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He s walked away from mandates on health care. so has newt gingrich. so in that sense you could argue maybe that the tea party has actually won. yeah, that s a good point. i think that to the degree that it s the end of the tea party i mean it in the sense of as a distinct oppositional force. because i think what we ve seen is a kind of co-option, and that co-option has moved in both directions. i think you re exactly right to say that what we ve seen from the positions taken by the primary candidates is to cater as much as is humanly possible to the most sort of radical notions. i mean, you have people who were going to be front-runners like rick perry saying they want to get rid of social security, which is really about as far out there as you can get. right. and you ve got too the fact thaç they just there are so many candidates out there now vying for the tea party vote, vying for the christian conservative vote, that you know, they haven t been able to sort of ....