re: #302 Targetpractice

The scary part being that the old fogies that are dying off are being replaced with “young guns” who are even crazier than they. Men like Paul Ryan and Rand Paul are the face of the GOP’s future.

I think that’s what the Tea Party (as a popular movement) was intended to market to young voters but it flopped. It attracted no new voters in any significant numbers and youth appeal was nonexistent. As a political movement (candidates funded by superpacs) it worked out well. I don’t think Rand will inherit his father’s cult, it was such a fluke I don’t think it can be repeated. Paul Ryan has a better chance at being the future of the party but as the Foreign Policy article points out, the single minded focus on low taxes is probably a historical dead end.