Call me crazy but I suspect in 18 months the country is going to be fed up with the Tea Party

[LynneSin]

This shooting has brought out the WORST in the Tea Party even if there is only a vague connection between the shooter and the Tea Party Members.

Everyday crazy accusations are made against Barack Obama and yet he keeps his head above the fray and tries to bring class & honor instead of finger-pointing & whining when it comes to those accusations.

Now the roles are reverse and there is alot of criticism and accusations being thrown at the Tea Party. Some of it is legitimate like newly elected members being hypocrites with their healthcare and earmarks and some are a bit of a stretch like the Tuscon shootings. But instead of showing the country why Tea Party members are the leaders we should elect we're seeing the type of leadership we could expect if we gave the Tea Party all the keys needed to run the nation. And quite honestly it's a damn scary concept.

If they keep acting like this, with leaders full of crass and not class, I can't see this tea party movement lasting more than one congressional term. Voters who gave them a chance are going to recognize that they elected cry-babies who think vile rhetoric is the way to run a country and not logic & common sense.

I think we're about to see the implosion of the Tea Party and I for one will enjoy watching it.

[leftstreet]

1. The 'Tea Party' was created and manipulated right from the start

The movement got co opted during the bullshit healthcare town halls

As soon as the establishment political class is done with them, they're toast

[DCKit]

12. They won't go quietly into the night. nt

[RZM]

2. I wouldn't bet on the Tea Party being a long-term phenomenon

Though of course the people in it aren't going anywhere or changing their beliefs. We'll see how they handle the Republican primaries and the 2012 election, when they will have an uphill battle against the President. If they do go away I don't think it will be because others don't like them, but because it's not easy for such a loose-knit group to survive for too long without fragmenting.

[madrchsod]

3. i`d say less than that...

i think the republican party will pull the plug on them by this fall.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. agreed, for two reasons

the first being the lack of control that the GOP will have on those deluded morons.
The second will be due to America looking at them, and wondering, Are You Fucking Nuts?

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. I think lots will depend on how much money continues to get poured into

the astro turf, faux outrage tea party - including how the $$$$corporate media wishes to continue (or is forced to continue) to shove it down their viewers' throats.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. The Tea Party might implode, but I'm guessing the real manipulators behind them

will still be running the show.

(Like when Obama took office and we thought, "Finally, an end to the nightmare of Dubya's policies!" Then look how it's gone.)

[RKP5637]

9. Yep, they will find another venue through which to channel their manipulation, greed and control of

the country.

[RKP5637]

6. I think most people want to live with some iota of peace and quiet and although there

are more than enough problems to solve are fed up with the BS hateful rhetoric of the tea party jerks.

[FSogol]

8. I saw 2 articles today on the GOP having buyer's remorse for their new House members.

That didn't take long.

[AlinPA]

10. IMO, they are the base of the republican party.They are very dominant now, the primaries show that.

Yes it is scary what has happened to the republican party, it was bad before, but now they are crazier. I don't make the distinction of Republican-Teabagger, they are one and the same. None of them would ever vote for a Democrat. The republican party has gotten louder and more rude and people call them Tea partiers.

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. Their increasing hatred and violence lead the way for the rest of us to choose something positive.

Ugliness is pointing the way to more positive ways of living. Enough people are becoming sick of such outright hatred and violence, that the country itself is changing for the better.

Yes, get the popcorn but know that it ain't all gonna be pretty. That's the only way enough people can come together against their sort of thing.

[JuniperLea]

13. I hope they feel used and abused...

Because that's exactly what they are and they need to feel it so they are more careful next time. I swear this is the kind of moth to flame mentality that makes people wind up in places like Jonestown!

[Motown_Johnny]

14. Your Crazy !

ya told me to

[pacalo]

15. Hopefully, they'll be scorned out of town. Their leadership is straight out of a sci-fi script.

But it all started with Fixed News.

[Davis_X_Machina]

16. No Nothings. Anti-Masonic Party. Free-soilers....

...a movement, if it's any good, politically speaking, will be absorbed and co-opted by one or other of the two parties.

If not, it vanishes without a trace.

Ross Perot finished second in this state (Maine), ahead of a sitting president.

Where's United We Stand, or whatever it is now, today?

[EFerrari]

17. Did you see what they did to Filner on election night?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/41050066#41050066

[lunatica]

18. They will always be the Teabaggers to me

If they want to be taken seriously they have to get serious about governing.

[unblock]

19. the "tea party" may be a blip, but the republican party marches on

the "tea party" was never more than a test marketed new brand from a giant corporation that ain't going nowhere.

ok, maybe the "tea party" comes and goes as ignominiously as "new coke", but "coke classic" is here to stay (apologies to coke fans for likening republicans to it....)


at best, if it fails, it lets whacko, right-wing republicans something even further to the right to distance themselves from, allowing them to claim to be "moderate" or "reasonable" when of course they are no such thing.

[Rectangle]

20. the Tea Party had a "Near Death Experience" (politically speaking) last week.

If the shooter had been tied to the Tea Party and Sarah Palin
the Party would have been <OVER>, then and there!!!