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2016 Postmortem

K8-EEE

(15,667 posts) Tue Nov 6, 2012, 12:41 AM Nov 2012

The party's over! Funny how nobody is running as "The True Tea Party" candidate!

Even Michele Bachmann was tyring to be all bi-partisan and "non-political" (but then everybody laughed.)

The RNC jumped into bed with the teabaggers in 2010 and when they woke up they were married to something very ugly....the post election story will be how they divorce them without having a psychopathic ex a la Fatal Attraction!

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The party's over! Funny how nobody is running as "The True Tea Party" candidate! (Original Post) K8-EEE Nov 2012 OP

The GOP=teabaggers. They are not a faction. Teabaggers are the core of the GOP now. AlinPA Nov 2012 #1

Hardcore teahadist are now "loosely" affiliated with them now. Arctic Dave Nov 2012 #2

Yes, the odds are better than even aletier_v Nov 2012 #3

AlinPA

(15,071 posts)

1. The GOP=teabaggers. They are not a faction. Teabaggers are the core of the GOP now.

Reply to K8-EEE (Original post)

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 12:47 AM

Nov 2012

Arctic Dave

(13,812 posts)

2. Hardcore teahadist are now "loosely" affiliated with them now.

Reply to K8-EEE (Original post)

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 01:03 AM

Nov 2012

Sorry guys, you can't cover-up that kind of crazy or hatred.

aletier_v

(1,773 posts)

3. Yes, the odds are better than even

Reply to K8-EEE (Original post)

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 01:05 AM

Nov 2012

that a long-term trend reversal is beginning.

Tea Party and Occupy are two sides of the same coin, to some extent.

It's quite possibly you'll see a portion of Tea Party go Occupy.

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