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To: Pietro
This is my view; the TeaParty has been an unmitigated success, even though not as quickly as we would have liked.

What have they "won" on?

136 posted on 08/26/2016 10:34:33 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: papertyger
They've elected many actual conservatives to congress, even though some have turned. The electoral victories of 2010 and 2014 are TP victories.

They gave Boehner the boot even though he was replaced by the pliable ryno.

Small victories no doubt but these came after the TP had been declared dead several times. The difficulty heretofore has been finding a national candidate that is not tarred w/ the brush of "politician". How to win a political campaign w/o a politician?

I consider their success the fact that they/we are still relevant and that we scare "them' so much.

We are "prickly and hard to eradicate" one of my favorite lines from a favorite movie.

137 posted on 08/26/2016 10:47:05 AM PDT by Pietro
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