The Tea Party and the Republican Party Are the Same

huffingtonpost.com — Focusing on the effect the Tea Party will have on the Republican Party on Nov. 2 and beyond misses the point because it falsely suggests that the Tea Party and the Republican Party are different entities. There is no battle within the Republican Party between Tea Party supporters and more moderate, wiser and establishment Republicans, because the latter group does not really exist anymore. The establishment of the Republican Party and the party's more extremist right flank merged around a decade ago with the election of George Bush Oct 26, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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The Tea Party and the Republican Party Are the Same

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"There is no battle within the Republican Party between Tea Party supporters and more moderate, wiser and establishment Republicans, because the latter group does not really exist anymore. The establishment of the Republican Party and the party's more extremist right flank merged around a decade ago with the election of George Bush. The moderate Republican has been a thing of the past for years, but the non-Tea Party Republican is almost a thing of the past as well. "