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moman

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11. Real Good Point!

Reply to stultusporcos (Original post)

Thu Jan 3, 2013, 08:43 PM

Jan 2013

For a long time the media tried to convince everyone that these were "independents."Truth is they are just the same old Right Wing Republicans who created this con and the media dutifully brought in to it?Got to be "fair" you know!

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Stop calling the Tea Party the Tea Party they are Republicans, period. [View all] stultusporcos Jan 2013 OP

I often refer to them as the LeftofObama Jan 2013 #1

Teahadists. JoePhilly Jan 2013 #2

Would Love to see PBO and Dem Leadership refer to them that way stultusporcos Jan 2013 #4

Teapublicans. Bought and paid for. The lot of them. wandy Jan 2013 #3

The tea party is the hard right flank of the GOP. Dawson Leery Jan 2013 #5

I wouldn't dream of affording them any Flashmann Jan 2013 #6

'Tea Party' is so 2010 leftstreet Jan 2013 #7

good point. robinlynne Jan 2013 #8

I agree, in fact the term was coined because the Republican brand was Bush stained Bluenorthwest Jan 2013 #9

This distinction parallels the debate on the guilt of that woman who pushed the guy onto the subway Bucky Jan 2013 #10

Real Good Point! moman Jan 2013 #11

Pretty much all Tea Party types are Republicans, but not all Republicans are Tea Partiers Buzz Clik Jan 2013 #12

You are exactly right. The tea party is the old religious right, the old segregationists bluestate10 Jan 2013 #13