the Tea Party News

Many members of the Tea Party were among those loonies that jumped on an Internet rumor about U.S. President Barack Obama and turned it into the birther movement. They said he wasn't born in the U.S. - they were way wrong - and so could not be President.

In a stunning upset which pitted a much better financed incumbent against a newcomer, pro-Bill of Rights candidate Dave Brat defeated seven-term House Majority Leader Eric Cantor last Tuesday in Virginia.

There are two things to note at this late stage of the 2012 U.S. presidential race. First, an examination of the polls tells us there is no path to the White House for Mitt Romney to take. Second, this loss will one day lead to bloodletting in the GOP.

There is something about Sarah Palin other fanatical, bigoted, right-wingers - read Tea Party members - get but that the rest of us don't. She's fun to read about though and in her latest speech she tried a pun. About strippers.

The only candidate for the Republican nomination for President to have been born in the state of Iowa was so badly trounced on Jan. 3 that the day following that first test Michele Bachmann dropped out of the race.