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Polygamy: The Marriage of the Tea Party, Wall Street, and Evangelicals Dissolves
The Huffington Post's Politics The Blog ^ | June 30, 2015 | Richard Brodsky, Senior Fellow, Demos

Posted on 07/02/2015 7:18:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It was a difficult marriage from the beginning. Its success was largely regional and state by state. But where it worked, it worked well, mainly the South and parts of the West. They papered over their differences for years. Now they've grown apart and a messy divorce looms.

It wasn't exactly a shotgun marriage. The Wall Street/Koch Brothers crowd gleefully accepted the support of Tea Party and evangelical leaders, as long as austerity, high-end tax cuts and deregulation were part of the agenda. The cultural right needed money and legitimacy. Everybody got along.

No more. The split was thrust into public view by Anthony Kennedy and John Roberts, two "turncoats," and the Confederate flag. Responses to the flag controversy, and the new constitutional right to same-sex marriage and upholding Obamacare are dividing the GOP family.

Some see it as a political opportunity. "The stage is now cleared for the next generation of issues." says David Frum a conservative-ish Republican. "Whether the presidential candidates agree or disagree with the results of all this, it allows them to say these issues have been settled and move on to things that offer more of a political home-field advantage," said Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota.

Or...Ted Cruz is doubling down. These issues are "motivating the American people to come out and vote for restoring our constitutional system. It's very easy for Republican politicians to stand up and say they oppose Barack Obama. I think the question Republican primary voters should ask is, 'When have you stood up against the Washington cartel? When have you stood up against leaders in our own party?"(continued)

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1 posted on 07/02/2015 7:18:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The establishment declares victory.


2 posted on 07/02/2015 7:21:14 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I didn’t understand the article.

It looked to me like the author wanted to use a title, but that the article doesn’t explain the title.


3 posted on 07/02/2015 7:23:38 PM PDT by ansel12 (libertarians have always been for gay marriage and polygamy, gay Scout leaders, gay military.)
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To: ansel12

Welcome to Obamaworld. Anything to push tbat narrative.


4 posted on 07/02/2015 7:25:14 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: ansel12

The author is hoping beyond hope that the Tea Party is dead.


5 posted on 07/02/2015 7:25:22 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

HuffPo wishful thinking. There is more
unity than they imagine.


6 posted on 07/02/2015 7:27:07 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wall street ? They hate the Tea Party. Stupid progressives.


7 posted on 07/02/2015 7:32:14 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just like in the late 1700's, 33% are against gov't tyranny.

LEAVE.

US.

ALONE.

QED

8 posted on 07/02/2015 7:33:53 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Speaking of Marriage. I like to play Farmville 2. Well this morning I receive to gift to accept for my farm. It is called a Pride Fence. The fence is decorated with different colors of the Rainbow.

Sheesh, Facebook is not satisfy with their stupid flag impose over profile pics.

Now I’m not sure but something weird also happen, since I did not accept the gifts. Now I can’t accept any gifts from my neighbors. All it will allow me to do is share but not accept. Makes me wonder if someone hacked my account.

I’m sorry no cows of mine will have colored fences like a Rainbow it would look so retarded.....sigh


9 posted on 07/02/2015 7:37:04 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: headstamp 2

If the Establishment declared victory, the question is over what?

They’re gone. They split their own base not once, not twice, but Oh going on 10 times now. Four or five just in the last week.

What electoral coalition do you cobble together at this point?

People put up with a pair of retro throwbacks like Ditch and Boner because they thought that on the cultural crap they would at least be mainstream.

They are nowhere to be found on any of this. Must be cashing checks at an ATM in Virginia, far from the spotlights.

The Republican party is over, folks. The people who put Roberts The Savior in as Chief Justice and are still trying to throw Cruz and every Conservative Representative off the bus got nothin. They dont HAVE any supporters other then some lobbyists.

Vote for them? Why? So they can pull a Lucy Van Pelt gig again?

It’s over. Watching that worn out cadaver McConnell pee in his pants because some mulatto kid from Jakarta took his phone call is the end of the road. Its not just strange, its surreal.

The Tea Party died because the government party used state power to terrorize it. That’s a fact. The hatchets who did it are being protected. What does that tell you?

It was the last authentic popular group within the Republican party. There is no Boner-McConnell wing. Whoever might have constituted that group is largely dying off now as they were the 50s gang. Call it the nursing home group.

Other then that, they have no appeal. None.


10 posted on 07/02/2015 7:42:18 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

the author:

2 Democrats Seeking Attorney General Nomination Spar Over a ‘Pact’ (NY)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1619571/posts


11 posted on 07/02/2015 7:54:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Regulator

Time to push the restart button on the whole wretched game. This one is over, unless you want to find out what the American version of a police state looks like.

I think it will look like a perfectly groomed guy with a dazzling smile, wearing an Armani suit and holding a briefcase full of injunctions.


12 posted on 07/02/2015 7:58:35 PM PDT by L,TOWM (Is it still too soon to start shooting? [No social transformation without representation])
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To: Patriot Babe

Hmmm, I play Farmville 2 and haven’t seen that but I will be on guard. You might have to write Zynga and ask why you aren’t able to accept any gifts. Good luck!


13 posted on 07/02/2015 8:00:28 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl
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To: justa-hairyape

Exactly. Just some more two minutes’ hate by reinventing their Emmanuel Goldsteins and concocting alliances that do not exist.


14 posted on 07/02/2015 8:07:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Brodsky? That was the name of one of the doctors in “A Clockwork Orange” that performed the Ludovico treatment on Alex. Hmm.


15 posted on 07/02/2015 8:08:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Funny, I just read something today marrying off the conservatives to the libertarians because the libertarians just won on gay marriage.


16 posted on 07/02/2015 8:42:21 PM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: WKTimpco

The Tea party needs to fracture from the Gop and Republicans. GOp Republicans have gotten conservatives nowhere, S why should conservatives hang with the Gop? That unholy relationship has proven to render conservatives powerless. Don’t you think its Tim for a split, a real split once and for all?


17 posted on 07/02/2015 8:50:52 PM PDT by inchworm
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To: inchworm

I’m with you. But names don’t matter.
GOP, Republican, conservative,
constitutionalist, Tea Party.

They have us running from words.
Judge people on a sense of what
they will do in office.

Maybe some people won’t vote for
Cruz because he put an R after his
name. If you don’t care, then you
really don’t care one way or the
other in terms of political party.

Would you vote for the candidate you
like the most if he officially registers
as a Democrat?


18 posted on 07/03/2015 1:16:30 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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