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TheRealMafoo said: It was guaranteed republican because the man running as a republican was as much a democrate as he was a republican. the GOP only wanted him because a real Republican could not win. And TeaParty Members are for balanced budgets and limited government. How is that far right? Almost everyone in the US is for that. |
You defeat your own logic right there. The Tea party is extreme right of American mainstream, which is why when a moderate Republican was defeated in Deleware, voters identified more with the democrat than the far-right Tea Partier.
Thats the way America's two party system works, Republicans and Democrats hover around the center and are actually very alike though you wouldn't think that from hearing them talk. The Tea Party pushes the Republicans farther right, away from the center, and thus they lose votes come the general election.
Until America adopts a parliamentary multi-party system (not any time soon), the Tea Party, the Greens, and other parties out of the mainstream can't effectively participate in government. In fact, they will only negatively effect their cause.
O'Donnell (Tea) and Nader (Green) are perfect examples of why this type of movement cannot work. O'Donnell caused the Republican party to lose a senate seat, resulting in a Democrat who is even farther away from the Tea Party's ideaology to take power. Nader took tens of thousands of liberal votes away from Gore in the 2000 election, helping Bush win the presidency, which resulted in a politican even farther away from Nader's ideology to gain power.
