To the extent that Tea Party funding comes from Big Insurance, Big Oil and Big (insert lobby group here), I suspect that a large proportion of Tea Partyers are "useful" to groups which do not have the Tea Partyers' interests at heart. Beyond that, we are getting into semantics.Quote from tmarket:
I won't say all Tea Party members are idiots. They have done pretty well for themselves. Misguided perhaps, but not idiots.
Remember this video that was posted recently?
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