Is the Tea Party over?

[mercury14]

I think it is. I'm sure it will trundle along in a smouldering heap for a while longer but it's been vanquished. Its brand is in shambles and more Americans have a negative view of it than a positive one. The Tea Party has cost the Republicans five Senate seats at this point. I won't call it a cancer because there are still a good number of Tea people in the House (minus a couple now) but I just don't see the movement as a net positive in 2012. Thoughts?

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

i hope so..

 

[rosco rathbone]

I don't think we can know that until the 2014 elections.

 

[cjh]

Nope.

I think it is contained, though.

Unless it starts recruiting young Latinos and women who don't like the state regulating their reproductive choices.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

You pose the wrong question. The real question is, HOW IN HELL DOES OBAMA KEEP THE LIGHTS 'ON' IN THE NEXT 4 YEARS?

If he keeps borrowing money at the present rate soon enough he runs outta cash to pay the interest on the debt. If he prints money the resulting inflation harms his coalition of Niggaz, Spics, Perfessers, Union goldbricks, and baby mamas.

 

[CandiCame]

I thought that they were gone already. They haven't done anything noteworthy in a long time, have they? Is it one of those things where they're still around, but it's now a bunch of old men funding pancake breakfasts?

 

[RobDownSouth]

I don't think so.

The "bitter white male with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement" demographic will always vote, even though their numbers shrink with each election.

They'll be disproportionately represented in the off-presidential year elections, so they'll make a "comeback" in 2014, just as they did in 2010.

Let's all hope it's too little, too late.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I don't think so.

The "bitter white male with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement" demographic will always vote, even though their numbers shrink with each election.

They'll be disproportionately represented in the off-presidential year elections, so they'll make a "comeback" in 2014, just as they did in 2010.

Let's all hope it's too little, too late.

The spin this morning is that the Ryan Plan has a mandate, since Teapublican congressmen backing it were mostly re-elected.

 

[loquere]

Just in mass depression.

 

[Adre]

They may continue to help Senate Democrats

 

[Pookie]

I don't think so.

The "bitter white male with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement" demographic will always vote, even though their numbers shrink with each election.

They'll be disproportionately represented in the off-presidential year elections, so they'll make a "comeback" in 2014, just as they did in 2010.

Let's all hope it's too little, too late.

There are some bitter feelings out there ...

 

[bronzeage]

I don't think so.

The "bitter white male with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement" demographic will always vote, even though their numbers shrink with each election.

They'll be disproportionately represented in the off-presidential year elections, so they'll make a "comeback" in 2014, just as they did in 2010.

Let's all hope it's too little, too late.

The Teaparty is basically a NGO wealth redistribution system. Billionaires spread money among white middle class voters in the hope that an increasing share of a shrinking quantity will be enough give them one last power grab.

In 2016, look for the Koch brothers to spend money on the Tisane party, which will try to convince Hispanic voters that the GOP thinks they are just as good as any second generation Cuban.

 

[phrodeau]

It's alive!

 

[Wok]

I think it is. I'm sure it will trundle along in a smouldering heap for a while longer but it's been vanquished. Its brand is in shambles and more Americans have a negative view of it than a positive one. The Tea Party has cost the Republicans five Senate seats at this point. I won't call it a cancer because there are still a good number of Tea people in the House (minus a couple now) but I just don't see the movement as a net positive in 2012. Thoughts?

No. I suspect it will grow stronger.

 

[Adre]

Two more years for CrazyEyes!

 

[mercury14]

The spin this morning is that the Ryan Plan has a mandate, since Teapublican congressmen backing it were mostly re-elected.

Yeah I saw that as well. Obama won and the Dems gained in the Senate and House... which somehow translates into a Republican mandate.

 

[Wok]

It's alive!

big ass pic of Bachmann

lol, she holds on to the seat. Thanks for the reminder to check on it.

 

[killallhippies]

No. I suspect it will grow stronger.

judging from what i heard last night i wouldn't be surprised if you're right.

 

[Pookie]

judging from what i heard last night i wouldn't be surprised if you're right.

The South will rise again!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Yeah I saw that as well. Obama won and the Dems gained in the Senate and House... which somehow translates into a Republican mandate.

Krauthamer moved the goalposts this morning, stating essentially that without older white male votes, and more specifically older conservative Catholic white male votes, no president is able to claim a "mandate".

The man is lost in the 1980s.

 

[killallhippies]

The South will rise again!

the south makes me sad. they got good drugs, hot chicks and nice weather, but mostly they vote like morons and for some reason they really think they take their religion seriously even though they really don't. silly fuckers. still, i'd move back if it was feasible. i'm a sucker for politeness and it's fun there when it snows. also, seriously, i got some of the best weed there. i miss that shit.