[quote=SK in CV]You know surveyor, I agree with you. And that kind of makes my point. And despite Dick Armey’s assertion, the few voices on the right that did step up and criticize the spending never got much traction. They were never in revolt. He wasn’t in revolt. Armey, through his Freedomworks, was a primary organizer of the Tea Party movement,[/quote]

There was a revolt. Why do you think the Democrats were able to get majorities in both houses of Congress? Because the conservatives stayed home instead of voting for the Republicans or going to bat for them. There wasn’t a lot of interest of trying to raise money for Republicans if they weren’t going to listen.

Yes, in a lot of ways, the Tea Party members are taking a different approach, because they not part of Obama’s natural constituency. They know Obama, the Democrats, and even the Republican party are not willing to listen to them. And so they have to make their voices heard more forcefully. They already tried to make their voices heard within the system and that didn’t work.

And for that they are vilified as racists and hate-mongers.