How Can Americans Hold Tea Party Voters Accountable?

[polichick]

Their boneheaded choices create a world of hurt in so many ways - and a standstill when it comes to addressing issues as critical as climate change and job creation.

Tea Party voters should pay a price for inflicting such idiocy on the country and on the world - but WHAT PRICE and HOW can fellow Americans exact that price?


Let this thread be for venting but also for coming up with a few good ideas.

[get the red out]

1. They already won't get in on the ACA in the 'bagalicious states

They will wonder why, since it was that Satanic Obama-care they were against.

[polichick]

3. Good - hopefully fellow citizens will blame the right voters.

[cheyanne]

2. The Tea Party has the usual life span of an extremist movement.

It is in the "ideological purity" stage, which means it eats its own. With this latest defeat they will lose adherents who are tired of losing, besides the "impure". The group will get smaller and less influential. Until it's only a footnote in history. My only worry is that some will turn to violence.

We can only let them self-destruct, don't compromise and get on with our program. As they realize that Obama is not taking their guns, murdering their grandmothers, implementing sharia law, they won't be so crazed.

Revenge is usually not a practical political move.

[polichick]

4. I wasn't thinking "revenge" but accountability - we don't have time to wait...

for them to burn out when it comes to climate change.

[cynatnite]

5. The best way would be the repukes losing the house in 2014...

I don't have a lot of hope for that, but it would be a loud and clear repudiation of everything they stand for. The American people have to soundly reject them in front of the world.

[polichick]

6. I guess there's a better chance of that now.

[H2O Man]

7. In my region,

I am running the campaigns of five democratic candidates (in two counties of upstate New York). The opposition includes three of the local tea party/republicans.

My goal is simple, though it has two parts: {1} win all five contests; and {2} use the rabid nature of the tea party to fracture the republican party unity.

For example, I delivered a letter-to-the-editor of the hometown newspaper in the community with three contests. The paper, like the community, is very much republican. (Registration is republican at 60%; independent at 25%; and democrat at 15%. Still, in the past two election cycles, all 5 candidates I worked for won, creating literally the first democratic majority in the town's history.) In three hours after that, several of the paper's editorial staff contacted me to say, "Well done!"

As a general rule, I find telling the truth works best. Of course, my letter will result in a certain segment that already despises me being upset and wanting to shut me up. But it won't happen.

[polichick]

8. "telling the truth works best" - especially important with those who...

unwittingly rely on propaganda networks.

Well done you!

[ruffburr]

9. Idea-

VOTE!!!!! No repub teabaggers in 14

[polichick]

10. We can't afford to have a standoff on things like climate change until Jan. 2015...

imo these voters have to be held accountable somehow so they'll get after their idiot representatives.