No one has vested more hope in the tea-party move ment than the Democrats. For all the scorn and abuse they've heaped on the tea-partiers, they've counted on them for salvation.
The tea-partiers would push the GOP out of the mainstream. They'd tar the party with their bumptious extremism. They'd stoke a Republican civil war. The tea-partiers would, in short, redeem the Obama administration's political fortunes no matter what.
This was the oft-repeated theory, shot through with a perverse hopefulness and woeful misunderstanding. One wonders if Democrats can overcome their contempt for the tea-partiers -- whom they call "tea baggers," in honor of an exotic sexual practice -- long enough to notice that the devoutly wished-for GOP internal blood bath isn't materializing.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/tea_party_leaves_mEriJbBidfNi1x3aU0NFlK#ixzz0f3P799D9
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