“Why does the GOP hate the Tea Party?”
The republican establishment has always hated conservatives. This goes back a long way, to Hoover and Coolidge, Taft and Willkie, Taft and Dewey, Taft and Eisenhower, Nixon and Goldwater, Goldwater and Rockefeller, Reagan and Ford, Reagan and Bush, Bush and Buchanan, etc.
We are a threat to their power. And they do everything possible to make us angry in order to push us out. They forced Dole upon us, they achieve very close victories in 2000 and 2004, they initiate “power-sharing” agreements, they forced McCain upon us, they forced Romney upon us, they want to force Amnesty upon us, they increase the debt right in our faces.
They willfully work to tamp down any conservatives enthusiasm. Intentionally.
This is true. Have just been reading about the Nixon years. Same old story. Sounds just like today. Nixon knew how to hunt where the ducks are, but the back story is the same.