Posted on 10/22/2010 5:37:47 AM PDT by libstripper
Two central facts give shape to the historic 2010 election. The first is not understood by Republicans, and the second not admitted by Democrats.
The first: the tea party is not a "threat" to the Republican Party, the tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn't remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.
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What no one is talking about are the possible secondary impacts of the 2010 election cycle.
Liberals are powerful because they have been perceived as being in the majority. 2010 can prove that they aren't. Then what?
If they aren't in the majority how can they command large salaries and leadership positions?
Without large salaries and leadership positions, both highly visible signs of success, how can they convince the rest of the uninformed masses to follow the correct path as they define it.
The recent sale of Newsweek for a single dollar could be the sign of things to come. Peggy is no fool. She has two choices and only two choices. Get ahead of the forthcoming change so she can continue to command large salaries and leadership positions. Or, stay the course and go down with the rest of the liberals and lose the money and power she now enjoys. If Obama's economic leadership team are jumping ship because they see the forthcoming change why should Peggy be any different?
Her opinion is a weather vane. It’s worth about as much as sticking your head out the window to see if it’s raining.
Ms. Tucker, in the interview, ran through the misconceptions people have about tea partiers: "that they're all racists, they're all religious nuts, they're all uninformed, they're all stupid, they want no taxes at all and no regulations whatsoever." These stereotypes, she observed, are encouraged by Democrats to keep their base "on their side." But she is not a stereotype: "Anyone who thinks I'm crazy about Sarah Palin, Bush, etc., has made quite the presumption. I have voted Democrat all my life, until I started listening to what Obama was promising and started wondering how the hell will this utopian dream be paid for?"
George W. Bush: Mr. RINO himself.
GWB makes John McCain look like a conservative.
You will forever be known as an Obama supporter. You had a case of the “Vapors” and fainted in his arms, as he led you and other fools toward the destruction of this country.
You will wear that label like a Scarlet Letter forever.
On re-reading, some things I didn’t like. She criticized Bush way too much. That always ticks me off.
The Tea Party, & libertarians, are bailing out
the Republicans......'cuz their too big to fail.
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