongly GOP leaning districts, the tea party(s) are often running their own independent set of candidates which ends up splitting the GOP votes in various districts.

But I do wonder if IronWing is correct in saying, the GOP, after creating a new Frankenstein monster endowed with life and freewill, can simply and effortlessly kill what it created?

Somewhat the unanswered question about to be tested in the general election of 11/2010, is will the tea parties be a GOP net asset or liability. So far, the number of tests have been small, and in some cases the GOP has been helped, in other cases the GOP has been hurt, and in one case, the tea parties caused losing a GOP safe seat with a 150 year history.

We can bet both the dems and the repubs will use advanced statistical analysis techniques to try to tease out the answer to that tea party question, and it may have vast implications for who the R's run for POTUS in 2012. If the tea parties are a net asset to the GOP, watch Sarah Palin futures rise, if the tea parties are a net liability, watch the GOP try to muzzle Palin while promoting moderates.

 

[khon]

The Tea Parties are simply unfocussed rage resulting from the economic downturn. Or at least that's what they started out as, since then different people have done their best to direct the mob in whatever direction suits their purposes.

It was a grass roots movement, but it got corrupted, and most of the people in it have yet to figure out that they've become pawns.