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Will the Republican Party split up?

Will the GOP split up in the next 5 years?

  • Yes, the Tea Party will leave and form a third party

    Votes: 4 9.3%

  • Yes, the moderate Republicans will leave and form a centrist party

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes, the libertarian Republicans will join the Libertarian party and make it stronger

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No, they'll just keep making us all miserable

    Votes: 38 88.4%

  • doofus/numbers

    Votes: 1 2.3%
  • Total voters
    43
"“When either party is doing the right thing, the Tea Party stands with them," she said. "And when either party is doing the wrong thing, we hold them accountable.”"

I honestly don't know the answer to this but has the Tea Party EVER stood with the Democrats on anything?
 
In all seriousness, I don't think the Tea Party has enough big picture thinkers to go through with this. If they had any appeal to Blue Dogs, maybe, but I think there are enough that realize that nationally they would just fracture the conservative vote and hand elections to Democrats. The Tea Party will continue to thrive in the house where there are bulletproof conservative districts that will keep goading them on. Even in 2010, the Tea Party couldn't really get any traction in Senate races.
 
LOL no. Everyone involved is far more worried about obtaining and keeping their own power, than what's good for the country or what falls in line with their "ideology".

They're all whores. Both sides. Their ideology is a PR message designed to keep them in office. Something to keep the peasants happy as they acquire power and money.
 
I think this whole shutdown drama was a serious attempt by the Pubs to keep the TPers in the fold. If they split, neither faction will have much hope anytime soon of doing much that's not local/regional.
 
I wonder if the Tea Party will be the catalyst that eventually gets Congress to change some of the rules regarding elections. The TP isn't helping the GOP at this point, so would the moderates ever consider teaming up with the Dems to combat what could become a common foe? Politics can make strange bedfellows.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
"“When either party is doing the right thing, the Tea Party stands with them," she said. "And when either party is doing the wrong thing, we hold them accountable.”"

I honestly don't know the answer to this but has the Tea Party EVER stood with the Democrats on anything?
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In Georgia, the tea party is with the Sierra Club and other environmental groups on supporting solar and other renewable energy sources in the state. They see Southern Company as a monopoly and want free competition.
 
DeacKillsaDevil said:
In Georgia, the tea party is with the Sierra Club and other environmental groups on supporting solar and other renewable energy sources in the state. They see Southern Company as a monopoly and want free competition.
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Georgia is the only example I've seen. You'd think there would have been some partnership with Occupy but that never happened.
 
One thing that's really pissed me off about this band of fuckwit rubes is that they're stolen the name- Tea Party- and have utterly twisted its historical meaning and importance. The original "tea party" stood against a foreign ruler and fought against taxation without representation. It was about a government-created monopoly that used the East India Company to corner the tea market.

It wasn't a fight against their own elected government passing laws via a democratic system. It wasn't a group of assholes throwing a tantrum over not getting their way in that democratic system. That's what this current group is doing. And their attempt at co-opting the name is ignorant, misleading, and disingenuous.
 
It's a two-party system. Campaign finance realties virtually guarantee it. There will never be third party of even minor consequence until we have campaign finance reform.
 
Arlington, the problem in the US is third parties aren't following the plans from other countries. in other places, small parties start locally. Then they grow to bigger seats and finally they go national.

In the US they start at POTUS or other major offices before they ever had a base from which to grow.
 
There is no chance for either in the US. You can't even run for city council in the current climate without serious corporate investment in your campaign. That corporate investment is strictly limited to the two major parties, because they are both corporate-controlled to the bone, and that's how special interests like the system.
 
94Deac said:
One thing that's really pissed me off about this band of fuckwit rubes is that they're stolen the name- Tea Party- and have utterly twisted its historical meaning and importance. The original "tea party" stood against a foreign ruler and fought against taxation without representation. It was about a government-created monopoly that used the East India Company to corner the tea market.
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That's exactly what the Tea Party thinks they're doing. They're standing against a Kenyan socialist ruler and taxation by a government elected by the 47% of moochers and big government liberals who don't represent them. They believe Obamacare is a government-created monopoly that will be used to corner the health care market.

From their perspective, the Tea Party name makes sense. And with that I've probably given that correlation more thought than any Tea Party member has.
 
It depends on where. Maybe not in NYC, DC, Philly, you'd be right. Here in HB (a city off about 200,000), you don't that much to run for City Council. There a probably thousands of places like this around the country.
 
PhDeac said:
Georgia is the only example I've seen. You'd think there would have been some partnership with Occupy but that never happened.
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In the Bay Area, the Occupy Movement was a coalition of anarchists and homeless people. The homeless joined in because it's much safer to sleep in a group encampment than alone in a doorway somewhere. If the Tea Party believes in bootstraps over safety nets, they're never going to work in any kind of coalition to help the homeless. There's no Occupy political activity because anarchists don't believe in any government. There's a core group of 500-1000 anarchists in the Bay Area that are involved in every riot or violent protest.
 
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