What Now For The Tea Party?

[Hot_Handz]

Originally Posted by sskink

The original Tea Party was onto something. It was more a grassroots movement focused on fiscal responsibility and rampant taxation. It stood for a messages that reasonable Americans could get behind. Then the religious nutjobs and the Koch brothers co-opted it. And now it's a liability to the entire GOP.

The GOP needs to bump these fools to the curb asap.

And so many people do not care to research that because they are too wrapped up in taking things for face value...

The original tea partiers were the same Anti-War fringe when Bush was in office! It's funny when all the left goons ask "Where were the anti-tax whiners during the Bush campaign?"...that's what they were doing.....Just, like you said, in a grassroots movement.

The ideals of the tea party are the most sensible....

[Peerage]

what about the tea party? Let them eat cake.

[Motion]

Originally Posted by hammertime33

Hopefully they keep knocking out moderate Republicans in primaries thereby setting up Democratic victories in general elections.

We keep hearing how democrats need to move to the center but how about republicans moving to the center? The Tea Party took the republican party too far to the right. The 90's republicans would be considered moderate by todays tea party republican standards.

[MG120]

Originally Posted by Motion

We keep hearing how democrats need to move to the center but how about republicans moving to the center? The Tea Party took the republican party too far to the right. The 90's republicans would be considered moderate by todays tea party republican standards.

The Tea Party didn't do this, the Tea Party was corrupted by the extreme faction of the Republican party.

What they wanted was fiscal responsibility, less taxes and smaller government.

Unfortunately, that is not what they get characterized for. Social topics were never on the agenda of the original Tea Party.