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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
This isn't 2008, it's 2010 and everything has changed.
Seen the numbers on the Tea Party Movement?
You can call them right wing, you can call them a bunch of pissed off republicans
End result, they as making a difference. And doing so without violence or threatening people, unlike the Black Panthers.
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And they will vote Republican 95% of the time. Just like these new left leaning independents will vote Democrat 95% of the time.
Nothing has really changed in the last two years other than how people refer to themselves. Hell, even the so called "anti-incumbent" feelings that are supposedly filling the nation doesn't really exist. In the primary elections there were 84 incumbent candidates. 82 of them won. 1 had to go to a run-off vote and the only one that actually lost is a guy considered to be the most corrupt politician in the nation. That sounds to me like not much has changed.
Also, are these the same non-threatening Tea Party members who screamed racial names at black congressman and spit on Barney Frank? That seems like it might be at least a little bit threatening to me.
As I have said all along I will be impressed by the Tea Party when they rally behind real independent candidates and help them get elected. Until then, to me, they are just another branch of the Republican party.