Britain's Torygraph Offers Advice to Teahadists: Tea Party Could Learn From Nick Clegg

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Tea Party supporters should take some lessons from the Liberal Democrats' Nick Clegg if they really want to shake up politics, says Alex Spillius

By Alex Spillius
Published: 5:31PM BST 08 May 2010

You would need all the tea in China to fill the gulf in political views between Nick Clegg and the average Tea Party supporter.

A typical Lib Dem is anti-nukes, pro-abortion and not terribly keen on the death penalty. Tea Party types believe the NHS is socialism and gun ownership is a gift from God.

But they do share one thing in common: the challenge they pose to the political establishment of their respective countries.

Both the Lib Dem leader and the grassroots movement that has swept the United States in the past year have risen from obscurity to unnerve the political establishment.

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7696646/General-election-2010-Tea-Party-could-learn-from-Nick-Clegg.html

LOL at calling Teahadists a "grassroots movement". This part had an element of truth, though:

"most are just angry Republicans looking for a new and probably temporary home."