Originally Posted by Connor

Well, I think there IS a divide... but I do understand your point.

From what I see, the big corporations are trying to USE the Tea Party movement to put a fresh face on the Republican party whose image was so devastated by Bush. After all that happened, the fact that they've managed to accomplish this is just two years is amazing. I always knew a whole lot of people were stupid with short memories, but two years? Amazing.

That said, I think the religious right is ALSO trying to control the Tea Party, and their interests aren't 100% the same as the corporate Republicans. They are concerned about the social issues more than the "corporate freedom" issues.

I think you saw the two factions at work when Rove attacked O'Donnell on Fox. These corporate Republicans know they're playing with fire with these religious fanatics, but they also know they can't win without their mass ignorance because not many poor or working class people outside the religious right's influence are dumb enough to vote against their own interests. So when you're rich and want to push an agenda that favors you and your friends at the expense of 95% of the country, but you need 51% of the vote... how do you do that? Through ignorant religious fanatics worried about gay marriage and other "culture" issues that you really don't care about. So you give them the culture issues, and they give you power to run your companies in whatever crooked way you want.