“Tea Party folks weren’t AWOL....I would describe them as loosely cast.”
Sheesh talk about damning with faint praise. The bottom line is too many on FR and the Tea Party were quite content to see the GOP under Dubya explode Federal spending on nonsense. The reason this hypocrisy needs to be brought up at every opportunity is so that it isn’t repeated! Whether that’s a lost cause is another story. For all of the Tea Party’s vaunted strength, they sure had little impact blocking Romney from the GOP nomination.
No they weren’t they just didn’t do things the way YOU wanted them to. Put your ego aside and get to work rather than carping. Our country DEPENDS upon it.