“Rove’s comments the other night are starting to look like the seminal moment. The outrage has scared the Republican establishment to their core. The backlash against Rove is going to go down as the moment the Republican party “got the message” that they can either work for the Tea Party, or get replaced by them. there is no privileged place, theer. I don’t think we can trust them yet, but the Republican party establishment now knows they need to be afraid. They will not be able to use this movement to return to a Rockefeller Republican role. They’ll probably still try, though.
In the last 48 hours I’ve heard real originality rhetoric from Hucakbee, Rove and Michael Steele.
The fight will go on for many more years, but I think Rove’s comments were a key moment.”
Great points. And some people still don’t understand why O’Donnell’s victory was so important. It may not seem like it, but last night was one of the most important points in American political history. For better or worse, the fight is now in the open.
But you are also right that we need to remain vigilant. At least with Democrats you know that you cannot trust them. It is the Republicans working against conservatism/constitutional government that are the most damaging, because they can be so difficult to spot, and it is tempting to just tolerate them.
We need to keep our enemies close and our friends closer.