Posted on 05/20/2013 9:03:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Back in their day, the tea party folks were riding high, fueling indignation over alleged government-run death panels, a treasonous Federal Reserve and the like. They commandeered sparsely attended Republican primaries, managing to nominate for Senate seats a dabbler in witchcraft in Delaware, holders of strange views on rape in Missouri and Indiana, and in Nevada, a candidate suggesting armed insurrection if her people didn't win elections.
All lost -- some in races an old-fashioned Republican would have won. In the interest of party self-preservation, Republican leaders sidelined the more extreme tea partiers, or tried to. Meanwhile, the tea party's approval ratings among the wider electorate crumbled.
Then came the scandal over the IRS's focus on groups bearing tea party-type names. Finally, the demoted warriors had a real thing to be furious over. That President Obama expressed his own anger, saw the IRS commissioner replaced and supports an investigation made little impression. Last weekend, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called for IRS officials responsible for this targeting to be put in jail.
Some say that by not more closely monitoring America's tax collecting agency, President Obama handed the Republican Party a big present. Just the appearance of political motive in subjecting a group to extra scrutiny is bad, and this had the appearance.
But unfortunately for the wiser Republicans, the beautifully wrapped present is a boomerang. Give the tea party people a boomerang, and moderate Republicans will get hurt. The first injuries are already being reported.....
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
From the comments section I don’t think readers are buying it.
The tone is changing. I typically go read at least the first few comments of these articles, and people at least appear to be waking up, at least in WaPo and NYT.
Hummm interesting
Real Clear Politics is doing RINO GOPE hit pieces on Tea Party from a frump.
The RCP publisher has a Sunday talkie on Chicago’s WLS (am 890 50K watts) who preceeded Cunningham’s 9 pm Sunday yakaty yak. Since WLS dropped Cunninghambone don’t go to either. Actually I prefer Bachelor who’s on WABC and am 810 out of Texas in that time slot when either signal comes in. Not set up to do plug in’s .
an odd unattractivre name for an odd unattractive person....
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