WESTFIELD, Ind. — Greg Fettig, a landscape architect and Republican activist, knows the naysayers are watching. Amid the cornfields of the Hoosier State, he and other stridently fiscal conservatives want to vanquish any doubt: The Tea Party movement will continue its seismic remaking of the political landscape.
But the movement’s appeal is being severely tested from New England to California as Democrats use the brand to portray these Republicans as unbending purists responsible for Washington’s uberpartisan gridlock.
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The Tea Party may have once been a movement, but it does seem to have turned into astroturf pretty quickly. It's now just one side of the established republican party.
The Tea Party is here to stay, it may not be as visible in the future but it's defineatley here to stay. And why not? someone somehow has to support the moral backbone of this "once" great republic.
Tea Party is defending our "moral" backbone? These folks who booed a returning gay vet (http://abcn.ws/p4ePRi) and cheered at the idea of letting the poor die (http://youtu.be/irx_QXsJiao). We clearly do not share a moral code.
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