Demands of orthodoxy from the Tea Party base make it very difficult for Republican Presidential candidates to backtrack toward the middle.

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The embrace of an ideologue like Paul Ryan may appeal to the Republican Party's Tea Party base, but it will completely alienate independent voters, especially in battleground states.

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But overall the main effect of this is to - is to energize the Tea Party groups and the Republican base.

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To the Republican base, Mr Ryan is the distilled essence of tea, a determined tax-cutter and state-shrinker.

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But he's a tea party favorite who would energize the GOP base while also signaling Mr. Romney's outreach to Hispanic voters.

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With his eye on the general election, Romney wasn't so much buying the new Republican base -- the ultraconservative, once-and-future tea partiers -- as he was bribing them.

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The problem is that if the tea party returns to issues proven to fire up the base it will violate at least two of its major tenets: fiscal prudence and smaller government.

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Is Huntsman trying to grab up whatever slice of the Tea Party vote he can in order to appeal to the base?

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The Arabic letters in the phrase have numeric values that add up to 786, explains Maung Maung, a Muslim tea shop owner in Mandalay, Myanmar's spiritual capital and Wirathu's base.

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