The man who scares Dick.
 

Rand Paul. So far Right is he that even Cheney doesn’t know what to say.
What the hell, man! What the hell!?

The fact that people can get behind this kind of person scares me. If this is where the Republican party is headed, I think it's time for normal people to abandon ship.

Rand Paul? Any relation to Ron?

His son.

Adherents to any political party are insane, in my opinion. Unfortunately, with there being only two major parties in the United States, you always have to choose your candidades who agree with you on more issues than not, or on a few important issues, even if the rest are disagreeable to you.

I support independent auditing of governmental budgets and having spending of all kinds trimmed to sane levels, which is a mild Tea Party sentiment, but at the same time, I am against any attempt to legislate morality, which is a decidedly liberal attitude.

There really isn't a party for me, though I do hope that the Tea Party takes off as a strong third party and that the Republican Party becomes a bastion for political moderates such as myself.

Unfortunately, the words to watch Sarah Palin are eerily echoing at the moment. With the Tea Party highjacking the Republican party, she IS its new face, or will be scarily soon.

The GOP itself isn't exactly discouraging this. The neocons are happy to take Tea Party money and support, even if they have a low opinion of them. I see the GOP shifting further right as the Tea Party nutjobs start to get a foothold, and I'm afraid the government might swing right again after all the effort done by the current administration to try to fix things. Obama is having enough trouble with Congress without losing its support entirely.

I wouldn't mind seeing another color on the poll screen. The question is, between the Tea Party and the Republicans.....which one gets to keep the red?

Tea Party
 

The Tea Party. See, Red is also the color of Communism, and since Purple is moderate between Red and Blue (a mix of both), the irony is just too irresistable.

EDIT:
Yeah, that's why (following a brief tangent by Tev who started the thread) we were speculating on if they become a party, which color they might have. I'm more inclined to believe that Blue's is right, however. In many ways, being a Republicanself-righteous, overbearing religious zealot windbag who hates and mocks all who feel differently from me myself, I like the concept of the country swinging to the "Right", but a "Right" as I'm given to understand it: less government intrusion/power (fiscal and authoritarian), lower taxes, that whole bit. What I don't support or approve of is the (percieved) racial intolerance, and many social ostricizations* that are often associated with the "Right". I'm aware of the irony**, thanks.I'm very aware of my status as a rather anomalous member of the boards here (and, it seems, the internet in general), and I'm not a political science, economics, or history major (my training being in physics and, currently, the Scriptures) so, I generally try to stay out of the political/economic debates. But if there's the away for all the things I don't like can exit the party that I most strongly associate with and enter another party, while still retaining the political strength, I'd be good with that. From what I do know of American (and world) history, however, that seems unlikely. What's more likely, I think, to happenWhat's more likely than a single third party, allowing three of roughly equal strengths, are a fracturing into many splinter groups of one (or both) parties and the rise of one of the "heirs" (or a new group) into a singular position of prominance/power that will inevitably change the way our system works to the point that our current system can no longer stand the stress and needs to be re-written. Kind of like the RomansBritishGermansJapaneseRussians***.
*I'm dyslexic - I've honestly no idea how to spell this word. Sorry.
**Irony is a poor word choice. Yes, that's the terrible, terrible "joke".
***Click this lots! Five hidden answers, fun for the whole family! (is there a way to do that more cyclically/less back-and-forth? Blues, do you know? PM, maybe?)

Tea Party isn't a party. Just a bunch of loonies. They keep the red along with GOP because they're members of the same party. What we need is two more parties, maybe they can be green and purple, that each represent a step closer to the middle for each side.

TRANSLATION: Tiger Woods is black and they let him in now, so hanging out in fancy golf clubhouses is no longer an exclusive pastime of the wealthy elite.

I mean nevermind that Tiger grew up in the fucking OC making a mint off television appearances since his early childhood and has really never not been rich as all hell. He's got a darker skin pigmentation so obviously he is a prime example of the struggles of working class America.