Gingrich: Tea Party Movement Will Be 'Militant Wing Of The Republican Party'

Gingrich says "Give it to Mikey. He'll eat anything."

Now left holding the bag, the Tea Baggers are going to be the 'sickems', the dirty deed doers, etc.

But the underlying message from the Republican elite to the Baggers is 'You do the dirty work and we'll distance ourselves as best we can."

The underlying message from Republicans to the public at large is 'If elected we'll have to pay off our crazies; so, dont vote for us, unless you want the racists, ideologues and zealots filling policy positions in DC'.

Thanks, Newt, for making these things explicit.

Newt is really projecting here because he knows that the Teabaggers as a 3rd party would siphon votes from Republicans. He is essentially pleading with the Teabaggers to stay in the Republican party. Regardless, the Teabaggers will only serve to show moderates how extreme and how far out of the mainstream the Republicans have become.

This is what many of us expected: Dick Armey's sockpuppets are just tools of the wider cause, pawns of the corporations that fund Armey and his ilk very very well out of pure selfish interest on the part of both the corporations and the "consultants" who suck on their tits. Tools. Tea Party tools. When the baggers are no longer needed, they will be discarded. Ultimately they are losers. Sore losers, but losers nonetheless. I despise their lies and distortions, and while they may win an elections cycle or two, ultimately they will revert to form--tools of a power structure that uses people and than spits them out and at the short end of the stick in terms of America's emerging polity--Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities will not forget how they have had their liberty and welfare stolen by a bunch of phony "Patriots" and "Real Americans" and Republicans. We will not exact revenge, except at the ballot box. Too bad baggers!

Ferchritsake! This pumpkenhead duplicious, philandering tax cheat sure makes
me ashamed of my own caucasian Pennsylvania German heritage

If she were truly about lower taxes for most Americans, she'd be with the Dems.
If she were about less taxes for the richest people in the world, whilst not making the necessary cuts in government to pay for said tax cuts(which tea partiers have overwhelmingly said they don't want to do), for a 'christian' cult to run the country how it sees fit, for the most paranoid and traitorous people in America tapping the phones of anyone they like - be they 'terrorist suspects', political opponents or the press, then she's right at home with the GOP.

As for Gingrich's comment: many tea partiers will be highly offended by that statement. But the fact is, they have played into the arms of the gop so exactly, to me they have become the sheep, and the gop are the farmers herding them.

"Why yes; we would like you teabaggers to be our parmilitary death squads"

After all it worked so well in El Salvidor and a bunch of other places...

Newt calls the tea party the militant wing of the republican party, and Michael Steele says African Americans have no reason to vote republican.

Explain to me again how the republican party is going to take back their country in 2010 & 2012?

If you look at Newt in the early 90's and again in the early 10's, you might get the idea that Newt is a (coming out of the) closet revolutionary.

Funny, the same Sin Fein / IRA parallel struck me as well.

How irrelevant does this guy have to be before he gets it? 20 solid years of being a joke would normally do it. Newton may be going for the Guiness book of laughing stock. If not he should, I nominate him & that's the only nomination Mr. Rollie Pollie is gonna get.

The problem is, the entire Republican party has obediently bowed to the "militant wing" of the party. The Republican party is now an extremist party of radical politics.

He may be right, but only because the most militant among them will put a stranglehold on the movement. They can't stay a disorganized group forever and expect to have any influence-- 5000 showing up for a rally to just complain about assorted problems (offering no reasonable solutions) aren't going to scare any politician into changing. If they are mixed with GOP, DEM, IND, then I expect there will either be lots of infighting or one group will take over and the rest will leave in disgust.

What ever happened to the Know-Nothing party?

I didn't know that "militant" meant "uneducated racist"???

Will be? That's about as lame as saying the GOOP will be the southern white racist party. They already are. Try actually predicting something Nute, like when your egotistical head will explode.