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Jacob Heilbrunn: Will The Tea Party Movement Sink Or Save The Republican Party?

Jacob Heilbrunn: Will The Tea Party Movement Sink Or Save The Republican Party?
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Republican electoral prospects may be looking up with the retirement of Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and with a host of other Democratic seats up for grabs, but the statement, which appeared on the eve of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, suggests that the establishment right is shivering -- not so much because of the unusually frosty Washington winter but because of the potential threat posed to the GOP by the insurgent "tea party" movement. As a result, conservatives are going into overdrive to attempt to co-opt it.

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