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Is the Tea Party Relevant Anymore?

Is the Tea Party relevant anymore?

  • Yes

    Votes: 22 43.1%
  • No

    Votes: 18 35.3%
  • They will be in 2016

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • Never were

    Votes: 6 11.8%
  • What's the Tea Party?

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • other - please explain

    Votes: 4 7.8%

  • Total voters
    51
The Tea Party was a true force in the beginning, then it got hijacked by GOP celebrity and the mainstream media. I think the people who are true to its principles should keep engaging in activism, but they should dissociate from the Tea Party title.

For the record though, I think Occupy Wallstreet had a much better impact because it showed people where the real power and corruption resides: in our financial system.

If only the two movements could put aside their differences and get together. The one thing this government is afraid of the most is that people will stop their partisan bickering and unite against authority.
 
The problem is I heard the exact same kind of rhetoric regarding 2012.
Me too. That's what rhetoric will get ya. But the cracks in the left's hold have already begun to appear with the sequester and the gun initiative. Give it time. We'll see.
 
Somewhat. Not as much as they used to.
 
I disagree here, without the tea party the GOP would have never been able to take back the House in 2010. The tea party was very relevant to that election. But they have weaken somewhat, still a force to be reckoned with, but on a steady decline.

That is fine, but I still think they are republicans and the "lesser of two evils" ubber conservative dems and independents.
 
Of course they are. Look who won the CPAC straw poll. The same person gave the Tea Party response to Pres Obama's State of the Union address.
 
The tea party as you see it with the social right win is irrelevant. The tea party of 2008 which became the Liberty movement for Libertarian minded Republicans is very much relevant.
 
The Tea Party was demonstrating at the Federal Building where we were also demonstrating about 5 years ago. We talked, had civil discussions with several of the Tea Party demonstrators. It was very interesting. Their leadership understood and could project what the results would be from a successful Tea Party agenda; but, their demonstrators had no clue as to what the result would be. In particular the post-Vietnam vet poisoned by disposing of Agent Orange and now owing about $90,000 for the last hospital visit ... The Tea Party is losing these members over time.
 
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Unfortunately not on a national level. State and local, yes.
 
Yes, they are relevant but then mostly in a negative way. They will alienate more and more moderates from the Republican party.
 
I heard on television that the "official" Tea Party hasn't made an "official statement" or updated their website since July 2012.

I do not know that to be true as I can't say I have ever been to their site.

I think that, as for an "official," organized political party, the Tea Party is pretty much kaput. However, the ideology, the banner to gather around, still lives on in the outer right fringes of American society.
 
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Once the morons like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Michelle Backmann, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry and that ilk got "connected" to the Tea Party they lost all hope of being a formidable influence on things beyond just being a splinter group.

It's a shame to because the initial idea was sound and reasonably understandable.

Once the radical religious nutters jumped on board and hijacked the party for their own self-promotion the tea party lost all credibility and any chance of being taken seriously by the swing-voting crowd.
 
Quite relevant. Their strategy seems to be working, to an extent I still find surprising. If someone told me five years agio that people like Rand Paul, Christ Christie, Nikki Haley and Marco Rubio will be the new face of the GOP, I would laugh.

At some point, it appeared that the tea party movement is close to imploding, having been "adopted" by various opportunists ranging from bigoted to clownish - the caricature drawn by the joint effort of MSNBC and FOXNews could have become a self-fulfilling prophecy. But maybe not.
 
Once the morons like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Michelle Backmann, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry and that ilk got "connected" to the Tea Party they lost all hope of being a formidable influence on things beyond just being a splinter group.
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Have you actually met a single tea party activist - in real life, not on TV screen - who gives a hoot about Bachmann or Santorum?
 
I heard on television that the "official" Tea Party hasn't made an "official statement" or updated their website since July 2012.

I do not know that to be true

It is absolutely true, for a very simple reason: The Official Tea Party never had existed.

Tea parties are local organizations bound by common goals (fiscal discipline, free-market economics, constitutional rights, truce on "social" and other divisive issues) - a loose (but surprisingly stable) network, not a "party" in the conventional sense. They operate by identifyng and promoting candidates for local and national offices who appear significantly preferable to the alternatives, accroding to their priorities (usually Republicans of a particular kind, a few Democrats in the Rockies, but never their own - the experience of marginalized Libertarian, Reform, etc parties was not lost on them)
 
It is absolutely true, for a very simple reason: The Official Tea Party never had existed.

Tea parties are local organizations bound by common goals (fiscal discipline, free-market economics, constitutional rights, truce on "social" and other divisive issues) - a loose (but surprisingly stable) network, not a "party" in the conventional sense. They operate by identifyng and promoting candidates for local and national offices who appear significantly preferable to the alternatives, accroding to their priorities (usually Republicans of a particular kind, a few Democrats in the Rockies, but never their own - the experience of marginalized Libertarian, Reform, etc parties was not lost on them)

This is exactly why the Lefties are going crazy about it. They have no central figure to lash out at.
 
I think it is pretty convenient the Tea Party has an identity during campaigns and candidates express alliance with TP, then when one says something really whacky, suddenly there is no tea party, it is just a bunch of happy guys that hate taxes.
This is exactly why the Lefties are going crazy about it. They have no central figure to lash out at.
 
It is absolutely true, for a very simple reason: The Official Tea Party never had existed.

Tea parties are local organizations bound by common goals (fiscal discipline, free-market economics, constitutional rights, truce on "social" and other divisive issues) - a loose (but surprisingly stable) network, not a "party" in the conventional sense. They operate by identifyng and promoting candidates for local and national offices who appear significantly preferable to the alternatives, accroding to their priorities (usually Republicans of a particular kind, a few Democrats in the Rockies, but never their own - the experience of marginalized Libertarian, Reform, etc parties was not lost on them)
Yes. But again, small in number. A demonstration may have a few true Tea Party people that accept and understand Tea Party principals and objectives. The others carrying the ‘Don't Tread On Me’ flags don't have a clue what the objectives will mean to them.
 
Yes. But again, small in number. A demonstration may have a few true Tea Party people that accept and understand Tea Party principals and objectives. The others carrying the ‘Don't Tread On Me’ flags don't have a clue what the objectives will mean to them.

You wish.
 
Have you actually met a single tea party activist - in real life, not on TV screen - who gives a hoot about Bachmann or Santorum?

Not about Bachmann, but about Santorum, yes.
 
they remind me of Hezbollah ranting and raving in the street.

have you ever seen whats in the crowd...

wow...
 
Yes. But again, small in number. A demonstration may have a few true Tea Party people that accept and understand Tea Party principals and objectives. The others carrying the ‘Don't Tread On Me’ flags don't have a clue what the objectives will mean to them.

I'm not sure what "true Tea Party person" is, but then again, the Tea Party isn't an official party yet is it? I thought it was loosely affiliated but independent groups.
 
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