Can we all admit the Tea Party was a massive failure?

[BallsBrunswick]

Obama got re-elected, the country has largely tuned out the fanatical elements of the right wing and this astroturf fake political arm of the Republican party has been useless and is now a punchline. I think it's safe to say the Tea Party was a massive failure and alienated the majority of Americans from the Right Wing.

 

[Greenbeard]

They kept the GOP from taking the Senate two cycles in a row. I'd call that a big success.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

If we use the election as a ruler, a way of judging their effectiveness, then, yep, they're a massive failure.

If we use the results of the promise of jobs, which is how they got elected, and we know that not one of them introduced a jobs bill or voted on one, then, yep, they're a failure.

BUT, if we consider their fun hats and the way they desecrated the flag, well, in those ways, they succeeded.

Any way you look at it, they're "maroons and "loosers" and good riddance.

 

[jillian]

Obama got re-elected, the country has largely tuned out the fanatical elements of the right wing and this astroturf fake political arm of the Republican party has been useless and is now a punchline. I think it's safe to say the Tea Party was a massive failure and alienated the majority of Americans from the Right Wing.

from what i hear, boehner is doubling down on stupid.

 

[NYcarbineer]

The Tea party was doomed once the social conservatives annexed it.

 

[tinydancer]

Tea Party took the House in 2010.

Romney shunned the Tea Party AND all Conservatives. We still tried to back him. But think about it. He went on not one conservative talk show.

Then he ended up dissing all the Paulites.

See ya. I know why he lost.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Obama got re-elected, the country has largely tuned out the fanatical elements of the right wing and this astroturf fake political arm of the Republican party has been useless and is now a punchline. I think it's safe to say the Tea Party was a massive failure and alienated the majority of Americans from the Right Wing.

The tea party was astroturf paid for by people like Dick Army and the Koch Brothers who thought that they could buy elections.

Only problem is.................the teabaggers ended up picking lots of far right wing radicals who in their primaries actually beat the Republican who would have had a fighting chance at winning over the Democrat. Wanna talk about Sharon Angle? Christine O'donnell?

Face it GOP, the tea party is the reason you're going to go the way of the Whigs.

 

[B. Kidd]

Seemingly, a current failure. But, not a massive one. I give them kudos for instilling the mantra of TEA = Taxed Enough Already. As the Democrat 'entitlement society' continues to fail (see Europe, already in another recession), and the Dem Admin. tries to plug the dykes of footloose and fancy free spending to support runaway entitlements; the TEA mantra is already emblazoned in most of our memory banks.

 

[whitehall]

Obama got re-elected, the country has largely tuned out the fanatical elements of the right wing and this astroturf fake political arm of the Republican party has been useless and is now a punchline. I think it's safe to say the Tea Party was a massive failure and alienated the majority of Americans from the Right Wing.

The real question is why the left hates and fears the Tea Party so much but admires rapists and drug abusers and criminals in the OWS. Anger, hatred and bigotry seems to be a big part of the left wing base these days.

 

[tinydancer]

Obama got re-elected, the country has largely tuned out the fanatical elements of the right wing and this astroturf fake political arm of the Republican party has been useless and is now a punchline. I think it's safe to say the Tea Party was a massive failure and alienated the majority of Americans from the Right Wing.

from what i hear, boehner is doubling down on stupid.

Want to have some fun Jillian?

Christie first to go for what he did to stabbing Romney in the back.

Do you know who Billy is? Cunningham?

Boehner is down for the count. Next on target. He promised Billy if he didn't live up to his promises, he'd nuke him.

Would you like more?

 

[occupied]

I feel that there were some honest intentions at the beginning among individual local groups but they were required to sell their soul to the establishment to go national. A good example of this is that many of them were initially against corporate socialism, especially TARP, and in the end they morphed into a hardcore corporatist mouthpiece that was all about corporate socialism. What business does a grassroots constitutionalist movement have to do with things like striking down the inheritance tax and cutting the capital gains tax? It turned into such bullshit that one wonders if any of them ever gave a damn about anything other than beating Obama and were willing throw all their treasured individualist beliefs overboard.

 

[tinydancer]

Obama got re-elected, the country has largely tuned out the fanatical elements of the right wing and this astroturf fake political arm of the Republican party has been useless and is now a punchline. I think it's safe to say the Tea Party was a massive failure and alienated the majority of Americans from the Right Wing.

The tea party was astroturf paid for by people like Dick Army and the Koch Brothers who thought that they could buy elections.

Only problem is.................the teabaggers ended up picking lots of far right wing radicals who in their primaries actually beat the Republican who would have had a fighting chance at winning over the Democrat. Wanna talk about Sharon Angle? Christine O'donnell?

Face it GOP, the tea party is the reason you're going to go the way of the Whigs.

No back to the beginning. It's urban versus rural. And it's a whole batch of people taking handouts.

Come on we know this. When you give people things for free they take it. And they will vote for you.

 

[B. Kidd]

Obama got re-elected, the country has largely tuned out the fanatical elements of the right wing and this astroturf fake political arm of the Republican party has been useless and is now a punchline. I think it's safe to say the Tea Party was a massive failure and alienated the majority of Americans from the Right Wing.

The real question is why the left hates and fears the Tea Party so much but admires rapists and drug abusers and criminals in the OWS. Anger, hatred and bigotry seems to be a big part of the left wing base these days.

Gotta give Obie credit for perfecting 'identity politics' which translates into diviseness. The upside is, given the popular election vote numbers only, he ONLY has a slim mandate to rule.

 

[gwennie]

Obama got re-elected, the country has largely tuned out the fanatical elements of the right wing and this astroturf fake political arm of the Republican party has been useless and is now a punchline. I think it's safe to say the Tea Party was a massive failure and alienated the majority of Americans from the Right Wing.

But tuning in to the fanatical left is ok? Yea....right. It's also a given that the fanatical left has alienated most of the country. The only reason obama is still in office is because of voter fraud.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Obama got re-elected, the country has largely tuned out the fanatical elements of the right wing and this astroturf fake political arm of the Republican party has been useless and is now a punchline. I think it's safe to say the Tea Party was a massive failure and alienated the majority of Americans from the Right Wing.

The tea party was astroturf paid for by people like Dick Army and the Koch Brothers who thought that they could buy elections.

Only problem is.................the teabaggers ended up picking lots of far right wing radicals who in their primaries actually beat the Republican who would have had a fighting chance at winning over the Democrat. Wanna talk about Sharon Angle? Christine O'donnell?

Face it GOP, the tea party is the reason you're going to go the way of the Whigs.

No back to the beginning. It's urban versus rural. And it's a whole batch of people taking handouts.

Come on we know this. When you give people things for free they take it. And they will vote for you.

Tell ya what...............we'll take cuts in people welfare, if the "job creators" would take a cut on corporate welfare.

BTW...........................what about the military? Are those people "freeloaders"?

 

[tinydancer]

Obama got re-elected, the country has largely tuned out the fanatical elements of the right wing and this astroturf fake political arm of the Republican party has been useless and is now a punchline. I think it's safe to say the Tea Party was a massive failure and alienated the majority of Americans from the Right Wing.

The real question is why the left hates and fears the Tea Party so much but admires rapists and drug abusers and criminals in the OWS. Anger, hatred and bigotry seems to be a big part of the left wing base these days.

Well said.

 

[Samson]

Difficult to tell the success or failure of something that never really existed outside the imagination of talk radio hosts.

Similarly, I perfer to target the "Wall Street Protest" movement as a massive failure.


Conversely, in the real world, I see growing govenment expenditures (regardless of partisan responsibility)) as a massive failure elipsing everything, real and imagined, and wonder why, with this 800 lb gorrilla in the room, anyone would be focused on something as insignifiant as either the Tea Party or Wall Street Protest.

 

[gwennie]

Obama got re-elected, the country has largely tuned out the fanatical elements of the right wing and this astroturf fake political arm of the Republican party has been useless and is now a punchline. I think it's safe to say the Tea Party was a massive failure and alienated the majority of Americans from the Right Wing.

The tea party was astroturf paid for by people like Dick Army and the Koch Brothers who thought that they could buy elections.

Only problem is.................the teabaggers ended up picking lots of far right wing radicals who in their primaries actually beat the Republican who would have had a fighting chance at winning over the Democrat. Wanna talk about Sharon Angle? Christine O'donnell?

Face it GOP, the tea party is the reason you're going to go the way of the Whigs.

And the far left is a bunch of crazies who have appointed enough nutbags to cover their asses for the time being. Don't count on it being that way for long. Rationality always rights the ship, so to speak. And it's always a sad and tumultious time for the liberals when that happens.

 

[occupied]

Obama got re-elected, the country has largely tuned out the fanatical elements of the right wing and this astroturf fake political arm of the Republican party has been useless and is now a punchline. I think it's safe to say the Tea Party was a massive failure and alienated the majority of Americans from the Right Wing.

The tea party was astroturf paid for by people like Dick Army and the Koch Brothers who thought that they could buy elections.

Only problem is.................the teabaggers ended up picking lots of far right wing radicals who in their primaries actually beat the Republican who would have had a fighting chance at winning over the Democrat. Wanna talk about Sharon Angle? Christine O'donnell?

Face it GOP, the tea party is the reason you're going to go the way of the Whigs.

And the far left is a bunch of crazies who have appointed enough nutbags to cover their asses for the time being. Don't count on it being that way for long. Rationality always rights the ship, so to speak. And it's always a sad and tumultious time for the liberals when that happens.

Projection, rationality is righting the ship as we speak.

 

[B. Kidd]

The tea party was astroturf paid for by people like Dick Army and the Koch Brothers who thought that they could buy elections.

Only problem is.................the teabaggers ended up picking lots of far right wing radicals who in their primaries actually beat the Republican who would have had a fighting chance at winning over the Democrat. Wanna talk about Sharon Angle? Christine O'donnell?

Face it GOP, the tea party is the reason you're going to go the way of the Whigs.

And the far left is a bunch of crazies who have appointed enough nutbags to cover their asses for the time being. Don't count on it being that way for long. Rationality always rights the ship, so to speak. And it's always a sad and tumultious time for the liberals when that happens.

Projection, rationality is righting the ship as we speak.

Yeah.....you're real rational.......as rational as your 'image'.........