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[jhuntingtonus]

Is there any? In other words, do those central to the Tea Party, or identifying themselves as believing most strongly in what they perceive that that label means, deviate at all from ordinary Republicanism? Not just something like "Tea Partyites believe in the primacy of the Constitution," but any difference on specific issues?

What do you think?

[RMNC]

Here's the difference:

Dittoheads agree with any and everything Limbaugh says.

Teabaggers agree with anything Sarah Palin says.

[Quack Addict]

I think knee jerk, bleeding heart liberals are ruining the country from the left. I think teabag, Rushies are ruining the country from the right. And me..."clowns to left of me, jokers to the right, stuck in the middle with you!"

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[thomas pars]

Ever wonder where the Tea Party comes from?

It is loosely based on Libertarian ideas as was stated above.

But then a group of Billionaires, like Steve Forbes and the Koch brothers got together and "started" this party. It bills itself as this grassroots political party. The truth is it has seriously deep pockets and has received an inordinate amount of hype from Fox news.

How can a billionaire and the average American have similar agendas? Well. they can't really.

If that wasn't enough. They have some of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard from any political party. Ending the FDA- the agency that makes sure out food is safe. Sure. I'll let you go first.

[jhuntingtonus]

Thanks. I've voted for two Libertarian presidential candidates, but the Tea Party doesn't seem that way at all to me, even if it started like that - for example, where were they about California's marijuana legalization initiative? If you are libertarian on economic issues only, you are not a libertarian - you are a conservative. Sort of the mirror image of groups such as the ACLU, which get pious about freedom of speech if it't on the liberal side, but are eerily silent about, say, political correctness at public universities.

So here's a question in response to my first responder: What is the difference in positions on issues between Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh?

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[Kepler]

Doesn't appear to be much difference between teabaggers and the rest of the GOP-

"The indispensable religion and politics reporter Sarah Posner has been fairly lonely in pointing out that survey data show more than half of Tea Partiers�those new Republican recruits who supposedly don't care about social issues�identifying with the religious right. For example, at least two-thirds of Tea Partiers oppose abortion; the new, Mike Castle-less Republican majority in the House is, with a handful of exceptions, pro-life....

"But a real fight between the GOP and its new members? A split on foreign policy? A split on social issues? That's not going to happen as long as Barack Obama is president. The Tea Party isn't presenting some infinite challenge that threatens what the GOP establishment does. The Tea Party won its battles with Republicans because its beliefs and priorities were the ones most Republicans had in the first place."
http://www.slate.com/id/2276202/

[BaldTeacher]

Republicans are a bunch of nerds, even more so than Democrats.

The Tea Party started out as a good idea, but now Sarah Palin's retarded as is up there speaking for them. She reminds me of Peggy Hill, but she's even stupider.

The total lack of societal standards that you see in liberalism is bad enough, but neoconservatism spreads it everywhere and accelerates it, all the while that they're claiming to be against it. The Tea Party will just get absorbed into the GOP, but it doesn't even matter because the Democrats and the GOP are both equally useless.