
Could the ousting of Eric Cantor the beginning of the end of America's two party system?
Posted by: discomfitingEric Cantor, the house majority leader, was ousted by a Tea Party candidate. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-10/with-eric-cantors-loss-the-republican-civil-war-is-about-to-explode
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Erica cantor be the beginning of the end* sorry
I just don't see the Tea Party evolving into a "Third Party", until it matures. Right now, the TP operation is far from that. They use the GOP platform, war-chest, marketing, etc. In these primary races, they are splitting GOP & Independent votes. This is why they continually fail, in the general election. In the great big world, the TP has lousy popularity numbers & an even worse image. That's a huge problem. To sow the seeds of a "Third Party", the TP must first become one officially ... Sever all ties with the GOP ... Create their own platform ... Accumulate their own war-chest ... And then run candidates who can win. Even then, if they can't win the Oval Office, they AREN'T a force to be reckoned with -- just a nuisance. And it will create more of a problem for the GOP than for Dems! I don't see that kind of hard-work coming from the TP. They want it, but they don't want to earn it. Today's, TP is like a Trust-fund brat ... Living off of the family name & money ... Lazy ... But darn demanding ... Spoiled. That's not the seeds of a "Third Party". That's a slacker!
Expect the unexpected.
Ah, Murphy's Law ... You have a point!
Nobody really expected Tea Party to win this election against Cantor so I guess we shouldn't give much doubt