There. Is. No. Tea. Party. -- Part 27,877

[phantom power]

Solve this terrible article from "The Daily Beast" for "X" where "X" is "The Tea Party".

How the Tea Party’s Apocalyptic Politics Are Destroying the Republican Party

by Joe McLean Nov 11, 2013 5:45 AM EST

Tea Party leaders view themselves as modern prophets of the end of times, ratcheting up their rhetoric to prove that Obama is evil and God is on their side.

Want to know why the Tea Party so eager to grievously wound the Republican Party? The answer is as simple as it is counterintuitive: its leaders view themselves as modern prophets of the apocalypse.
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Dear Joe,

I will keep this real simple.

There. Is. No. Tea. Party.

See how easy that it!

There are only (as I have now repeated approximately 27,877 times since 2009)

...Those fucknozzles who, after giving Dubya the longest tongue bath in modern political history while calling everyone else a traitor, started gagging on the sheer tonnage of bullshit their creepy idolatry of George W. Bush was requiring them to swallow and obediently regurgitate every fucking day, that's who.
Most newly minted “independents” seem to be little more than Republicans who are fleeing the scene of their crime, but at the same time still desperately want believe in the inerrant wisdom of Rush Limbaugh. They are completely incapable of facing the horrifying reality that that they have gotten every single major political opinion and decision of their adult lives completely wrong, so instead they double-down on their hatred of women and/or gays and/or brown people and/or Liberals, and blame them for the miserable fuckpit their leaders and their policies have made of their live and futures.

Like German soldiers after the fall of Berlin, they have stopped running away from the catastrophe they created only long enough to burn their uniforms.
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Solving for "X" where "X" is "The Tea Party", it is impossible for the "The Tea Party" to grievously wound the Republican Party because the "Tea Party" is the Republican Party, and has been for most of the last 40 years.

All that has changed is the greasy fascists who built a Republican electoral battering ram out of degenerates, demagogues, bigots, anti-science bible-thumpers and assorted other dregs of Western Civilization GOP base (and who spent most of the last 40 years pretending their batshit base did not exist, and that anyone who suggested otherwise was an alarmist Commie) have finally lost control over the beast they created.

Despite ample and repeated warnings, the ruling caste of the Party of Personal Responsibility went ahead and put that rotting, abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide gorilla. And now the monster they never should have made in the first place is whamming the shit out of them...

...while an army of elite media Both Siders like Doris Kearns Goodwin sharts themselves in terror that some imaginary hippie somewhere might be doing something equally terrible...

...and while the ruling caste of the Party of Personal Responsibility and the army of elite media Both Siders both make a Very Conspicuous Show of ignoring the hell out of the same people who have been right about the Right all along.

This is by far the biggest, most important story in political journalism today.

It's too bad we don't have a press corps that has any interest in reporting it.

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2013/11/there-is-no-tea-party-part-27877.html

[el_bryanto]

1. Simplistic in my opinion

Yes - it's true that there is very little difference between the goals of the Tea party and the goals of mainstream republican politicians, but the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, has always been a confederation of interests and groups, who agree on the larger issues, but disagree on tactics and tone and the like.

What is coming home to roost is that the Republicans have for the last 40 years or so played to their base - and to the more extreme elements of their base. Atwater to Rove to Cruz - they have believed in pretending like their base matters to them, even when it didn't. This has given the Republican base the sense that they matter and should have power over the party.

Democratic leaders haven't given into this temptation, which is why the Democratic Base has no real illusions about how much they control Obama or Clinton or Congressional Dems.

Bryant

[phantom power]

3. "Tea party" is a useful shorthand, but I think it also provides too much cover for the GOP

What people call the "tea party" is the far-right wing of the GOP. None of these people have a (T) after their names. They all have an (R) after their names. The GOP cultivates them as useful idiots, and a voting base, etc. The thing is, the Republicans own these wing-nuts, lock stock and barrel. Every time we, or anybody else, talk about the "tea party", it reinforces the impression that there is actually some 3rd political party out there. It gives the rest of the slightly-less-insane Republicans a pass.

Democrats would be well served to stop calling them the tea party and start forcing the GOP to wear these nut-jobs like a burning tire around their neck. That forces them into a no-win situation. Either they own their base, which is politically bad for them with most other voters, or they are forced to dis-own them. That is also politically bad for them, since it will infuriate them and hit their voter turnout.

My fantasy is, some of these wingnuts actually *do* form a 3rd party. That would be excellent for the Democrats.

[Erose999]

2. The "Tea Party" is just a brand for the same old far right bull. Just a $99 Earl Schieb paint job

on the same old clapped out 250,000 mile Chevy Corsica .

[Bandit]

4. They are just newly formed John Birchers

Their feelings of superiority has caused them to develop intense hatreds for all the "lessor" people...They feel they are ALWAYS right and anyone that disagrees with them is not only wrong, but an enemy. They truly are despicable beings.