The GOP should wise up and see that extremes of the Tea Party are not working.
Since what the Tea Party wants more than anything else is smaller Government and some fiscal sanity in the amount of deficit we're running up...neither of which we've even TRIED it's hard to characterize their views as not working.
The TEA Party would have been the best thing EVER if they had hung more of their identity on fiscal sanity and a whole lot less on pushing the government into our bedrooms.
Politics and religion do NOT mix well.