Tea Partiers likely a boon for Democrats

By Claudio Ribeiro
The Guardsman

The Tea Party movement was first a mirage of a revolutionary demonstration, a hallucination that the United States was heading on a new journey. The movement was empowered as a new development in reconstructing our government by uniting Americans in a reformed organization. Basically, the movement was a fading battle cry of the dying Republican Party.

Now some members of the Tea Party, which began as a band of people uniting to fight against taxes, want the party to become legitimate a legitimate party so they can place their own representatives on the ballot. If this were to happen, it could help the Democrats because it might split the Republican Party.

The Tax Day Tea Parties on April 15, 2009 marked the beginning for this movement. The party has gone on to rally against the federal stimulus bill, government bailouts and proposed health care legislation.

According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, 35 percent of voters are open to the idea of an independent party.

The Tea Party’s growing base of support was built with help from the media and financially supported by former Republican Party leaders. Even Sean Hannity spoke at a Tax Day Tea Party rally in Atlanta, hyping up the movement in hope that the exposure would help the GOP regain their presence in the House and Senate. Thanks in large part to this support, the movement could destroy the Republican Party.

If the Tea Party becomes a legitimate third party, the edge Republicans are projected to have over Democrats on the 2012 generic ballot could be reduced by as much as 12 points. Republicans would only get one third of all votes, thus handing over the power to liberals in conservative districts, according to the survey.

Instead of trying to understand what Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are trying to press upon our country, conservatives are quickly opposed to liberal motives, regardless of their intentions.

Instead of ridiculing liberals, Tea Party activists are jeopardizing conservatives.

Three out of four Tea Party members hold college degrees, according to the survey, which means there are many smart conservatives who could be assisting this country instead of crying like disease-infested animals.

The Republican Party needs to regroup and find common ground with Democrats to aid this country.

Even though polls read that 64 percent of Americans are favoring the idea of another independent party running for Congress, the Tea Party is capable of creating problems for the Republican Party. That might not be such a bad idea after all.