Despite all the headlines about their impact on the upcoming midterms, I have a theory that out in the political heartland, the trashing by the Tea Partiers may be preparing the battlefield for a much more profound second wave of disaffected, independent voters, who could make the Tea Party look like, well, a tea party.

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Yes, the judge engages in extended discourses on constitutional history and theory, quotes the Federalist papers and even mentions the events that led up to the original Tea Party.

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