re: #30 Dr Lizardo

For the Tea Party movement, this is do or die. If they fail in this undertaking - and I think they will - I have a suspicion they won’t know quite what to do next beyond their usual fulminating at whomever draws their ire.

Most likely, they will devour their own - certainly, a failure on the Tea Party’s part will have the effect of causing the leadership of the GOP to take a much dimmer view of them; after all, if it comes to that point, the Tea Party will have lead the GOP to disaster.

That may be when the Tea Party and the GOP part ways; the SoCons/White Nationalists/neo-Confederates/Evangelical fundamentalists/etc. that make up the Tea Party will either become so thoroughly disillusioned with politics that they quit the game entirely, or they splinter off to form a third party - a “Tea Party” or whatever they choose to call it.

The next few weeks will be interesting times indeed. Gonna have to stock up on popcorn, I can tell you that.

You’ve forgotten, “The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” I believe more than a few will go that route.

They’ve nothing to lose, in what passes for their minds, and much to gain.