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Tea Party Rally 2010 J. Scott ApplewhiteAP

No, the Tea Party Isn’t Dead. It’s Just Waiting.

The left chortled on Monday after learning the results of a new Gallup poll showing an all-time low for Tea Party support. According to Gallup, just 17 percent of Americans say they support the Tea Party, with 24 percent calling

Mitt Romney Interviews Former Running Mate Paul Ryan In Chicago

Mitt Romney Holds Off on Backing Paul Ryan for Speaker

Failed GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee, held off on supporting his ex-running mate for Speaker of the House in an interview with David Axelrod, a Democratic strategist who helped elect President Barack Obama—the same Obama who beat Romney in the 2012 election.

Republican presidential hopefuls Ben Carson and Donald Trump participate in the Republican Presidential Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California on September 16, 2015. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump stepped into a campaign hornet's nest as his rivals collectively turned their sights on the billionaire in the party's second debate of the 2015. AFP PHOTO / FREDERIC J. BROWN (Photo credit should read

Donald Trump vs. Ben Carson: Energy vs. Ideology

The intriguing similarity between Donald Trump and Ben Carson is that both continually defy conventional wisdom and flourish despite coordinated media/Democrat attacks. That’s partially because so many voters have come to despise the corrupt system, and they’re weary of hyper-sensitive freakout-prone popular culture.

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Conservative Media, GOP Establishment Push Paul Ryan For Speaker

The problem is that the Republican leadership betrayed their own base one time too many. What happened in 2014 was quite simple: the GOP asked voters to give them both House and Senate to put the brakes on Obama’s disastrous agenda, and the voters took them up on it. The capitulations and walkbacks began with days of the last races being called. The old song-and-dance about how “we’ll fight next time” and “we need just a little more power to get anything done” was performed one last time, to disastrous effect.