What happened to the Zot Party?

[rdl6989]

Enjoy the lightning show.

[rdl6989]

Now THAT is a zot!

[counterpunch]

Let’s take Glenn Beck as the perfect Tea Party Patriot example.
Glenn is socially conservative in his own life, and very religious.
He is also NOT a registered Republican, and is a self-described libertarian.

And Glenn has done more to build the Tea Party movement than anybody else.His latest Washington rally, Restoring Honor, and the Black Robed Regiment was, and is, an outreach to social conservatives, to bring them into the Tea Party, and show them how Tea Party values are their values. But notice how this was done on the Tea Party’s terms. Social conservatives were given a way in, and a reason for joining, but not at the expense of transforming the Tea Party into a vehicle for social causes.

[Old Sarge]

Dancing on the remains...

[vox_freedom]

Gee, I hate to be picky and a grammar nazi, but your use of the word "lifes" instead of "lives" shows you to be really stupid.
Oh, and besides, I'll bet a dollar to a donut that you are a:

[Sun]

You’re no conservative if money is your first priority.

[whitedog57]

It is never black and white. There are shades of social conservatives. But the left will paint a picture of social conservatives as fringe religious crazies. The more they are successful at doing that, the more we lose the middle. And you can’t win without the middle.

[whitedog57]

It is never black and white. There are shades of social conservatives. But the left will paint a picture of social conservatives as fringe religious crazies. The more they are successful at doing that, the more we lose the middle. And you can’t win without the middle.

[Mr. Silverback]

What you’ve said is true, but irrelevant. In 1984 the media—with far more control of information than they have now and a much less skeptical aufdience—were painting social conservatives as crazies who wanted nuclear war for Jesus right after all the gays died of AIDS. Hello, 49 state landslide.

You are sawing away at one of the legs of the stool. To say you aren’t doing the cause any favors would be understatement.

[Mr. Silverback]

BTW, I should have said theoretically true. It's theoretically true that we can lose the middle by including strong social conservatives, and it's theroetically true the media could successfully paint us as nuts, but in the real world we (a) haven't lost them (1980 and 1984) and (b) the media has been trying to paint the Tea Party as racist whack job central since April of 2009 and have gotten nowhere, so changing gears to anti-choice whack job central isn't going to work.

[Servant of the Cross]

Another BTW, to add to your good point, since the media will try to paint all of us Tea Party conservatives (socon, defcon, fiscalcon) and libertarians, as 'whackos' no matter what, who do you think they will be MORE successful in painting as a whacko?

[Mr. Silverback]

ROFLMBO! Exactly, exactly, exactly!

Plus, I may be reading too much into recent events, but I suspect the “Tea Parties are filling up with crazy Church Ladies” line will do about as well as Obama trying to make John Boehner into Darth Vader.

[Servant of the Cross]

... will do about as well as Obama trying to make John Boehner into Darth Vader.

Yes. And I loved the one last week where the true whacko Krugman tried to suggest Mitch (?!) McConnell as the Mob Boss (now that's ROFLMBO!):

[Mr. Silverback]

Can you imagine Mitch saying “Leave the gun, take the conoli?” Or how about, “SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!!!”

[Salem]

LOL!!  

[Salem]

Good one.  

[Mr. Silverback]

Thanks, bud!