[Timber Rattler]

Hmmmm...your memory of the TEA Party movement is very different than mine. I thought that TEA stood for Taxed Enough Already....

[D-fendr]

I think I agree with you on this one;

The Tea Party was about one thing: being taxed for big government spending.

It stuck to that, took on all who felt the same about it - no matter what they thought about other issues.

The focused their power and maximized their forces. Thats how they won.

[RFEngineer]

The TEA party was T.E.A. initially in it’s Santelli-esque beginnings. It quickly became “Save Medicare from Obama Care” for a large majority of TEA party members polled.

You can’t make TEA by keeping things the same. Nobody is willing to give up Medicare and Social Security in exchange for lower taxes, and greater opportunity and freedom, not even conservatives.

Romney echoed the obvious untruth that somehow we could save Medicare and Social Security for everyone and lower taxes at the same time.

The TEA idea is, of course, sound, but most folks really just didn’t want any change to wildly generous Medicare as their core motivation.

We may as well be honest about the Medicare->TEA party contradiction.