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rurallib

(64,633 posts) Wed May 9, 2012, 01:06 PM May 2012

Is the Republican Party shrinking so that it and the Tea Party [View all]

will be one and the same soon?
Seems like the way that anyone who was ever contrary to what the current orthodoxy is in the Republican Party will pay the price.
Seems the current orthodoxy is set by Tea Party radicals.
Seems like no matter how far in the past someone stated something that is now verboten, they will be punished.

If they aren't one and the same yet, they soon will be.

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Is the Republican Party shrinking so that it and the Tea Party [View all] rurallib May 2012 OP

Be careful what you wish for. bpj62 May 2012 #1

I hope not DJ13 May 2012 #2

There are very, very few Republican moderates left. Jennicut May 2012 #8

in what world is Lindsey Graham a moderate? rurallib May 2012 #10

What? They have always been one and the same. Those GOP people are running the party, completely. AlinPA May 2012 #3

The Rushblucans ARE the Teabaggers... KharmaTrain May 2012 #4

They are definitely controlling the primary process RDANGELO May 2012 #5

I hope so LadyHawkAZ May 2012 #6

"I like the way you think..." Ikonoklast May 2012 #9

It's almost as if challenging a system from within Nuclear Unicorn May 2012 #7

they have purged the moderate republicans madrchsod May 2012 #11