Two Years from Now, Where Will the Tea Baggers Be??

[DemocracyInaction]

The GOP can't find a "nominee". Tea Baggers have pushed successfully on Patriot Act and budget in the House the last week - Boehner couldn't control them. Boehner needs to "drown them" in the proverbial bathtub soon or the GOP will look like a ship of fools without an admiral. Tea Party is fragmented and some of their pets are trying to pretend they don't exist. People are going to be hurt and seniors scared crapless by 2012. I do not see more people "joining" the Tea Pary but a lot floating away in confusion and not knowing where to turn their frustrations next. Tea bags after use are thrown in the garbage. Ironically, they might just be out in the "square" like the rest of us yelling for the goddamn corrupt fat cats to "get the hell out".

[Taverner]

1. They are awaiting the rise of Esther

And when she does arise, golly youbetchya she'll be as loony as them

[RagAss]

2. 50% of them will be pushing up daisies with both hands !

[Mnemosyne]

3. Who?

:shrug:

I hope anyway! :rofl::hi:

[dipsydoodle]

4. Fortune tellers will be reading them in teacups.

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[CAG]

5. Their social security and medicare funded nursing homes

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[LostHighway]

7. I don't know where they'll be, but there's a video out there that..

Sums up my prediction of what their policies will likely resemble:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbB1s7TZUQk

Which is a complicated put on by a Yugoslav group....

It would take a long time to explain.

[NNN0LHI]

8. They will have reverted back to the Minutemen by then

[Lint Head]

9. Hopefully, embarassed.

[Revolution7]

10. Voters will wake up and realize how s***ty the tea actually tastes

Every moderate and undecided who voted "R" this past election will soon regret that vote bitterly.

A GOP-controlled house is without any doubt going to do something to p**s off mainstream voters. I cringed before the tea-baggers were even sworn in with promises of "Bush-Era policies"

It's a good thing though. The silver-lining is that they will ensure a solid Democrat voter turn-out in '12.

[calimary]

11. In hell, I hope!

[Skip_In_Boulder]

12. Hopefully they will be in the dustbin of history.

St. Sarah is already starting to look like her 15 minutes may be about up.

[Populist_Prole]

13. Hard to say, but I'll bet they will be fewer in numbers due to biology

Since most seem to be at the very upper end of the age scale. While that in itself isn't a watershed, consider many baggers are obese and hot headed. Not a good combo. Diabetes, hypertension. Those that aren't dead or otherwise incapitated will be angrier still due to the cognitive dissonance of the collapsing economy and their deliberate inability to connect the dots to the plutocrats robbing them and us blind.

[customerserviceguy]

14. Four years ago, we didn't have a settled-on nominee, either

Yes, there's a fight on between establishment Republicons and the tea partiers, but we have no idea how that's going to turn out. They seem to be able to get their members to the polls, and in the caucus states, that will be powerful. No doubt that next year's Republicon convention will be full of them, the Repukes have abandoned the winner-take-all situation, and even a 40% makeup in tea party sympathizers overall will mean that they will be heavily represented.

Dismiss them at your peril. They got an awful lot of their favorites in Congress, for being a movement that was less than two years old. They've still got a common enemy in the President, and establishment Republicons will go along with whoever can get nominated. It's all a matter of whether or not the mushy middle will be fooled.

[Rectangle]

15. And, they're very, very, very, very well funded!!! n/t

[customerserviceguy]

18. They are, indeed

We raised more money than they did in 2008, because the hard right was not that excited about McInsane. They'll be happy to get behind anybody the Rethugs nominate this time around.

[Golden Raisin]

16. Ask the Koch brothers.

[era veteran]

17. The compost pile of politics.

Composting away.