From the article:The establishment still doesn't get it. They think that the TEA Parties are a fad and that we'll go back to sleep now that we've "won" this round.
But an increasingly vocal segment of the GOP is worried that the conservative populism of 2010 is distracting the party from its more pressing priorities. “We may be confusing a clearing in the forest for being out of the woods,” says Republican strategist John Weaver, who notes young voters’ disapproval of some of the party’s social agenda. “There is a ticking demographic time bomb working against us, and if we don’t correct that problem very soon, we could wind up back where we were four years ago.” What the party needs now, argue supporters like Weaver, is a leader who can negotiate a treaty of sorts between the right-wing base and forward-thinking moderates. The GOP, in other words, needs an ambassador.
What the party needs now is to realize that the reason they lost in 2006 and 2008 is because they spent 6 years trying to be liberals. They spent like drunken sailors. Actually, they spent like Democrats. Drunken sailors only waste their own money. They couldn't find enough fiscal restraint to make permanent changes to the tax code.
The Bush tax hikes that we just narrowly averted (by delaying them for the next lame duck Congress) were the result of Progressive Republican spending started under George W. Bush. Spending that most of the "leadership" in the Republican party voted for, supported and will likely continue in spite of the TEA party victories this year.
TEA Parties need to get into the Republican party structure and drag the party back to some strong conservative principles. If that doesn't work, there's always the possibility of a third party forming. I don't think that would be a good thing, but these "Republican Strategists" need to realize, if they push the TEA Partiers into a third party, it's the Republicans that will lose big.
People like this "Strategist," John Weaver will destroy the Republican party and quicken the fall of these United States.
I strongly recommend any "third party" type TEA Partiers GO THERE FIRST.
Glad someone else picked up on that, and read the whole article.