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The Whig Party sounds more like Progressives! It's Progressives who want the Congress to represent the People, who want Clean Energy Programs to modernize USA and bring new job growth, and to stop jobs from going overseas!
I can't speak for everyone but I am a Modern Whig. With that said there are many Christian Right people in the Tea Party. Personally I don't hold with that as I am more of a Fiscal Conservative Classical Libertarian. The basic premise of the Tea Party is for Fiscal responsibility and transparency. The Tea Party has the right core as long as they don't evolve outside that I'm happy to be a part.
I don't think that The Tea Party as a whole is classed with my same social views. The shared interest is only fiscal. So I would say no. Since the Tea Party isn't a "political Party" there are many different social views
Honestly? I think the tea party is simply taking over the republican party. They aren't running candidates successfully on a third party platform, but they are within the existing structure. If they control the message and the platform of the R's....well....then they ARE the R's.
The Whigs? From an historical perspective that dog won't hunt. If you are merely making a comparison based soley on opposition to the Democrats I suppose it works, somewhat, but the Whigs were hardly the party of the average American. The latter is what the TEA movement is standing on. TEA folks are not exactly steeped in a feeling of aristocracy, as the Whigs were, so I have to go with a previous poster who made the 'progressives' out to be more in tune with the Whigs. Progressives wrap themselves in a mantle of intellectual aristocracy, and not one of monetary wealth, but the analogy works, for me anyway.
Tea Party=GOP, the name is simply an effort at rebranding. To pretend anything otherwise is foolish.
The whole teabagger movement is just a front for the same old Republican party.
There were primarily independents at the last tea party rally I went to in Vermont. Some dems too. The GOP is trying to take control of the tea party but the tea party is at its heart not for either party.
There were primarily independents at the last tea party rally I went to in Vermont. Some dems too. The GOP is trying to take control of the tea party but the tea party is at its heart not for either party.
That is simply incorrect. The Tea Party is overwhelmingly Republican. Even if participants call themselves "independent," they are more likely than not very conservative voters. Is there even one Democratic candidate anywhere that Tea Partiers are backing? I haven't heard of any. There are plenty of Republicans the Tea Party backs, though.
Several people have already said it--the Tea Party is predominantly composed of angry Republicans.
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