Tea Party: MIA, KIA or DOA ?

[JollyRoger]

RealClearPolitics - Is the Tea Party Losing Its Grip on the GOP?

[The Swede]

One can only hope, back to the trailerpark!

[Honus]

Or is it the other way around? Is the GOP losing its grip on the Tea Party? I foresee an AWS/Tea Party alliance of some sort. The Tea Party isn't going to be supporting Democrats anytime soon, but they might join with AWS, or something like it, in opposing establishment candidates from both major parties.

[Air&Road]

What an article! Boy, they really have it figured out don't they?

[kerry]

Where are the Koch brothers putting their money these days?

[JollyRoger]

Originally Posted by Honus

Or is it the other way around? Is the GOP losing its grip on the Tea Party? I foresee an AWS/Tea Party alliance of some sort. The Tea Party isn't going to be supporting Democrats anytime soon, but they might join with AWS, or something like it, in opposing establishment candidates from both major parties.

If you've ever read a Libertarian Party platform, the GOP Tp'ers are in the wrong party. They are LP through and through.

Politico thinks Gingrich is playing these guys big time:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72122.html

The grass-roots conservatives, tea partiers, evangelicals and the like who compose the base have had it with the establishment. The base is not only angry at President Barack Obama. The base wants to eat its own.

It was nice, polite Republicans, like Romney, who colluded with Democrats in expanding the federal government and who piled up the $15 trillion debt that now threatens to destroy the country. It was upstanding members of the GOP who added a new Medicare entitlement without paying for it, who created new agencies and wove myriad regulations to govern the lives of regular folk.

The base wants someone who is not polite, who is not conventional, who has the potential to grasp the established order in Washington by its cuff links and rip out its entrails.

For the same reason conservatives fell in love with blunt Herman Cain and his cigarette-puffing campaign manager, they now have eyes for Gingrich.

[chasinthesun]

Reading more INTO who the TPs really are gets you more motivated to move away from anything their involved in ,especially any candidiates they feel should get their blessing,or should I say curse.They should just deban their whole little party and start the "We Are The People " party for another slanted machine of the GOPs willingness to say anything for votes Team.

[JollyRoger]

They need to start calling this dance the GOP TP Duck and Weave:

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

I think the TP's biggest problem is they have gone so far to the right, they have gone into a part of the political spectrum where there are no good candidates, only charlatans who now how to pose for the rubes....

[Jim B.]

Originally Posted by kerry

Where are the Koch brothers putting their money these days?

Same place the country of Poland keeps their armies:


Up their sleevies.

[MTI]

From a platform view, the Tea Party, like OWS, is a one note song, which makes it hard to sing for a long period of time, let alone govern. Compromise isn't part of most movements, leaving candidates with a choice . . . commit to a single theme or get more votes from a wider electorate.

[MS Fowler]

I will be surprised if the TP doesn't have a significant influence in this election--not a controlling influence,-- but a significant one. The Repubs--whoever their candidate--needs the enthusiasm of the TP to have a chance to unseat the President.

[Jim B.]

Originally Posted by MS Fowler

I will be surprised if the TP doesn't have a significant influence in this election--not a controlling influence,-- but a significant one. The Repubs--whoever their candidate--needs the enthusiasm of the TP to have a chance to unseat the President.

They appear to be unfocused on little more than their own anger, and unwillingness to pay taxes, and seem unfocused on any concrete workable solutions to anything, and the candidates they have supported one after the other seem to be kooks and morons with nothing of value and substance to offer.

I'd suggest that with their being merely being ANTI- tax and government but without anything to PROPOSE as real solutions, around which they can coalesce, they will fade away.

There is no meaningful substance there that is visible.

[chasinthesun]

To Jim b post ,nail meets hammer!

[TwitchKitty]

Haven't heard anything about health insurance reform and the funding for the tea party is down, go figure.

Next time big money needs dupes to shout down a threat to a cash cow, something similar will mysteriously materialize.

That's the beauty of the propaganda machine, none of it is real but it can pick your pocket and most of you learn to like it.

[JollyRoger]

^ Bingo!