Tea Party Comeuppance

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

How you ask goes a long way though. I am quite sympathetic to some of their aims.

Pete

Well that's one way of spinning the fact that you are joined at the hip with them.

[icenine]

Pete is kinda let's roll back Communism John Foster Dulles guy....
Cold War conservative type lol....I do not think he is a Tea Party guy.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Didja see Palin flippin' out last night on Fox? She almost came right out and said that the Tea Party faithful should sit out the '14 elections. Erickson at RedState was suggesting that the 'baggers donate to Cochran's democratic challenger.

My goodness, I have to say she's right. In fact, I'd advise them to sit out every election. That'll show us.

[piece-itpete]

I should shuck my Tea Party credentials and join forces with our Peace Prizin' Obomba? - not a vet either btw.

He's doing now what he wanted to do before (and obviously should've) but was shouted down by isolationists.

Like something to drink? 'Earl Grey, hot'

Pete

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

My goodness, I have to say she's right. In fact, I'd advise them to sit out every election. That'll show us.

If they are so pissed, why not separate from the Republican party?

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

If they are so pissed, why not separate from the Republican party?

Because they are the far right element in the Republican base. They are what is pulling the center further to the right. Liberal and establishment Republicans are finally pushing back. It is an internal fight. Separating would cause the TP to further lose shared campaign resources. They would have to stand entirely on their own. They are too full of extremist clowns to do that and wouldn't last very long, IMO.

Dave

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

If they are so pissed, why not separate from the Republican party?

They have nowhere to go. If they were a separate party, they'd fizzle up and die. Their only chance is to try to influence the GOP from within. They think they have far too little influence while I think they have far too much.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I should shuck my Tea Party credentials and join forces with our Peace Prizin' Obomba?

That's basically what I did in 2000.

I suddenly woke up and found that I had aligned myself with a bunch of crazies.

So I unassed the Republican Party and never looked back.

It was a first step down the long road to redemption.

There might even be hope for you Pete, but you should act now, before the window of opportunity closes on you.

But if you do, you will have to look to someone else for support.

I wouldn't trust you as far I can throw a 1958 Buick Engine block.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Because they are the far right element in the Republican base. They are what is pulling the center further to the right. Liberal and establishment Republicans are finally pushing back. It is an internal fight. Separating would cause the TP to further lose shared campaign resources. They would have to stand entirely on their own. They are too full of extremist clowns to do that and wouldn't last very long, IMO.

Dave

The thing is neither one of them can stand on their own.

They just don't have the numbers to be electorally viable.

Angry old white people are dying off like flies.

On the other hand we have a thousand new anchor babies turning 18 every day.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

The thing is neither one of them can stand on their own.

They just don't have the numbers to be electorally viable.

And that's exactly why the GOP created the Tea Party. It needed to give a home to undereducated and resentful southern whites, a group they've snuggled up to since Nixon's Southern Strategy. Were it not for this demographic, the callous rich would be a pretty small political party.