For their demands for meaningful spending cuts under the weight of crushing debt, Tea Party activists have been showered with insults from an array of Republicans. Tea partiers have been called "worse than foolish," "unfair," "obtuse," "vain," and perhaps most puzzling, "hobbits."
Even conservative Thad McCotter says the "Time has come for the Tea Party to grow up."
I see all of this a bit differently.
Some Republicans are unprincipled, opportunistic RINOs ― and, yes, a few Tea Partiers are a bit naive and impatient.
But elder Republican statesmen who fancy themselves more sophisticated than the average Tea Partier would do well to demonstrate their level-headed maturity by educating and encouraging the Tea Party.
Republicans who instead endeavor to deride and demoralize the Tea Party are cowards and snobs.
In only two minutes and nine seconds, Mark Levin explains and analyses this story as well as anyone.
Rest easy, old son. You are watching the Twilight of the Gods; a frantic, atavistic frenzy of the remaining few bronotsaurii careening around the forest foraging for a few morsels as the sun sets on their world.
ReplyDeleteRemember that conservatism has a might junior varsity warming up in the wings: the elections of 2010 turned a lot of statehouses to red and, coupled with the redistricting, a number of these conservative state representatives will be waxing up their surfboards and looking to ride the big waves of a national job.
So, you will see less and less of this nonsense as these old dinosaurs die out.
..ugh! Enough of these tortured metaphors. That's the last time I have a Sunday breakfast of cold, anchovy pizza.
One DEBT to rule them all, One DEBT to chide them,
ReplyDeleteOne DEBT to bring them all and in the red-ink bind them
The RINOsaurs are as desperate to cling to power as we are to pry it away. I hope the Tea Party stays strong.
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