I don't necessarily think so, ckroberts...because the key word there is ANTI.
Congress is already Anti-Everything enough as it is, it's obstructionist and disgustingly so...it already doesn't compromise or get work done...do you think the GOP going even MORE radical will lead to compromise?
What's more, I'd also say it's easy to be anti-all of that when you're NOT in a leadership position in the US House of Representatives, and that's as sympathetic" as I go towards Cantor--
It DOES take a lot of time to hold down a leadership position on top of being a Congressman, and what's more, the fact of the matter is, successful politics are BUILT on compromise. It's all well and good for the Tea Party to howl about its principles...
But for God's sake, Cantor had a 96% approval rating with the American Conservative Union.
THAT wasn't conservative enough?
Not when the Tea Party demands 110% conservative commitment, and that's the scary part...they will not compromise, they're the nutters that shut down the government, and they'd honestly rather do that than compromise and govern.
It's going to get a LOT worse if the GOP decides the Eric Cantors of the party aren't conservative ENOUGH...
It might be a boon to the Democrats in national elections--that anti-immigration stance alone, if forced upon a presidential candidate by voters, is potentially worth 27 electoral votes and a Blue Florida, just for a start--but beyond that...
We might be able to keep the White House in the Blue, but how much good would it be Red OR Blue if Congress has Tea Partyers crying and screaming and stomping their feet like infants throwing a temper tantrum in the super market rather than sitting down like, oh, I don't know, statesmen and hammering out a deal?
For as much as the Tea Partyers LOVE the Constitution, they forget--
That document was 1. Imperfect and 2. It was imperfect because it was created by statesmen who were brilliant, yes, but disagreed, and so had to agree to COMPROMISE...sometimes for the good (I'd argue bicameral legislature's a good idea) and the bad (well, obviously counting slaves as 3/5 of a person...a compromise that occurred when some wanted to abolish slavery and others would've left the conference over it.)
Brat said on national news last night that he yearned for those "political philosophers" that were our Founding Fathers--
But THOSE men were willing to compromise in order to create and run a nation...
Will the Tea Party EVER compromise? I think not, and while that's great news for Democrats in 2016, that's terrible news for everything regarding actual governing.
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