Tea Party divorced, then re-married the Republican Party...

[kentuck]

With the end of the Bush Presidency and the collapse of the stock market and the housing market, and the additional debt added to the already huge debt of the Bush years, many Republicans were driven to leave their Party. They started carrying signs of "Don't tread on me". They wanted no part of the loser Party of George W Bush.

The establishment of the Republican Party could see the writing on the wall. They could not afford to lose these Tea Party folks from their Party. It would be devastating. They could not win any elections without them.

So they became like their Tea Party brethren. They adopted all the insane pledges and slogans of the people with the funny hats. Those few that did not join the new Tea Party were defeated and driven from the Party.

Like a wildfire, their brand of libertarianism swept new "Republicans" into office in 2010. John Boehner became Speaker of the House and he left little doubt but that he would do the bidding of the new Tea Party members.

So they re-married but under the new vows of the new bride, the Tea Party. In order to survive, Republicans surrendered to the most extremists elements within their Party. Today, the nation struggles under the demands of these "new" Republicans.

[zbdent]

1. cracks me up ... those people who 2000-2007 said that "God gave us George W. Bush"

have distanced themselves from Dumbya ... in other words, they are acknowledging that God "f*cked up" ... but they won't admit it.

[HereSince1628]

2. The tea-partiers are basically anti-government conservo-libertarians

They are the Kochenstein monsters of politics.

If you listen to them closely, down at the grass roots level, while purporting the values of frontier yeomanship and self-reliance the tea-partiers are antiestablishmentarianists. Sarah Palin "gets this" and knows how to play it to the fullest. Don't forget that her training ground in was in the Alaska secessionist movement.

She is at her best when she is rallying radicals who are social nihilists, the anarchists of the right, and they are thrilled at the thought of cutting up organizations and power structures.

They are equally willing to destroy social programs, unions, Karl Rove, the power elite of the republican party, and their own domination by their corporate creators.

Their hero isn't Cooper's colonial frontier yeoman in the Deerslayer, it is Conan the Barbarian, the destroyer of cities.

[warrior1]

3. I agree

but what I find so funny is it was going that way like natural selection. Problem for them, it doesn't breed more haters. They will have to change or continue to lose more moderate republicans. I know they will never change. Bye republican party.