Originally Posted by SpankyTheWhale

The Tea Party is a rebellion against the Republican Party, not a supportive movement.

Originally Posted by Smartmouthwoman

So typical of liberals. Find a convenient 'catch phrase' like tea party and put everybody who disagrees with their agenda in that little cubbyhole. Ahhhh, if it was only that simple.

Personally, I'll be voting a straight conservative ticket in upcoming elections. I don't care much about party affiliation and I don't think most of the 'tea party' folks do either.

But if it makes you feel more secure to think of them as 'Republicans' -- go right ahead and think that. Chances are about 100-1 that we'll see no conservative Democrats on the ballots in November, eh?

Originally Posted by SamS

There's a lot of problems with the racist tea party.

The tea partiers are a bunch of loud mouth racist bullies that want power & force their agenda onto the GOP.

There is in-fighting between their groups, lawsuits etc among the tea partiers.

The KKK loves their rallies, as they use them to recruit new members.

Homeland Security has to monitor their events.

That's the biggest mess I've seen so far.

Originally Posted by stekim

Yet the tea party folks are mostly Republican and will vote Republican next election. That's not really rebellion, is it?

Originally Posted by Snapple

Puuuhlease.

It's practically a sub-party of the Republican party.

Originally Posted by SpankyTheWhale

The Tea Party is a rebellion against the Republican Party, not a supportive movement.

Originally Posted by Hard-Driver

The problem with the tea party is that they are not an independent party, but have closely aligned themselves with republicans.

Unlike the reform party, formed by the Ross Perot followers, that stood on many similar principles, the tea party seems to lack the will to be an independent party. They really hope to influence the Republicans, who they align themselves, with and hurt the democrats.

But if you look at their beliefs, like a balanced budget, there is virtually no historical reason to align with republicans at all, they have historically been the most fiscally irresponsible party when it comes to deficits.

And I gut they align with republicans for their "conservative values" but that is the biggest problem. The laws of this nations should be based upon constitutional values, not some groups personal view of moral values.

Originally Posted by Tarheeler

Unfortunately Spanky, the new "official" tea party organization doesn't agree.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...-organization/

They might have started out with good intentions, but they seem to have gotten lost along the way.