Originally Posted by
FaultyMario
I've long held that those populist astroturf movements would be clearly exposed in their lack of coherence or ineptitude (or both) if they were to be put in positions of power, because they lack the ideological directives to guide their policy decisions; with them, one doesn't find the logic behind opposing social expenditure because free market or favoring it because social justice, they just go with appears to be popular, but because popular choice is often contradictory, so there's no way they could execute a policy program that calculates political costs and reaches any sort of tangible goal.
I say in general, having the spotlight on a tea party-er will expose her for what she really is (and I'm putting a tenner on her being business-as-usual), so that will hopefully give the opposition enough ammunition to show the electorate they may campaign on change, but change they're not.