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Yeah, but the Tea Party are working on correcting that. If you don't sing from the Tea hymnal, then they will drive you from office and the party. So if you are a Repub and you aren't one of the batshit evangelical homophobes, then they are gunning for you. If you want to stop people associating Repubs with the Tea Party, you better clean house and get those Jesus Gun freaks out of the fucking party because they are poison, and spreading.

...and how exactly would you suggest that the Republicans force a bunch of people to change their affiliation? And I seriously doubt that they can or will drive every Republican non-Tea-Partier out of office, mostly because no group of voters has that much power. In their area? Yeah, you might not get elected. Elsewhere? You've probably got as good a shot as anyone else.

Sounds like a second amendment solution is needed there.

Seriously though, they are targeting every elected Repub who breaks ranks with a Primary challenger. They don't have to replace every candidate at every level, they just need the individual candidates to think they will challenge them. The GOP is seeing the Prisoners Dilemma play out within their own party. If the non crazy guys held together then the Tea Guys couldn't take over, but if even one breaks ranks and falls in line with the crazies, then the rest have to as well because suddenly they are vulnerable. Oh, and the pockets of the guys backing them are deep. The rank and file are just canon fodder and whipped up morons, the guys bankrolling them like Kochs are running the show.

Irony is, the way the GOP have hyper-gerrymandered their backyards has actually made it easier for an internal primary challenger to unseat a sitting GOPer than a straight up real election. The Tea Party guy is in and the moderate (if there is such a thing as a moderate GOPer) is out before it even gets to the electorate.

Edited 2013-10-12 20:55 (UTC)

What whack-a-doodle news source are you getting your information from? o.O

Ehhhhh. I mean, they won't drive every single non-Tea Partier out of office, but they'll damn sure try. They will primary pretty much any Republican who is insufficiently right-wing, and any such challenger will usually have the advantage of massive amounts of money, and the advantages of gerrymandering and running in an election which only the die-hards are going to vote in. And anyone who wants to please the base of the party will have to be willing to kowtow to them, and that's most prospective politicians. Similarly, they can't drive anyone out of the party, but they will make it as unwelcoming as possible.

I'm really not sure what your point is here, honestly. I would tend to assume that you're defending the idea that non-Tea Party Republicans still have a home in the Republican Party. Here's the thing, though: even if the tendency is not absolute, it is still absolutely the case that there is a tendency towards the outside, and that the Tea Party is trying to make the Republican Party over in its own image, and frequently succeeding, and that this is especially true in the context of national politics and Washington. Even if that's not true on the edges, it's still true in general. The Tea Party is changing the Republican Party.

I don't know how this would be done, but I think the Tea Party is different from average Republicans in a lot of very important ways. It's distressing that the Republican party isn't making an effort to distance itself from the Tea Party, at least on certain issues. It's not like there's a shortage of people who just vote for the person in the Republican column, not necessarily knowing where they stand on things. But there's a lot of diversity in the party now that needs to be made clearer.

I'm not a Republican but I live in a conservative area. In fact, right now there are a number of Tea Party candidates running for school board, basically with the goal to take money away from the schools (which have already been stripped of funding in recent years to the point that almost all extracurricular activities have been cut and all sports have become pay-to-play, which many can't afford). Unfortunately they seem to have a lot of support because they are portraying themselves as Republicans and not fully disclosing their intentions with funding, which only people who have investigated/been involved in PTA or school board in the past seem to realize. And people are going to vote for them because they're Republican. I'm very worried about this and wish the Republican party would distance itself a little from the Tea Party candidates, who are much more extreme than the party has historically been and are doing a lot of damage (not just to my community, I'm sure it's communities all around the country that is being hurt in this way).

I think that if the more moderate Republicans would actually vote in the primaries and not just the general elections it might help. One of the reason the extreme right has been able to get such a hold on the party is the more moderate elected officals are scared of a primary challenge.

Q: What do you call a moderate Republican?
A: A Democrat.

Q:What do you call a radical leftist Democrat?
A: A Right-wing European.

yes, radical leftist Democrats like Golden Dawn

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