The Republican Party Establishment has looked its gift-horse in the mouth. Either they will win, and America will lose, or the gift-horse will swallow the RPE whole
In November of 2010, the depth and breadth of the Tea Party's seriousness and power of influence was fully understood by the Republican Party Establishment (RPE) for the first time. The Democrats' attempts to dismiss and belittle this grassroots movement could easily be taken as evidence of their fear of a middle-American backlash against Obama's neo-socialism, and would account for their desire to nip the new threat in the bud with ridicule. The RPE, however, which, if victory were the name of the game, ought to have embraced the Tea Party as their unforeseen salvation, was uncomfortable with it from the get-go.
