Don't count these radical nitwits out. The Tea Party enjoys such primary power that Republicans had to vote against John McCain and a wheelchaired Bob Dole call for rights for the disabled worldwide. All because radical nitwits in the red states hate the rest of the world so much they hyperventilate when they hear the syllables U and N in tandem.
Also remember these stinky people have been around a long time. In the twenties they were the Klan, in the thirties they backed Germany, in the 40s they were called Dixiecrats, in the fifties they were called the John Birch Society, in the sixties they were called Silent Majority, in the seventies they were called Hard Hats, in the Eighties the Moral Majority, in the Nineties they were called the Gingrich Revolutionaries, and now they have morphed into the Tea Party. One thing hasn't changed in all that time. It is mostly SOUTHERN, WHITE and OLD.