Will 2010 be the year of the Tea Party?

[Ulmus]

With all the anger and distrust towards the regular politicians do you think that there will be a lot of people running under the Tea Party brand this year?

If so, who do you see running under that brand?

[TAB]

I doubt it. 

[Texas_Bryan]

Maybe not Tea Party, but I can definitely see people looking to public office moving away from 'Republican' or 'Democrat', mainly new office seekers though.

[twyacht]

As long as NO INCUMBENTS are re-elected.

[Overload]

There is no UNIFIED Tea Party.  Here in Colorado, different chapters seem to be centered around different parts of the 9/12 tenants.  Some chapters seem to be conservative republicans, others libertarians.  We had a chapter protest a Republican candidate because she wasn't Conservative enough.

So, what IS the Tea Party?  What is their platform?  What is their stand on all the issues?

The deck is stacked against any third party candidate being elected, and if elected, she will find herself with less power in office than a R or D official.


I wish it were otherwise...

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[tombogan03884]

 That 3rd party candidate needs to get on the Intelligence committee and make friends with the spooks. They know all the USEFUL stuff  
  Ever wonder why J Edgar Hoover stayed running the FBI for 50 years ?     

[Rastus]

That 3rd party candidate needs to get on the Intelligence committee and make friends with the spooks. They know all the USEFUL stuff  
  Ever wonder why J Edgar Hoover stayed running the FBI for 50 years ?    

U B rite Mr. Bogan.  And I would surmise that the current administration and congressional leadership have no true friends in the intelligence community.  My experience being on the periphery of some of those guys makes me think there's more than one expose' on the way.

Who released the pics of the Russian missiles in Cuba to the news media in the early 60's....Little Bo Peep?  

I don't think there will be a unified Tea Party...but there will be a Tea Party faction or movement that may move the party to the right.

[fightingquaker13]

That 3rd party candidate needs to get on the Intelligence committee and make friends with the spooks. They know all the USEFUL stuff  
  Ever wonder why J Edgar Hoover stayed running the FBI for 50 years ?     

Because he had blackmail material on pretty much everyone until LBJ mentioned the words "cross dressing coke addict". The thing is, a third party is as useful as a glass hammer (Libertarian here, I know whereof  I speak). A movement IN  party, be it blacks with the Dems or the Religious Right in the GOP, can make a huge difference. The tea bagers need an organization and a plan. Then potential energy can become applied energy, otherwise its a fart in a windstorm.
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[tombogan03884]

 FQ, you aren't very well informed. There were never any Coke allegations against Hoover, the cross dressing was a KGB active measure because he was very efficient about busting their spies after they realized how badly the Manhattan Project had been infiltrated. The FBI is the reason that they KGB could only maintain one illegal agent in the US for any length of time and he did not really amount to much, The greatest accomplishment of Vilyam Fisher (AKA Rudolph Abel, codename MARK ) was not becoming an alcoholic.
I will also point out that as usual your facts are wrong, Hoover  was in Office long after Johnson was gone.

And of course he had blackmail materiel on everybody in Washington, that was the whole point of my post  

[fightingquaker13]

FQ, you aren't very well informed. There were never any Coke allegations against Hoover, the cross dressing was a KGB active measure because he was very efficient about busting their spies after they realized how badly the Manhattan Project had been infiltrated. The FBI is the reason that they KGB could only maintain one illegal agent in the US for any length of time and he did not really amount to much, The greatest accomplishment of Vilyam Fisher (AKA Rudolph Abel, codename MARK ) was not becoming an alcoholic.
I will also point out that as usual your facts are wrong, Hoover  was in Office long after Johnson was gone.

And of course he had blackmail materiel on everybody in Washington, that was the whole point of my post  

Sorry Tom, but you are wrong here. Harry Anslinger, the head of the FBN (Federal Bureau of Narcotics), the predesesor to the DEA, was on record supplying coke to Hoover. And Hoover, he had his kinks, doesn't mean he was wrong or stupid, just that he had dagerous hobbies for a man in his positon at that time in our history.
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