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That Tea Party Isn’t So Dead After All

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Would you like a better topic than the President’s State Of The Union speech?  On the off chance you’re curious about it, it can likely be summed up as ‘blah blah blah fairness blah blah Republican obstructionism blah blah green jobs blah blah I’m awesome.’   Instead, how about a few signs that the Tea Party isn’t quite as dead as its detractors would hope?

  • Governor Walker has $2.6 million cash on hand for the recall elections as of the end after last quarter, and raised $12 million since January 2011.  A good start considering how rabid his opponents are.  That whole ‘everything in Wisconsin is improving now that they’re not as influential’ thing isn’t sitting well with them and they’re still at it.  Still, it seems we have Walker’s back for now.
  • The Republican Senatorial nomination of Ted Cruz, DeMint’s pick for the seat to replace Kay Bailey Hutchinson has tied the fundraising of Dewhurst, the RINO Lieutenant Governor currently in the lead.  Cruz is gaining on him and Dewhurst’s support is dropping, but Dewhurst can self-fund heavily.  Cruz’ spike still shows strong growth and it wouldn’t be happening without Tea Party activism.
  • The Gingrich surge is more an expression of displeasure than anything else.  He’s not actually conservative lately despite some very strong past performance in that regard.  He is however fighting back, which is what the Tea Party and activists want.  The measurement here is that an establishment pick like Romney is on the verge of being thrashed heavily.  This doesn’t happen with weak conservative opposition.  People like the Bushes, Dole, and McCain make it through without much trouble, and we might just avoid a repeat.

Now for a more fun thought.  Perhaps the Tea Party isn’t dead.  Perhaps they just shifted to more practical activism from protests.  The ‘making noise’ part didn’t work for them, which would make the tactical shift a simple question of good sense.  Politicians may ignore protests, but threaten their jobs by ending other RINO tenures with primaries and they at least pretend to fall into line.

More smart, less loud, and definitely not dead.  Looking forward to a Tea Party 2012.

News link credit:  Hot Air

Remember Your Etiquette Wingnuts

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Truly, the lack of civility in American political discourse today is pandemic.

Now, while we may have some legitimate disagreements with those terrorist, hostage-taking Tea Party cavemen, we would never resort to ad hominem attacks.  Furthermore, we would never stoop so low as to raise our voices in anger when they oppose us on climate change, even if they are as bad as Holocaust deniers while they’re using baby seals for target practice.  We understand that it may take a while for them to realize that carbon should be taxed by the gram and will happily show the slopeheaded imbeciles all the understanding they require while their tiny impaired brains catch up to our genius.

Still, we would admonish them to be more reasonable in their debate and not torment us with their tax cut withdrawal symptoms as the psychotic addicts that they are.  Just because our policies have never worked and that we’re borrowing more money than we can hope to repay is no reason some drooling horde of yellow-flag waving wingnuts should throw a childish hissy fit and oppose us.  They should follow McCain’s example of bipartisanship and epic campaign failure.

Now, be good little serfs and remember who your betters are while keeping your discourse civil.  Better still, keep your discourse nonexistent.  That way, we don’t have to remind you that strapping on your suicide bombs is a bad way to debate, you terrorist extremist racist bigoted homophobic Tea Party losers.

Time to Wait and See

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It’s an unusual gesture to see from a Republican, but credit where credit is due.  Boehner responded to Reid’s threat to shut down the repeal of Obamacare with real nerve.  The letter shows uncharacteristic fight from the Republicans, and now it’s time to wait and see.

Wait and see for what?  Wait and see if Boehner is for real.  Wait and see if the Republicans use their one veto-proof power of “not appropriate” to shrink government and put us back on the path of sanity.

Then again, we can also wait and see if it’s business as usual.  If this letter was simply opposition theater.  Sound and fury for the benefit of the Tea Parties, believing that they’ll buy it if it’s not accompanied by real action.  If this is the case, there will be hell to pay for the Republicans come 2012.

So in the end, I’m not recommending we wait any longer than to see one way or the other.  Only a few months at most will tell the Republicans’ real direction.  Then we determine what to do from there.

Do We Really Need To Start This Early?

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A Republican Presidential debate come spring of 2011?! Do we really need to start the Presidential campaign this early? The last Republican Presidential nomination process was too long, especially considering the fact it produced The Chipmunk John McCain as the eventual winner.

Yes, the term ‘winner’ is being used loosely here.

So, what’s to tell this early on?

  1. No candidates have yet entered the field, or not enough to make a difference.  If anyone has entered this soon and is doing more than building their ground game, their endless campaigning is going to be very, very old come primary season.
  2. We’ll see some candidates and know in advance what I’ve been fearing since Obama was first elected:  We have a field of complete losers, any of which will, if nominated, pull a repeat of McCain’s Epic Presidential Fail in 2008.

Furthermore, the Tea Party now exists where it did not in 2008.  As they have previously demonstrated in the recent Colorado governor’s race with Maes and in NY-23 by Scozzafava, deserting utter loser Republican candidates for third party runs is no longer out of the question.  In fact, said loser Republican drops to single percentage points in the end, a fate which may be repeated by some RINO loser if they’re awful enough in 2012.

But off topic to one of the few bright sides in 2008, McCain can’t bear the fact he lost to Obama, or so the reporting goes.  If it’s true, then every time he decides to go RINO, we can get on his nerves right back by reminding him of his Epic Presidential Fail.  Think about it:  We can be fighting his latest idiocy defensively for six years and be stuck with him, or he can be stuck with us.

As for the Republicans?  There’s still plenty of time not to bungle the 2012 Presidential nomination.  Whether or not they will use it to good effect remains to be seen, but their history since ’88 doesn’t leave much for encouragement.