NUGENT: Tea Party time is now

The Republican Party will make another strategic political blunder by not openly embracing the Tea Party and its candidates. What the GOP pundits, elites and establishment had better realize real quick is that Republicans need the Tea Party more than the Tea Party needs Republicans. Americans are not just frustrated with liberal Fedzillacrats who are addicted to all things big-government, like waste, unaccountability and enslavement. Americans who still cherish our Founding Fathers' vision also are disgusted with Republicans who purposefully strayed from their core values of limited government, responsible spending and lower taxes. Conservatives, the historic base of the GOP, watched in despair over the past 20 years or so as Republicans turned away from them and treated them as political pariahs, excess baggage and people to be shunned. Big, ugly, dumb mistake...more