they are not a registered political party. There is no Tea Party line in NY. Ridiculous.
Not sure this is designed to make Rubio look like a moderate, although he is certainly trying to to-image himself. They have allowed this non party party to respond before. Remember "crazty-eyes" Bachmann?

These are both Republican rebuttals no matter what they like to call themselves within their own party. Can we get another democratic point of view in the interest of objectivity and fairness?

Maybe Bernie or someone from the Progressive Caucus.

And I predict it will get worse. These people are nuts.

The responses are nothing more than criticism. If the teabaggers are being given this much legitimacy, then they should be separated from the Republican party, period. When did the networks give time to other offshoots of the Democratic party, such as the Green party?

they are being stupid.

President makes speech. Media gives republicans two free responses. Democrats should demand free rebuttal time.

Five words: Fuck you Rubio and Paul

Michelle Bachmann
Rick Santorum
Newt Gingrich
Sarah Palin
Rick Perry
And Herman Cain give a response too. Might as well let whole clown car into the circus.

to an FDR "State of the Union" address ...

looked at the wrong camera and other weird shit.

The Tea Party shouldn't have a response at all, unless they officially represent the GOP.

the more people will reject them. Let 'em put up their craziest, looniest one. Bachman did her cause a great deal of damage.

It was Herman Cain who did it last year:

And though it’s not the first time that Tea Party conservatives have splintered off from the party establishment with a separate response to the president’s address, the dueling counter-arguments come in the midst of a civil war within the GOP.

Last year, failed presidential candidate Herman Cain was tapped by the Tea Party for the gig, following up Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann who delivered the rebuttal the year prior

IIRC, CNN was the only network to cover Bachman. Don't remember if anyone covered Cain, but it likely would be CNN.

have we even HAD rebuttals for the State of the Union? This seems to me an invention of the 24 hour news cycle...

It's all just kabuki theater at this point...the POTUS will say what he says, they will do the same, and shit still won't change for any of us here in the trenches....

If you totaled up the IQs of all Tea Party members in America it wouldn't equal the combined IQ total of any three posters here on DU.

The nutjobs aren't happy with the establishment pick of Marco and want someone even more extreme than him to give the rebuttal instead.

It doesn't really matter to me. Obama has more intelligence in his turds than Marco and Rand combined.

It's quite obvious that they're trying to win over the Latino vote while maintaining their racist tea party base.

Lots of luck with that!

Pretty much all the other side will do is criticize whatever the President says. They've been at it for 4 years and counting. Nothing new.

It should be tier for two for both parties.