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Old 08-01-2010, 05:22 PM   #20 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth
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Originally Posted by FuglyStick View Post
Ah, but here's the thing. There may be a lot of Tea Party folk who don't care about issues like gay marriage and abortion, but can the Tea Party lose the "God and Country" crowd and still maintain enough members to be viable? Because the Tea Party doesn't hold "rallies", they hold "revivals".
Indeed they do (despite what I'm saying here, some of the stuff I've seen around me lately is boarderline scary), but seperating from the "God and Country" crowd could be what gives them an identity amongst more grounded conservatives and thrusts them from side show to mainstream. But it really depends on which ideology wins out in the end, will they reject the Palins and Becks or turn into GOP part II?

But again as long as they center their identity around "Obama sucks" its really hard to tell what direction the whole thing moves.
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