[VU4G10]

The Tea Party and the GOP: a marriage that isn’t working for Democrats.

[Tailback]

Christopher R. Barron is a Republican political consultant and co-founder of GOProud, a national organization for gay conservatives and their allies.

Nothing more really needs to be said.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think the GOP is dead. Romney's loss in Nov 2012 will make that clear.

I'm waiting for the Whigs to rise again.

[FrankR]

It has been said that if you want a successful marriage, it should be a 50-50 proposition. But those with successful marriages say it's more like 60-40...each spouse giving 60% effort and only expecting the other to give 40%.

That goes to the old business adage, "under-promise and over-deliver".

Insofar as the TEA party/GOP nuptuals, the TEA party (in the past) has given 90% and the GOPe, only 10%. The GOPe doesn't like the TEA party anymore than the liberals do...the TEA party steals their thunder - not in an intentional way, but an "over-deliver" way.

To my dismay, however, the TEA party has been quite dormant lately. Where are the crowds that took DC by storm in 2010? Where is the show of unity and patriotism?

I think it's time to fire up those buses and high-tail it to DC again...at least sometime before November. Maybe that's it...they're waiting on fair weather.

In typical abuser fashion, obama has heaped turmoil upon most Americans for three years, and is now playing nice, pumping phoney polls, and issueing phoney figures to woo the country back to his side...but, it ain't gonna work.

The curtain has been pulled back for too long, and most of us know that the "wizard" is nothing more than a con man, a con-man of many facets.

The GOP and the TEA party is not a marriage, it was never intended to be a marriage, and the TEA party was/is on the GOP's case almost as hard as they are the liberals'.

This article was just another attempt for the liberals to define the TEA party movement.

[FerociousRabbit]

It is obvious that the article is just an attempt to boost the viablitlity of the author’s “independent” candidacy for office. That said, he makes some valid points.

Conservatives have no political party to call home. The GOP is merely the lesser of two evils. The GOP candidate of choice is Romney, a liberal. He would make a fine Democrat candidate. The lines distinguishing the two parties are very much a blur.

Conservatives are left with two options. 1) start their own party or 2) take over the GOP. Starting a new, viable conservative party is folly. Taking over the GOP is an uphill battle. Of the two choices, at least the uphill battle is one that can be won.

[Ron H.]

.... Another interest group to be used for fundraising and to turn out votes on Election Day, and then to be ignored when the politicians get back to doing the work of Washington. ....

And there in lies the salty rub for this (social) conservative and others (I'm sure). The sooner the conservative right comes to grips with this reality the sooner they can start to coalesce around the principles of an independent (of the Republican Party) effort free of the destructive influences of the Washington Republicans and their ilk and mindset.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The Republican Party, believing that we have nowhere else to turn politically, treats the tea party and tea party activists with the same plantation mentality that the Democratic Party treats minorities in this country.

Yup. Absolutely true. The GOP establishment's arrogance and detachment from both reality and the wishes of voters is embodied in the candidate it keeps trying to push on us: Romney.

[Waywardson]

Like an openly admitted sodomite has any idea what it is talking about.

GO Proud ly to the Democrats... pervert.

[goodwithagun]

Of course the marriage isn’t working. The GOP is cheating on the tea party with liberals.

[RFEngineer]

I went to:
http://www.teaparty.org/about.php

There is nothing about cutting social security, medicare, medicaid or any of the other dominant socialist programs.

There is nothing against socialism at all.

So, the Tea Party is useless they articulate actual things that will bring about the possibility of the core beliefs listed on the above link.

The TEA party was a good start, but the second it starts encroaching on socialist entitlement programs, it will lose it’s support.

It’s just like the GOP, only slightly different versions of the status quo.

[gogogodzilla]

PING!

I can’t PING this one enough!

[Timber Rattler]

What marriage? There never was any marriage?

[SueRae]

David Frum??? feh. If anything, the GOP is dead. Going back to doing things the way they’ve always been done IS the problem. The author is dense as a stone. After these primaries, I’m switching to Independent.