The Tea Party movement will have to merge with the Republican Party in the end, but it’s important that the Tea Partyers hold out for an improved Republican Party. In the end, the unifying, galvanizing force will be the candidates in 2010 and then, most importantly, the candidate in 2012—and that will have to be Sarah Palin if the Tea Party movement and Republicans are to each get the most out of their eventual alliance. Palin is the right answer to all the questions.
“The Tea Party movement will have to merge with the Republican Party in the end, but it’s important that the Tea Partyers hold out for an improved Republican Party. In the end, the unifying, galvanizing force will be the candidates in 2010 and then, most importantly, the candidate in 2012—and that will have to be Sarah Palin if the Tea Party movement and Republicans are to each get the most out of their eventual alliance. Palin is the right answer to all the questions.”
I would suggest that the Tea Party movement will need to take over the Republican party...and I agree about Sarah Palin.
I’m afraid the Tea Party will become a third party, like the Reform Party, and it’ll peel off enough votes from the Republicans next major election, to put all these bastards back in office, like Perot did with Clinton.
Several years ago, I would have agreed with you...today, no way! The Republican Party has become useless and seems to be a limp flag for upholding the Constitution.
They need to be purged as much as the Democrats now and I just hope that this Tea Party movement actually brings down this shell of a party. I am so mad at the Republicans that I can spit and do so frequently at the TV...
No it won’t (and I will fight tooth-in-nail) to make sure that THAT never happens; what will happen however is that most will end up voting Republican in the next election or two..(or three).
However I have no problem with genunine conservative/libertarian/moderate-conservative democrats running their own Tea Party Democrats to take on incumbent dems (and liberal Republicans or “moderates” RINOS)!