Tea Party Tiff

[Basso]

You are making the mistake of assuming republican party = tea party. The tea party doesn't have a tiff, but some of the establishment republicans aren't fond of the tea party. Still, the tea party recognized it had to hitch its horse to dems or reps to move their agenda, and the dems didn't seem at all interested. Now the tea party is reminding the establishment republicans that the "republicans" aren't who won this election, it was cut spending/deficit/debt minded folks who expect the reps to listen or suffer a similar fate. I don't see how this letter is the least bit surprising. I'd be more surprised if it hadn't been sent.

[HatCapitol]

TDA's new avatar is too freakishly huge. I'd be afraid of suffocating if I messed around in those things.

[Len Myers]

Originally Posted by Omikron

I could have titled it "Tea Party Pillow Fight" and put Kristi Noem up against Sarah Palin.

Dana Loesch works just fine, thank you. Not that there's anything wrong with Kristi...

[erosewater]

Originally Posted by HatCapitol

TDA's new avatar is too freakishly huge. I'd be afraid of suffocating if I messed around in those things.

Where is the mancard police?

[erosewater]

Originally Posted by Len Myers

Dana Loesch works just fine, thank you.

(google image searches Dana Loesch)

(nods head and thinks yeah I'd tap that)

I thought Omikron's avatar was Natalie Imbruglia

(google image searches Natalie Imbruglia, hits control-P and heads to bathroom)

[Eimon Gnome]

Originally Posted by Omikron

Show me.

co-opted might be overstating it.

But a casual observation indicates that those Tea PArty candidates that were successful - even in the primaries - had considerable ground support from the social conservatives. You can like em or hate em, but you can't ignore the fact that the Christian Right is well funded and very adept at getting out the vote.

[Dr T Non-Fan]

Originally Posted by Len Myers

Still, it's a bit early to tell the elected tea party people what they need to do. They don't even take office until January.

You don't think these same people are getting hit on by the fundamentalists?

[homeys66]

Meh, the GOP has like 2 factions...the Dems have like 18. I think the GOP will survive the infighting. The libertarians took a back seat for 8 years of Bush, so sorry Crristian Right.

[notreallyme]

Originally Posted by Eimon Gnome

co-opted might be overstating it.

But a casual observation indicates that those Tea PArty candidates that were successful - even in the primaries - had considerable ground support from the social conservatives. You can like em or hate em, but you can't ignore the fact that the Christian Right is well funded and very adept at getting out the vote.

Yeah but who else is the RR going to vote for? Dems?

If the recently elected R's start drafting an agenda of social conservatism the Tea Partiers aren't afraid to vote for a Dem (hopefully at least a semi-fiscally conservative one) that is enough to tip the scales.

45% that would never vote Dem AND
45% that would never vote Rep puts the other
10% in a very nice position.

[Len Myers]

Originally Posted by Eimon Gnome

co-opted might be overstating it.

But a casual observation indicates that those Tea PArty candidates that were successful - even in the primaries - had considerable ground support from the social conservatives. You can like em or hate em, but you can't ignore the fact that the Christian Right is well funded and very adept at getting out the vote.

At the moment, the focus is on keeping body and soul together. Work, food, shelter, savings, good governance, that sort of thing. Even for the Christian right.