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				The Tea Party is not a political party, O'Donnell is a republican, thus thats why she was in the primary. 
			
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 Pretty much one and the same now:
New tea party: energy, money and detente with GOP - Yahoo! News
"Separate tea party groups still squabble over roles for Republican insiders within the movement, but the conservative activists and GOP stalwarts have reached a truce for the common goal of defeating Democrats, heeding calls for unity from Republicans including Sarah Palin."
Don't know why Republicans would want to directly associate themselves with a bunch of reckless, racist hillbillies.  YeeeeHaaawwwww!!
