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re: McConnell destroys teadoucher in primary...poliboard remarkably silent

Posted on 5/20/14 at 9:28 pm to
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 5/20/14 at 9:28 pm to
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The tea party seem to be the RINOs...they hate "the establishment" and the powers that be in the Republican party, but they don't want to leave?


Because they want to become the establishment. Those who wear the banner are the establishment in waiting.
"Tea party" is a funding operation more than a political philosophy today.
Posted by Mohican
Member since Nov 2012
6179 posts
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:13 pm to
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Because they want to become the establishment. Those who wear the banner are the establishment in waiting.
"Tea party" is a funding operation more than a political philosophy today.




But they are campaigning on something that differentiates them, are they not?

Sure, they may become the "establishment" if people vote them in... but what if, hypothetically, once they became the establishment party they vote for term limits for Congress?
Posted by Taxing Authority
Houston
Member since Feb 2010
57407 posts
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:22 pm to
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Because they want to become the establishment. Those who wear the banner are the establishment in waiting.
That's going to be true of any counter movement.

Hell, look at 60s radicals like Bill Ayers and . They HATED the man. Until their man, became The Man. Now... they love them some government.

It's a continual cycle.

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"Tea party" is a funding operation more than a political philosophy today.
No political philosophy survives without funding.
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