[Paine in the Neck]

Actually, everything the John Birch Society said was going to happen has or is happening.

This is so but the reason that JBS is being mentioned is that the Left was highly successful in marginalizing JBS as kooks. They want to bind that meme to the Tea Party thus reliving one of their great propaganda successes.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is so but the reason that JBS is being mentioned is that the Left was highly successful in marginalizing JBS as kooks.

Alinsky's rules for radicals #5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."

Trouble is, for low-information types, all they hear is the ridicule and think no further.