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It should also not be news that this means no Jeb Bush now or ever.
10/15/13, "The GOP Can't Survive Without the Tea Party," The New Republic, Nate Cohn
"If Republicans think they have a pathway to victory without the tea
party, they’re sorely mistaken. The tea party is not some small, fringe
element of the Republican coalition. It's not the Buchanan 2000 vote, or
something. The tea party is the Republican Party, at least as much as
any single constituency can claim, with the possible and overlapping
exception of Evangelicals.
According to a July Pew Research survey, Tea
Party Republicans make up nearly half (49 percent) of the Republican
primary electorate and fully 37 percent of Republicans and
Republican-leaners. So long as Democrats remain modestly unified, it is
not conceivable that Republicans could compensate for the loss of
anything near 37 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaners with
gains among moderates and independents. Once a Republican realized there
aren’t enough opportunities to win without the tea party, the centrist
fantasy would come to an end. Republicans would immediately tack back to
their right, in an effort to consolidate the Republican coalition.
Harry Truman’s success...is the exception, not the rule.
In 1948, Truman did face two third-party challenges, but they weren't
comparable to jettisoning half of the Republican base. Thurmond won 2.41
percent of the popular vote, Wallace won 2.37 percent. And when you look
at the more significant third party challenges, like Perot, Wallace, or
Theodore Roosevelt, it's hard to find one that goes so well for the
suffering party.
A more recent is example is the 2010
gubernatorial contest in Colorado, when Tom Tancredo ran as a
Constitution Party candidate. Unsurprisingly, neither Tancredo nor his
Republican opponent, Dan Maes, made any inroads into the state’s
Democratic coalition. As a result, Democrat John Hickenlooper easily
prevailed over a divided field, winning by 15 points with just 51
percent of the vote. If conservatives want to divide themselves over
tactical issues, that’s exactly the result they should expect." via Lucianne
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Comment: The Tea Party or Silent Majority are just people who realize the Bush crowd destroyed the Republican Party and the two party system on its way to destroying the country and handing us to the radical left. The US can't exist without two separate and functioning political parties. We only have one now.
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