Just confirming something you've known all along: the "Tea Party Movement" is nothing more than Bush's Base with a new label:
As Avenging Angel nicely summarized in an earlier diary, a new poll from Gallup today has the right spinning the idea that the Tea Party is "mainstream".
Leaving aside the question of why the right would celebrate the movement that is going to eat it one day very soon, I've got another thought on my mind.
Suppose instead of
Tea Partiers Are Fairly Mainstream
Gallup had instead used the more honest
Support for Tea Party Nearly Identical to Approval of Worst. President. Evah.
Do you think the right-wind pundits would be quite so triumphal right now?