Pic Of The Moment: The Tea Party Is Over: Good News Or Bad News For GOP?

[EarlG]

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[fredamae]

1. Too early to really tell, imo

Are they diminishing? Or has the GOP as a whole given in and the koch libertarian minded TP Ideology is the status quo? Or has it simply driven the crazies underground for awhile? Remember the Kochs are the money behind the curtain--they don't just "go away" - they try something different. They have time---it's taken them 30+ years since Reagan to get this far.
Or (my hope) is that the Tea Party is awakening and is discovering that while we Do have some differences as a whole--we agree on more issues than not in the Bigger Picture.
Time for Country to come together and tell this corporatized/privatized corrupted congress to kiss our collective asses, imo....

[merrily]

3. "Time for Country to come together and tell this corporatized/privatized corrupted congress to kiss

our collective asses." Sure is. Rather, it's about 20 years past time.

[merrily]

2. Astroturf doesn't take root, nor does it grow.

Sooner or later, though, it does wear out.

Nonetheless, we are stuck with Rubio and Paul, among others.

[Livluvgrow]

4. Nothing changed

We need to quit with this meme. They are all ideologues who when given the opportunity will always vote identically. We need to stop pretending that there is some moderate wing of the republicans. Tea party offers the same republican outcomes different people collecting the paycheck.

[LoisB]

16. Totally agree.

[valerief]

5. What was the biggest factor?

Election fraud?
--Bought off poll workers, law enforcement, etc.
--More binary hijinks
Teabaggers not voting?
--Because they're mad
--Because they're now Dems since they've gotten ACA
--Because they've died off
Other?

[yallerdawg]

6. Bad news for Democrats?

Now that the real Republican base has come back, traditional mainstream and incumbent Republicans are going to be very very very well financed through November.

If money really does determine elections, this November we should see the highest dollar per vote ever turned out!

[R Merm]

7. Nice in theory

But I did not see any difference in views between the Establishment Repub and the Tea Party challengers. They were all out there saying the same stupid shit.

[Helen Borg]

8. Disgruntled Tea Party members...

They are a wild card. This could be interesting.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. No real change. When all is said and done, come November. . .

. . .the teabaggers will hold their noses and vote Republican. Where else can they go?

[AtheistCrusader]

12. They can stay home in droves.

[totodeinhere]

10. It's a conundrum for the Republicans. They want nominees who at least have the

appearance of being a bit more moderate than the average Tea Party candidate hoping that this will help them with more moderate voters. But at the same time if they are going to win elections in some places they need to keep the loyalty of Tea Party voters. If Tea Party loyalists stay home from the polls then the Republicans lose. Yet hard core Tea Party candidates cannot win general elections. Only time will tell how this shakes out.

[pstokely]

14. either way, Dems need to GOTV

nt

[AtheistCrusader]

11. I think this is the key to those gerrymandering fucks losing the house.

[Jack Rabbit]

13. Neither good nor bad for the GOP

In the long run, the GOP is going down with or without the Tea Party.

[certainot]

15. the tea party label may slide into the sewer but the underlying problem is

still there - the unchallenged talk radio repetition that creates most of their alternative reality

the tea party is the talk radio party and the talk radio gods will help most of them rationalize voting for the est republicans because at least their not commie liberals.

[tanyev]

17. Nothing left but the dregs.

[DireStrike]

18. I wonder what the armed lunatics will do when they feel that they have no voice in government?

The establishment has shown that it's still strong enough to bat aside challenges to its authority.

But will the tea partiers accept that?

[GETPLANING]

19. Hopefully, temporary insanity is coming to an end

[MADem]

20. Gee, was Mitch pounding the desk with his shoe when he made that "crushing" pronouncement?

[JohnnyRingo]

21. Ain't it the truth?

Hilarious. You outdid yourself on this one!

[Cha]

22. Didn't we have a quote not too long ago from john boner saying they're not so different

from the teabaggers?

GOTV2014 Alison Lundergan Grimes!

Thank you, EarlG

[smallcat88]

23. Good news for the country

The more they prove their craziness, the less appealing they are to centrist voters. Crazy/stupid people are born into every generation, they may get their 15 minutes now and then but sooner or later they fade away. I hope!

[loudsue]

24. No. They're just cranking up big time in north carolina.

This place is crawling with tea party cheerleaders.

[blkmusclmachine]

25. The Tea Nutters pulled BOTH Parties to the Hard Right, and damaged DEMS prospects since the last mid

term. I'd call that a WIN for them!

[Major Hogwash]

26. Not so fast! Here in Idaho the incumbent Republican Governor only got 51% of the vote!!

Governor Butch Otter won his primary, but it was not a great, decisive win.

Harley Brown, the self-proclaimed "proverbial turd in a punchbowl" received 3% of the votes and Hayes even wound up receiving 2% of the votes cast in a Republican closed primary election.

Look for there to be a Democratic Governor next January in Idaho.
The people have spoken, they don't want Otter to be returned to the office of governor for a 3rd term.
They have had enough of his kind of bs.

[Laelth]

28. I certainly hope you are right. That would be good news, indeed. n/t

-Laelth

[Initech]

27. The GOP is experiencing a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome.

[DFW]

29. A risky assumption, if you ask me

Deadly, infectious bacteria mutate, and if an antibiotic is found short term, it can still remain in the background and come back to wreak more damage in another form.

The Teabaggers have served a purpose, and don't forget they have been heavily financed by the Kochs--and very cleverly so, sometimes to the point where the teabaggers themselves didn't even know where their financing was coming from.

They still serve a purpose, and as long as big Republican money sees an advantage in their existence, they will be there--causing big infections in places where the conditions are right, and lurking in the background, mutating, but not gone, where the "antibiotic" of Republican "moderation," to the extent that anyone still believes in such a thing, has pushed them into the background. Like fungi, they will still thrive in dark, dank places. They are NOT gone, and they are not even unwelcome in the Republican Party. If muting their shrillness will win them a few more elections, they'll shut up and smile for the cameras, but they are not gone, and they still ARE the GOP. Don't think that reason has won the day over there. It hasn't.

[YOHABLO]

30. Perhaps the establishment R's know they can't win with a Tea Bag ticket .. Too soon to tell.

I agree with the statement above .. that the establishment R's are just parroting the same ole bull as the Tea baggers