I'm wondering if you can back any of this up.

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I think they're quotes from Reid & Pelosi. Sounds like somebody tapped into one of their backroom discussions.

I see it less that the Tea Party wants to align itself with the Republicans and more that the Republicans want to envelope and benefit from the Tea Party's passion and momentum.

You are completely correct - the modern national Republican party is a joke. It is a party full of corrupt power-hungry politicians who care more about corporate interests than fiscal responsibility. It is a party that cares more about raping the vote of a moral section of the population than it does about individual liberty and freedom. It is, in my opinion, a white washed tomb. Clean on the outside but much different on the inside.

As you can tell, I'm not a fan of the national Republican party. Some of the state Republican parties are decent. Texas, for example, has a Republican party that is staunchly conservative in a fiscal sense.

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I don't think the Republicans are hijacking the Tea Party movement, I think it's the other way around. The Tea Party is going to run conservative candidates against Republican incumbants such as John McCain. In my town there was a purge of the Republican leadership.

.......This^

The problem with the Tea Baggers is that they are a frustrated and angry loosely associated group of people made up of libertarians and disaffected Republicans... who did not exist prior to Obama entering office. The problems they rail against have existed for as long as I can remember but they said nothing from one year to the next. It was acceptable because the main man was white.

This tells me that they're completely in disarray and confusion after having a black man or half black man actually win the Presidency. They then heap the blame on him for the ills created by the very people they have been placing in the Oval Office, House, and Senate for years and years. On top of that, throw out assertions about hius birth place, planned operation of death panels, and that he's both a Nazi and Marxist. The latter showing the loss of some serious IQ points or closed head injuries.

And they want their country back? It's right under their feet where it's always been. They just never looked to try and fix it.

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Who says.? Besides those who constantly harass and bully,
even stalk Republicans like Palin and Bachmann.
Have you interviewed or heard any interview from a Tea Party
member.
I say Tea Party members are merely concerned Conservatives.
Some Libertarian and some Independents { moderates }.
But mostly Republicans who are perturbed.
They've had enough.
They are not gonna lay down like sleeping dogs.
Because that is what drove Obama and Pelosi and Reid.
Just putsch their far left agenda on the juvenile messaging that
They Won,now get over it.
About THE most ill-advised and juvenile agenda in Political History.
They Won,Now get over it.
Ed Schultz is literally running with that lame bully pulpit.

That's what I see on a local level. In FL, there has been a tremendous influx of Tea Party ideals into the local Rep party...which is getting alot of motivated new blood with strong fiscally conservative ideas.

The Tea Partiers are reforming the Republican party from the inside out.

Look at how Rubio is doing against Crist.

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Buy a clue.

The only people mentioning race are the people who hate the Tea Party movement.

Haters are racists.

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