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Originally Posted by joshgirls
the republican party is terminally ill: it betrays its core values. it stands for balanced budgets, but doubled the national debt. it stands for individual liberties, but opposes choice & embraces totalitarianism under the ironic guise of the patriot act. They fucked up so fiercely, the center will not return to their brand name.
It will take a number of years, & most likely it will be ignited by the next financial crisis that is caused by the bankruptcy of the bloated federal government. But if the tea party plays its cards right, they'll be running DC after Obamacare & the baby boomers drive us over the cliff.
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It has nothing to do with what they stand for (or claim to stand for) or what they actually do when they are in power. It has everything to do with that they can convince people they stand for.
Whenever they are not in power the republicans run on the ticket and promise that they want to shrink the government, lower taxes and give people more personal freedom. Of course when they win they do none of that. Even having never actually done what they claim, they continue to run on that platform and often win using it. They are able to convince the same people over and over again that this time it will be different and it works.
To me the Tea Party is now the new base of the republican party. They have taken over the Tea Party and have embraced angry white America because they have lost their death grip on the Evangelicals. They still have roots with the christian right, but they aren't has strong as they once were save for a few candidates like Palin and Huckabee. Without being able to count on those people they have reached out to a new crowd. There is a reason they don't denounce the Birthers or the people who think Obama is a Muslim. They want their vote in the fall.
While some of the Tea Party members will vote independent and will stand by what they believe, come this fall most of them will vote republican because they will be convinced that the republican candidates are better than nothing. What the party does between now and 2012 is where they can make their name. If they work hard to get Tea Party members elected to local and state positions, form a solid core leadership and fund raise like mad, they could make some noise. Otherwise they are just republicans with a different name.