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To: TomGuy

Interesting. Those numbers mean that the Tea Parties are drawing a lot of Indies and Democrats, something the moderate R’s have never really figured out how to do. It’s a hard coalition to keep together because the moderate R’s have a certain cultural contempt for their lessers in the conservative wing of the party.


61 posted on 12/07/2009 6:44:51 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker
Interesting. Those numbers mean that the Tea Parties are drawing a lot of Indies and Democrats, something the moderate R’s have never really figured out how to do. It’s a hard coalition to keep together because the moderate R’s have a certain cultural contempt for their lessers in the conservative wing of the party.

Please stop to think about what you just wrote. Do you really believe that all these "Indies and Democrats" that you're so happy about attracting are in the end going to hang in there with the conservatives? These people are not going to be conservative on the social issues and they're going to stray off the reservation just like everyone is doing now.

This is no panacea. People are people. You can realign them into a new group with a new name but you are going to eventually be right back to where we are now.

I want to call my new party The Anti-Democrat Party.

86 posted on 12/07/2009 6:58:42 AM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma (Al Franken--the face of the third-party voters)
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