Fractures emerge as Tea Party convenes

Zinc Route · Feb 6, 2010

**** Unless Term Limits is one of the pillars of this or any Conservative Movement it is doomed ...... and unfortunately some in leadership on the GOP/Conservative/Talk Radio side do not focus on this issue because they WANT a reliable agreeable establishment.

Winnb · Feb 6, 2010

Zyphlin said:
There were numerous "Tea Parties" by the Ron Paul grass roots movement prior to the election. They never received a large amount of coverage as they were not quite as wide scale as the one that happened on tax day and they were more directed in part towards a candidate AND his message rather than just a message. A candidate that essentially had little to no real shot at getting the nomination.

Historically, people are more apt to protest when they are in the opposition. Not necessarily because they weren't upset about their side, but people are generally always more likely in politics to be MORE vocal when they're out of power because beyond that they're powerless. So as the Republicans lost power, Obama gained power, and Obama started doing many of the same things Bush did that made those people mad PLUS started doing more things that made them mad, the fervor of it and the spread of the movement increased. The detachment from the Ron Paul campaigned also likely helped increase it spread, and its coverage, as you began to move away from a mostly outlying candidate who was extremely polarizing within the base.

What we have seen is these kind of movements are rife for the potential for crazies to latch on. At the beginning of the Tea Parties it was 9/11 truthers and people who believed the CFR was a clandestine group forging a world government to rule us all. In most recent time its Truthers and the Obama is a Nazi types.

So does anyone think the tea parties have run their course? Seems like it to me. Other than internet forums I rarely hear about them anymore. It seems they're fading into the sunset...

Zyphlin · Feb 6, 2010

Winnb said:
So does anyone think the tea parties have run their course? Seems like it to me. Other than internet forums I rarely hear about them anymore. It seems they're fading into the sunset...

Yes and no. While the wing nuts have definitely been drawn to it, as they are really on BOTH sides to any movement that begins to pick up steam, I think over all the Tea Party movement has been good for conservatives. Its put the focus primarily back on fiscal and governmental responsibility rather than strictly on Social conservatism as it had been the past 8 years. This does not mean there were not a number of problems with the movement, but ultimately it seems to have gotten a large section of the base to begin to have a more balanced approach to conservatism and if that ends up being the case...and ends up sticking...then in the end its a net win, wing nuts latching on or not.

The Prof · Feb 6, 2010

Winnb said:
So does anyone think the tea parties have run their course? Seems like it to me. Other than internet forums I rarely hear about them anymore. It seems they're fading into the sunset...

the nashville convention is wall to wall cable, yesterday and today

i'm surprised you haven't heard

Winnb · Feb 6, 2010

The Prof said:
the nashville convention is wall to wall cable, yesterday and today

i'm surprised you haven't heard

Well they used to report on them in my local paper in Richmond. Plus I'd see them on TV every now and then. But I must confess, about 2 months ago I got Verizon Fios and a new TV. So now I get over a thousand freakin channels and I can't keep up with anything....

Fractures emerge as Tea Party convenes

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