re: #237 Killgore Trout

Well said. The Tea Party is just a symptom of a larger problem just like Glenn Beck and Fox News. Even with a massive electoral defeat the Republicans might shun the symptoms but won’t deal with the larger problem for quite some time.

We’ve even seen the opposite effect. Sometimes when they lose they turn around and say “we weren’t conservative enough.” This is what they said about McCain. So if they lose in 2012 they may very well turn around and become even more conservative or in this case right wing.