Rep. Maxine Waters Calls For A Trillion-Dollar Jobs Program

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Originally Posted by GBBob

Joey...in 5 years The Tea Party will be Ross Perot.

EDIT...They will be irrelevant soon. You can't exist as a real force in politics let alone a "Major" party without having a middle ground. Being "angry" is a cute trend but while you think you are the voice of America, most of us are laughing at you. It's easy just to swoop in during tough times pretending to advance an economic change and spout unrealistic rhetoric while quitely having a social agenda...guns, abortion, gay rights, religion..that is out of touch. At the end of the day we fight over 10% of the public that votes and changes their vote every 4 years. PLEASE..nominate a Tea Party candidate..I'll take my chances.

Normally I would agree with your rationale as you specify above - anger does not cohesively act as a political force over a long period of time.

But, in this case, the Tea Party's primary objection, to the exclusion of all other concerns, is to runaway spending and an ever increasing national debt. I don't see either of those factors going away, getting less publicity, or getting radically better to the point where they are less important.

So I think the Tea Party will be around for quite a while - though it may evolve to something else - different name, more PACs and conventions...

Ross Perot is an interesting example as he was a significant player in the debate and election - but not enough to get his own electoral college votes. And he started out with the "United We Stand America" group, which eventually became "The Reform Party". Had they NOT become an independent party, and backed one man - their founder Ross Perot - they might still have been around today. A vibrant "Reform" organization would have been the natural place for today's "Tea Partiers" to gravitate to.