WHY does the Tea Party tail wag the Republican dog? I don't get it.

[cyberpj]

They're a small, rabid part of the party that has the majority of the party scared poopless.

Why?

They're certainly not going to leave Republicans for Democrats when it comes to voting time?

I just don't get it.

[Drale]

1. Its because the tea party in capable of anything

including killing someone to get their way, and we all know how much repukes love themselves, so if they where to die that would not be good for them.

[zaj]

3. These are the sort of shameful posts that embarass me...

... ignorant, and ridiculous. Perfect fodder to embarrass DU and the left.

[Drale]

18. You don't think the Tea Party is capable of assassination?

The baggers you see on TV are only a small loud party of the "movement" the extremely dangerous people do not want to be seen on TV.

[zaj]

21. As a collective group? Not remotely.

Are there some nuts in the group who are? Sure. It doesn't help to make such a broad assertion about such a narrow group.

[Scuba]

2. Only as long as their masters prop them up. Once they're finished with the TP, it'll disappear. n/

[cyberpj]

10. So you're saying it's because the Tea Party rants allow them to go even farther right? nt

[Scuba]

27. After the TP, it'll be something else. Another astroturf movement. n/t

[defendandprotect]

4. Why does the Koch Bros./DLC "wag the Democratic Party" ------ ?

The Rightwing Koch Bros. Funded the DLC --

http://www.democrats.com/node/7789

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x498414


If you knew this, why didn't you tell us?

If you didn't know -- pass it along -- !!

:)

[polichick]

5. Yes, this is incredibly important - thanks for the links and reminder!

[EFerrari]

6. Exactly. It's the Koch Bros, not the TeaKlan, that do the wagging.

[notadmblnd]

7. they do it for the Koch. Republican luvs themselves some Koch.

[cyberpj]

12. So you're saying the Koch brothers wouldn't continue to give their $ to Republicans if

mainline Republicans did not bow down to Tea Partiers?

Or are you saying Koch bros ARE the Tea Party and Republicans just can't stay away from the temptation to go for even more $$ by supporting the Koch/Tea Party.

If so, why are people just calling it THE KOCH PARTY ?

[notadmblnd]

15. the Koch brothers are the Taxed Enough Already party.

all those other dolts you see wearing hats with teabags, they are just the useful idiots.

[defendandprotect]

23. Koch Bros. financed T-Party and its run out of a PR firm which guarantees exposure ...

Meanwhile -- Koch Bros. also financed DLC in Dem Party which has pretty much now

completed its takeover of the party -- !!



they will argue that young children have been turned into drug mules in

some cases -- therefore it will eventually be OK to do "strip search" not

only on every passenger -- but children as well!!

This is the rise of the right -- and the only way they have succeeded is with

political violence -- assassinations -- stolen elections -- lies --



The Rightwing Koch Bros. Funded the DLC --

http://www.democrats.com/node/7789

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x498414


If you knew this, why didn't you tell us?

If you didn't know -- pass it along -- !!

:)



In other words, the entire right wing is a Hollywood Soundtage of faked organizations from

think tanks to the Christian Coalition -- the GOP/NRA -- the GOP/"Prof-life" -- the

GOP/Diebold Computers -- GOP/Fox News --

The only way the right wing can rise is via political violence and we've had 50 years of that

taking not only our president, but our people's government!

Many think that stolen elections began in 2000 -- rather the voting computers began to come

in during the late 1960's ... !! Was there ever really a GOP "Southern Strategy" or only

GOP voting computers?

[valerief]

8. $$$$$. A Citizens United carload of $$$$$. nt

[HereSince1628]

14. I heard a BINGO over there on the side of the room!

who was that masked man?


Let's check that card and see if it's REALLY a winner!

Don't forget winners... Father Prodermis and The Sister's of Perpetual Sorrow are still in the midst of their FALL fund drive!

[defendandprotect]

24. Democratic Party has to stand up and refuse to take any more corporate $$ ....

Last election -- 2010 -- Dems got $1 for every $7 the Repugs got --

how could that make any sense? How could Dems continue with such a losing policy?

Enough power left for Democrats -- if they wish -- to turn this system around to

public elections -- and to oust the GOP voting computers!!

And since we see no effort to deal either with getting public financing of elections going --

or to deal with GOP Diebold hackable computers -- we have to wonder why?

Why isn't Dem Party as interested in honest elections as the public is?





they will argue that young children have been turned into drug mules in

some cases -- therefore it will eventually be OK to do "strip search" not

only on every passenger -- but children as well!!

This is the rise of the right -- and the only way they have succeeded is with

political violence -- assassinations -- stolen elections -- lies --



The Rightwing Koch Bros. Funded the DLC --

http://www.democrats.com/node/7789

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x498414


If you knew this, why didn't you tell us?

If you didn't know -- pass it along -- !!

:)

[Mz Pip]

9. Because they can

There are enough of them to really throw a wrench in the works. The GOP has to deal with them the same way the Democrat have to deal with the Blue Dogs.

[WhiteTara]

11. Tea Party is a code name for Kock Brothers and Friends.

So they get what they want. The puppets in old timey clothes are just props, nothing more.

[cyberpj]

13. Ok. Got it. Why don't Progressives just start calling it The Koch Partiers? nt

[defendandprotect]

25. Great suggestion -- !! Finally a bit of REVERSE rw propaganda -- !!!

[cyberpj]

32. Or better yet, The Koch Heads. nt

[WhiteTara]

30. Go for it! I do. n/t

[L. Coyote]

16. Because there is no Tea Party, they are a fully-owned subsidiary on the Not-Bush-Party Deception

formerly known as the RNC! :rofl:

Bush is poison, lead, cesium, nucalear, death-to-candidates, and it was mandatory to create a not-Bush brand to retain the wing-nut dollars and votes. And it worked like a charm because the Dems could not pin Bush on Tea Party candidates.

[newspeak]

26. BINGO!!!

Remember after Little Boot's, the repugs were gone!!! No way could they make a come back after taking the country so far down. Of course we have some people that have short term memories. The Tea Party is a recreated repug party to allow them to keep their foot in the door after basically economically ruining the country. With the help of corporate sponsored talking heads and the media, they've done their job well. Under Little Boot's job creation in this country fell big time, he spent like there was no tomorrow (you know, he was keeping us safe BS) and funneling billions into the war for profit (the big lie)--the repug party was supposed to be toast--but wait, let's recreate it and depend upon the people's ignorance, short term memory and stupidity. Then we'll have our top propaganda merchants "sell" that government is evil, corporations are good and the people don't need any stinking help, just pull yourselves up so we can screw you some more. And the people in unison, "yes, beat us up some more because we really deserve it and the wealthy, corporations deserve everything--we are not worthy!" And, the repug politicians are so concerned about the deficit--so concerned that they must cut anything that may help the proles from drowning when there are few jobs (even fewer decent jobs)--but they forgot to inform their short term memory base that they created the deficit!!!

[OHdem10]

17. Remember when Tea Party came on the scene, the GOP was

in the dumper with no chance of winning anything.

It is my observation that the Republicans ever the
opportunists, saw this as a way of a comeback for
themselves.

The Tea Party were going to have their own 3rd Party.

I believe the Republicans sold their souls and promised
the Tea Party power within the Republican Party if
they would help them make a comeback rather than
form a 3rd Party.

The Tea Party says if they do not get what they want
they from Republicans they form their own party.

It creates divisions just as we have divisions in our
party. Right now I just heard 20 something Republicans
are refusing to support the Ryan Plan. It has been a long
long long time since we saw division in GOP. Also Boehner
had to go to Democrats to get votes to past that CR the
other night.

[Uncle Joe]

19. Because the Tea Party; is the fig leaf covering naked Republican corporate supremacism.

I believe the people of the Tea Party are drastically mistaken in their analysis of the problems facing them.

In large part, they're brainwashed victims of corporate media propaganda alluding to "government as being the problem" and that "cutting taxes on the wealthy" is the answer, etc. etc.

The Tea Party represents a populist strain; albeit a misguided one which the corporate loving Republican Party desperately needs as camouflage to project the illusion of being connected to the people, but instead of enlightening as to the truth and risking alienation of those brainwashed masses, the PTBs in the Republican Party don them.

Thanks for the thread, cyberpj.

[zaj]

20. Energy...

... it's why candidates in the primary's move to the extremes. That's where the activists on both sides are located. That's where the passion for the respective causes are. It's pretty straightforward, actually.

[Warren Stupidity]

22. "they" are an invention of the RNC

intended to facilitate a further push to the right.

[Freddie Stubbs]

28. Ask Mike Castle

[cyberpj]

34. Well thanks for noticing, AND being that well informed. nt

[The Magistrate]

29. They Dominate the Republican Primary Electorate, Ma'am

[JackRiddler]

31. Tea Party is not small. They are the majority of "base" Republican voters...

...astroturfed from above into a pretend rebel movement that lives off America-first paranoia, reactionary hatred of "deviant" or "elite" subcultures, and racism. This is the latest revival of a formula that's been used since... the Civil War? Billy Sunday and Father Coughlin and the first Red Scare? Brown v. Board of Ed? The "Moral Majority"? It's never gone away.

It's ugly to contemplate, but do you really believe, after Bush, that there is such a thing as a moderate side to the Republican Party? At the top you have an oil mafia, national security fetishists, "Prussians" (neocons) and the Randian Billionaires constantly launching new offensives in the class war.

At the bottom you have the Christianists and the likes of the Tea Party, sprinkled with smaller business people who hate taxes and think everyone's a goddamn freeloader and oh they're going to be so rich one day.

The money is behind them, the media accommodates them, and they ARE the modern-day Republican Party footsoldiers.

The astroturf part comes from pretending that they appeared in 2009 in reaction to Obama's "socialism." They were always there, and they were called Republicans.

Unfortunately, these are many of your fellow Americans. Not a majority, by a long shot, and clearly not a group who can mobilize much in the way of street action per dollar spent (as demonstrated by the comparative performance of the Beck vs. Colbert/Stewart rallies).

But anyone who's been protesting these past decades can tell you they get huge coverage per protester, don't they now?

[spanone]

33. they are the heart and soul of the republican party...

[Taverner]

35. Because deep down Republicans are dead souls, with contempt for the weak...

And hatred of anything other than them