Isn’t it a little ironic that David Welch shares his last name with Robert Welch...the founder of the John Birch Society?
As well as with Bruce... Welch of the Shadows, and GASP! with Bob... Welch of Fleetwood Mac.
Savor the irony. I wonder if David Welch is aware of it.
The Birch Society was a controlled and organized group. The Tea Party's a lot more amorphous and free-form. Maybe that unruliness is precisely what Welch objects to. But making it into something close to the exact opposite is bizarre, not to say unfair.
David Welch is part of the "GOP elite," but that's not really saying much nowadays. He's just a guy who worked on campaigns till he got a (presumably highly paid) consultant's job. Not exactly a Rockefeller.