Tea Party's "party" is over..

[DCBob]

There are signs all over that the "teabagger" effect has peaked and is now in decline. Many of the teaparty candidates lost in recent GOP primaries or are now losing in the coming primaries and the ones that won are not doing too well. Here are a few examples..

Rand Paul -- neck and neck with Democrat in a very conservative state, KY
Sharron Angle -- cant get traction against a very weak "near-dead" opponent, Harry Reid in NV
Marco Rubio -- trailing in most polls to Independent Charlie Crist in FL
JD Hayworth -- was closing on John McCain but now trailing by double digits in AZ GOP primary

I am sure there are more examples but I think this illustrates the point. The teabaggers may actually turn out to be the biggest factor in saving the Democrats from losing control of either the House or the Senate. Michael Steele is another... hehehe.

[DainBramaged]

1. Tea party, the party of dried up old bags.............

[shotten99]

2. I hope you're right!!

[Enthusiast]

4. Hey, that's what I was going to say.

:hi:

[KeyWester]

3. The only thing thats over is the medias coverage of them.

Thats all it ever was, a illusion created by the media that a "new" group was forming. As it turns out, they were just the GOP base all along.

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[doc03]

6. It's been a media war against this president from day one

as it was with every other Democrat I can remember. The Tea Party and Sarah Palin were both created by the MSM. The MSM has actually misinformed the American people into putting the Republicans back in charge of Congress again.

[DCBob]

7. Yeah, the media certainly played a role but the teabaggers evolved from anger during the campaign..

The Palin "hate rallies" played a big part. But what generated all the passion before, is now seen as over-the-top hype and extremism by moderates who got involved in the movement and are now leaving it. The fear tactics used by the teabaggers could only last so long if what they were warning about did not happen. Things are not great but the catastrophes they were predicting have not happened. They may be revived if something "bad" does happen but if things keep going about the way they are, the teabaggers will have minimal net effect in November.

[KurtNYC]

9. seems like the plan for the TP is to hook the angry racists types

and then get them to the polls in November (or at least provide justification when those Diebold machines pick the winners).

The Tea Party protest Obama while he delivers a tax cut -- the MSM willfully ignored that irony.

[wolfgirl]

5. Unfortunately, some of the regular

GOP candidates have adopted the crazy talking points of the TP folks. I'm in TN and the current crop of GOP (at least those that ID themselves as GOP) candidates spout that TP crap. Even though the campaign ads don't always note the party affiliation - all you have to do is hear the language and know it's crazy folk.

[DCBob]

8. It certainly varies by region and locale... I'm sure some of the TP talking points work well in TN..

and other conservative states and districts. But the trend is waning since in many places they are realizing they cant win with just over-the-top anti-Obama, anti-Govt jingoistic rants.

[tanyev]

10. The party's over....

The party's over
It's time to call it a day
They've burst your pretty balloon
And taken the moon away
It's time to wind up the masquerade
Just make your mind up the piper must be paid

The party's over
The candles flicker and dim
You danced and dreamed through the night
It seemed to be right just being with him
Now you must wake up, all dreams must end
Take off your makeup, the party's over
It's all over, my friend

The party's over
It's time to call it a day
Now you must wake up, all dreams must end
Take off your makeup, the party's over
It's all over, my friend

It's all over, my friend

[DCBob]

12. HA! .. hey those beers look full.. drunk before they even got started..hehe.

:toast:

[JoePhilly]

11. The Tea Party was invented to anger the far right GOP base ...

and then get them to vote for run of the mill GOP, standard issue, GOP candidates.

And it worked in VA, NJ, and Mass.

The goal was NEVER to elect Tea Party leaders.

[gratuitous]

13. That's what happens when the host quits funding the party

Their pre-fab signs aren't being paid for, the buses aren't running to get them to their gatherings, and while some folks were caught off guard by the "spontaneous" outrage, it's blown itself out. Long on sloganeering and short on specifics, it was just a matter of time before they got bored or tired and went home. The corporate money that made it so easy for their small rallies to garner the maximum amount of respectful coverage (coverage the far larger anti-war rallies and pro health care reform rallies could only dream of) dried up and all that's left are the memories of nitwits and their misspelled signs.

[DCBob]

14. +1

Well said.

[SoCalDem]

19. It was also a grand-plan to ruin dems' town hall meeeting last August

and they did succeed at it. It set the table for all the media pile-on about how angry "the people are", and to befuddle the health care legislation, and that worked too...we did not get a clean bill with a public option...we got a multi-faceted law with the healthcare industry still in charge and raking in more money than ever, and the general public still trying to figure out how it will work for them.

Uncertainty & anger, in a time of uneasy financial circumstance, make people do reckless things..like vote for a republican senator to replace Ted Kennedy.

The goals they pretended to promote have not come to fruition, because the real goal was to make dems look weak, befuddled, and unable to run the government, and they did succeed at that because the media lapped it all up, and is now doing their work for them..

the money-men no longer need to load up the box lunches & cart people around in glitzy buses, because the media has taken over the task of downplaying dem successes, and capitalizing on their failings..

and this August, I'd be willing to bet that many dems will shy away from their (until last year) recess- meetings.

[K8-EEE]

15. Teabaggers sink the GOP will be the big story in Nov

I AGREE!

[DCBob]

20. Yes, indeed.. I do believe the media will pick up on that...

Live by the media, die by the media!

[K8-EEE]

16. DUPE SELF DELETE

I AGREE!

[K8-EEE]

17. DUPE SELF DELETE

I AGREE!

[johnaries]

18. Well, it's still early - BUT

I have a feeling that the more the Teabaggers talk, the more they are going to turn people off. I predict that the ultimate result of all the M$M hype will be to turn more people out to vote to keep these idiots out of office!

[DCBob]

21. I hope so... because the biggest threat to the Dems this fall is apathy..

Obama inspired them to vote in the general but Im not sure he can inspire them to vote in the mid-terms. Lets hope these idiot teabaggers make even more news as we get closer to election day.