B still my heart.
Posted on 10/30/2013 3:58:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's instructive to remember that when the Tea Party first began to gather steam, the name referred to a "party" in the celebration sense – the Boston Tea Party, specifically: an event of planned chaos, a protest that masqueraded as an Indian attack. Over time, the name has lost its punny puckishness much as the movement has steadily shifted from a proudly anacharical – even populist – response and rebellion within the GOP to a smoothly functioning alternative to it.
The government shutdown proved that attempts by the GOP establishment to co-opt the Tea Party as a source of energy just created a network of political sleeper agents. With its own mechanism for drafting (and supporting) candidates, its own agenda, and its own media eco-system, the Tea Party is a third_party by almost any criteria but ballot affiliation–and leadership. The absence of any official organizational structure might be one reason the Tea Party has remained so lively despite a terrible national reputation and negligible policy achievements. When something goes wrong, those identified with the failure fade for a time and the attention of Tea Party-identified voters shifts smoothly to someone else. There's also no demand for positive policy victories or signature legislation: no one has to win a debate, just spoil the outcome.
Thus it's no surprise that Ted Cruz is the current face of the Tea Party: All his achievements are proudly in the negative, all his goals are set resolutely in the past. But the Tea Party's fickle and hive-like nature virtually demands that Cruz cycle out of the spotlight eventually. He will either fail to stop something from happening or, perhaps worse, accidently cause something to get done.
For when that happens: here's a look at some of the Tea Party's once and perhaps future leaders....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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*snicker*
Cruz looks serene and sincere, another True Believer" Re
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Awesome photo! Real Americans...they give me hope!
B still my heart.
I’m in, sir. Just need to know where to muster.
I am Sparticus...
Exactly.
Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don’t. At least I’m not one of those Obamanoid freeloaders who can’t join the TEA Party because they don’t pay taxes. Most of those jackasses don’t know what taxes are. They don’t charge taxes when you use a Food Stamp card.
/raises hand. Try and decipher my incredibly complex username NSA.
2016 ftw.
Thus spake ana banana nose the cox sucker.
“This is merely the Left letting you know who they fear by naming names. I reject 25 of these for every one that I post. Did you know that?”
LOL!
Say it again and louder, soldier.
Three words... CRUZ WAS RIGHT!
You read this all of the time but in this case it is true. You made me blow diet cola out of my nose!
the guardian is a leftist rag they have no clue about US politics
From the land of Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy and John “I served in Vietnam” Kerry we are lectured on the path to success?
No wonder that our former colonial masters don’t like the tea party. They are still miffed about being kicked out of the colonies.
Drivel
more like the urban cities, not the states. Rural america has no say anywhere.
Sure he is. Didn’t you see him supporting Lonegan at the Tea Party Express rally the Saturday before the election? You didn’t? He was the one wearing a baseball hat. No?
Exactly. We’re the primal ooze. We know what we are and we’ll coalesce into a life form when the time comes.
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