[cotton1706]

This is the kind of stuff the establishment reads, which is why they were so in shock that their latest moderate loser lost the presidency and that their slew of moderate candidates went down in flames...AND, why they see so eager to go along with the democrats since they think that is where the people are.

But WE knew Romney would likely lose, and WE knew how worthless a lot of the establishment candidates were, BEFORE they even got going.

The people who read articles like this and nod their heads, are going to be very shocked at the upcoming elections, when their vaunted "war-chests" will mean nothing, for the people will have already seen through them and will not be with them.

[Viennacon]

Fails to mention the massive fundraising advantage grassroots groups have had over Tokyo Rove. More wishful thinking by Politico. Laughable.

[sauropod]

I hope you are correct. Really hope so.

[SeminoleCounty]

This article reminds of Baghdad Bob...

GOPe is going to be history as Tea Party affiliates are raising more money

[kcvl]

Raymond A. Smith is senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute and adjunct assistant professor of political science at Columbia University ...

Raymond A. Smith, is Director of Communications in the Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health, working on a variety of components of research-community interaction. Affiliated with the HIV Center since 1993, he has also served as Project Director of research and intervention studies with gay and lesbian youth, serodiscordant couples, and HIV-positive individuals, and is now an Investigator with the HIV Center's Public Health Policy and Practice Core and a member of the Organizing Committee of the Division's Initiative for LGBT Health.

[Timber Rattler]

Note the piece's author, who deigns to know soooooo much about the TEA Party and its "end game."

Raymond A. Smith is senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute and adjunct assistant professor of political science at Columbia University and New York University.

[Gaffer]

Dr. Smith is also Director of Communications at the Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health at the Columbia University Medical Center. Within the Division, he is a member of the Public Health Practice and Policy Core at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies and is a member of the Organizing Committee of the LGBT Health Initiative. Affiliated with the HIV Center since 1993, he has also served as Project Director of research and intervention studies with gay and lesbian youth, serodiscordant couples, and HIV-positive individuals. From 2008-2013, he also served as Associate Program Director of the MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative at Columbia University and UCLA, an HIV prevention fellowship program in South Africa

So. We now know what side of the homo coin he pops up. Why do they try to disguise these people when they talk about the Tea Party like they know something about it?

[cdcdawg]

When liberals have nightmares, the Tea Party is wearing a hockey mask. To hear them tell it, the Tea Party has died at least 20 times.

[Hardastarboard]

Speaker of the House John Boehner, who seemed so downtrodden last year, now has an extra spring in his step, and is daring to push for immigration reform over the vocal objections of the far right.

And that effort is about to go down in flames. Try to keep up, will you, Mr. Smith?

[clintonh8r]

Is anybody else having trouble seeing the comments on the politico page?

[detective]

The author is a Democrat Party sooge and paid liar for thr Obama Administration.

Their tactic has been to not directly attack conservatives, Christians and patriotic Americans. Rather it is to selectively attack the Tea Party, Fox News, the 1%, etc. They make up lies about people and use ridicule and name calling. These are paid disinformation agents. Their only purpose is to lie and to support the unsupportable policies of the Obama Administration.

They like to play up the disagreements between the elite, establishment Republicans and conservatives. They always take the side of establishment Republicans because they see them as easier to defeat.

We need to understand their tactics. We need to understand that they will tell any lie. We need to understand they hate America and want it turned into a third world dictatorship.

[Starboard]

The Left deeply fears the Tea Party. That’s why they keep harping about its demise.

[Fido969]

ANOTHER “demise of the tea party” article.

Gosh, we’ve seen one of those about every week for the last 8 years.

[RedWhiteBlue]

I don’t get it. If “it’s been a rough few months for the Tea Party” and “fewer Americans than at any time since 2010 now call themselves members or supporters of the group,” then why are the GOP-E “boldly lashing out at conservative outside groups” or “pouring millions of dollars into races across the country to bolster moderates against right-wing insurgents.”

Or perhaps it’s Raymond Smith that doesn’t get it.

[JPG]

Tea Party is lies. Do not listening to the Tea Party.

[SoFloFreeper]

I appreciate this article. Someone remind me of it when the Tea Party crushes Democrats in the upcoming elections...I want to email a “in your face” to the clown who wrote this...

They really have no idea who the Tea Party is or what they stand for in regards to politics and society.

[Gay State Conservative]

During "Occupy Wall Street" there were several heroin ODs as well as several rapes.The city of New York had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up after their handler,Obama/Biden '12,dismissed them.

After a Tea Party Rally it's hard to find a chewing gum wrapper on the ground.