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• Peggy Noonan, SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Why It's Time for the Tea Party

The populist movement is more a critique of the GOP than a wing of it.

Excerpt:

One difference so far between the Tea Party and the great wave of conservatives that elected Ronald Reagan in 1980 is that latter was a true coalition—not only North and South, East and West but right-wingers, intellectuals who were former leftists, and former Democrats. When they won presidential landslides in 1980, '84 and '88, they brought the center with them. That in the end is how you win. Will the center join arms or work with the Tea Party? That's a great question of 2012.

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I dont know about other Independents and Centrists... but this one is totaly repulsed by what the Tea Party candidates and elects are saying abotu their positions. They seem to be far more conservatives on the social scale than I ever saw.

In case any of you watched CNN "Rick's List" yesterday... Rick Sanchez interviewed Paladino, the new GOP Nominee for Governor of NY .... that guy was so so nutso!  Incredible!  Get this:
Paladino freely forwards all kinds of emails supposedly without reading, including some yucky stuff about sex with animals.
Then he stands for this when Rick of CNN asks direct questions:

Where to you stand on these: Yes or No.
Gay marriage? - NO
Abortion? NO
Abortion if rape? NO; the kid can be adopted
Abortion if incest? "The kid can be adopted"

Can you imagine? This is the person that tea party and Sarah Palin endorsed!!!

We are in for a sad sad future with nuts like this getting into government. [Meanwhile, I am so glad Cuomo is strong in NY.]

Question:  Do the Dems and Independents who joined the "Tea Party Movement" realize that they voted for the far right end of the GOP candidates? DO they recognize that the Tea Party movement is headed by and led by far right conservatives, and it does not matter if what the Dems and Indpeendents were BEFORE joining the movement... but by virtue of following the extreme end, and supporting their causes, they have become part of the ultra conservative movement? Do they realize that? I wonder!

It is really time for a 3-way split. If the GOP splits and Tea Party goes off as the far right... it may be tremendously healthy for the GOP... as GOP would actually grow to embrace the Center.  But GOP has not figured out how to become the "big tent" party keeping its far right activist ends in check... hence here we are.

Again, given what I have seen thus far of all the Tea party candidates, sorry, no thanks.