Is the Tea Party hurting the GOP, and actually helping the Democrats?

Yes because they are trying to push them further to the right. They don't want compromise or any recognizing of the Liberal agenda. They don't like Democrats period.

That's no way to run a country. What they want is opposite of what they call socialism. On steroids.

The Tea Party kept the GOP from taking three very winnable senate seats in Missouri, Delaware and Nevada. If those folks stayed out of the primary and just showed up for the general election the GOP would have the White House and both branches of congress.

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