Republicans: Tea-Party and not Tea Party

[derspiess]

Somebody tell Hansy I want my old party back.

COME AND TAKE IT

[Sheilbh]

I don't understand. Didn't the Tea Party get smacked down in the last election? If they are the dominant type of Republican, why didn't more Tea Party candidates get elected / stick around?  Or is the notion that Dems outnumber the Tea Party repubs in key places so it doesn't matter?

They got smacked down by Democrats and everyone else. My impression was that they won a significant number of primaries at the general they won some and lost others, and that they won a large number of safe-ish House seats. When they were against fellow Republicans, or being voted on by them, they did well. Not so much when they faced the general electorate and real opponents.

[katmai]

Only if it is from Derspicy cold, dead hands.

[CountDeMoney]

Somebody tell Hansy I want my old party back.

COME AND TAKE IT

Now see, that's not the way to go.  That's not right, man.

[garbon]

Hey they let me in.

[Razgovory]

...it is likely that the Tea Party will continue to be a major, often dominant, force within the Republican Party.

And thus it is likely that there will be no Republican President for years to come?

No.  The Tea Party was a populist backlash.  They were only vaguely and weakly "for" things, but they were specifically and strongly "against" things.  I imagine one of their major beefs with the GOP was that it wasn't doing enough to stop Obama.  Rest assured they will be voting for a Republican Presidential canidate next time around, if only to vote against a Democrat.

[derspiess]

I also welcome GOProud.

[Neil]

Somebody tell Hansy I want my old party back.

The problem is that the electorate is too stupid, and the Republicans are too sophisticated.  The Tea Party offers Republican voters simple, hateful solutions that they can understand.

[CountDeMoney]

The problem is that the electorate is too stupid, and the Republicans are too sophisticated.  The Tea Party offers Republican voters simple, hateful solutions that they can understand.

Well, until they figure it out, I'm playing against them.

See, that's what these monkeys around here misunderstand about me:  it's not that I'm pro-Democrat, I'm staunchly anti-Republican.  The fact that my anti-Republicanism seems to align with the modern Democrats is a coincidence.

But until I get back the party I was the fucking elected Vice Chairman of in my campus College Republicans (1989-1990) from the fetus fuckers, Libertariantards and the fruitcake Hansylogues, I will continue to work against it and root for all the black people, unions, women, Jews and gays that annoy the shit out of them until they finally come around, Gerald Fucking Ford style.

[garbon]

Ah that's cool. You stand for nothing but trying to make sure one side doesn't win.

[CountDeMoney]

I didn't leave the Republican Party, it left me.

[katmai]

Well can you blame them, just look at you!

[garbon]

Just the kind of motivation you'd expect to hear from a petulant child. That's all.

[CountDeMoney]

It keeps me warm at night.

[Ed Anger]

I was going to post hitler as my favorite kind of republican.