The future of the Tea Party in the 2nd Obama term

[Not Me]

They have been quiet lately, participating in the shakeup of the etch-a-sketch. Right now, they just want a Romney win.
But what will the election say about their future?
Will there be a return of more moderate Republicans, sending what's left of the TP back into the woodwork?
Or will they double down, and obstruct even more?

[cthulu2016]

1. Romney's loss will be seen as the repudiation of moderation.

The teabaggers will reassert control.

[mac56]

3. Exactly.

Their mantra will be that he wasn't conservative enough. Two possible outcomes: the GOP will tack further and further right and stay there, further alienating moderates. Or the party will splinter and the teabillies will go it on their own. Interesting times ahead.

[-LOKI -BAD FOR YA]

17. yes both scenario are good for our party,and limiting the 2016 race,very interesting n\t

[SubgeniusHasSlack]

5. I respectfully disagree.

The romnocalypse will implode the teabagiban run republickcon party.

The rotund governor of New Jersey sees this clearly and is already running to be the leader of the moderate, bipartisan, not completely insane remnant of the republickcon party, that will be all that remains after The President's landslide victory.

[randome]

8. I see your scenario as more likely.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

9. +1.... I see it the same way...

many teabagers will lose seats this year.

[pampango]

16. If the tea party causes republicans to lose senate races in Indiana and Missouri which they thought

were safe races, the tea party will have some 'splaining to do.

[democrat_patriot]

2. Double down. It's in their nature. They need attention.

It's up to Boehner to reign them in, but he not very strong.

[Cigar11]

4. They will ...

have another meeting on Inauguration Day to plan another 4 years of Obstruction.

Getting beat by a Black Man twice in a row is going to sting something awful.

[AlinPA]

6. Look for them to replace Boehner with a real teabagger, not just a teabagger wannabe.

McConnell will probably go with DeMint replacing him.

[Kolesar]

7. A blank slate gopper is going to win our open congressional seat

And he (David Joyce) is going to shift to the hard right so that the TPs don't annihilate him in the primary in two years. It is a swing district, but Joyce is getting the benefit of all the money and newspaper endorsements that only a republican gets.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Well, With No Reelection To Worry About. . .

. . .Obama should aggressively and open repudiate their positions and point out their stupidity.

The one thing that bugs me most about the teabaggers is that they don't understand the original Tea Party Patriots (and no, this gang are not patriots) weren't complaining about taxes.

They were complaining about paying taxes to a country they didn't live in. (This doesn't apply to teabaggers.)

They were complaining about paying taxes to a country that their families didn't live in for 30 to 150 years in a era where one being 2500 miles away might as well have been Mars. So, they had no connection to England, really. (Also, doesn't apply to teabaggers.)

And, they were complaining about having no right to choose the representatives who were legislatively imposing these taxes.

These idiots can vote in any election they choose for the folks who represent them in their own country.

But, truth is all these buffoons care about are taxes. And, all they care about is HOW MUCH OF MINE, MINE, MINE IS BEING ASKED OF THEM!

They're historically ignorant, profoundly selfish, and macroeconoimcally clueless. Those shortcomings need to be shouted once Obama is never again running for office.

[GoneOffShore]

11. Double down and go for the full crazy.

We've only begun to see the batshit and poo flinging.

[sadbear]

12. As long as the President is black, there will be a tea party.

[ecstatic]

13. I think it's up to us to say, ENOUGH! Write, call, demand

that they stop obstructing us. March. Call them out when they cut embassy security and FEMA. Raise hell when they restrict women's rights. My congressperson is not a teabagger, but I will write him to let him know he has to tell his colleagues to stop!

[Hugabear]

14. Tea Party will evolve into the Tea Party Militia

Remember those "2nd Amendment remedies" they so openly bragged about?

[Erose999]

15. The whole "tea party" phenomonon is really just racism. I think the movement will go away in Obama's

2nd term though, as the media will pretty much stop paying any attention to them and their corporate financiers will find new and more effective ways to fuck America. And the ones who cling to it will be so desperate and crazy it will taint the brand forever. Because thats all the "Tea Party" as it exists today ever was really, just a "brand" for racism and prejudice.

[RomneyLies]

18. Even becore the inauguration

One or two teabaggers will object to the reading of the electoral votes on the grounds that Barack Obama is "ineligible".

[bama_blue_dot]

19. I think it all depends on how many seats the Democrats

can take back.. I don't see the dems taking over the house, but if they come close to it, I don't see how the Republicans can let the Teabaggers rule their party.. After 2010 they had immense power because they had such massive numbers in the house.. Let's hope the dems can come close..