[mrsmel]

I said that I agree with him on this one thing--that we shouldn't be raising any one person as the "messiah" of the right. I haven't said one negative thing about Sarah Palin--in fact, I said that I agree with her stances more often than not-but I would hope, and I believe, that she would be the first to say "Don't make this about me", because it's not about her. She is in almost every way an excellent spokesperson for the right, but Palin hysteria from the right is just as absurd and self-defeating as Hussein-hysteria was from the left. When it gets to the point that people can't even make criticisms of anything she does (in their opinion, as with any politician), things have reached hero-worshipping absurdity. I would say the same about any politician in the same position-as I said, it's not about Sarah Palin, it's about the way we are so desperate for leadership that we put too much expectation on any one person.

[alicewonders]

hero-worshipping absurdity

You hit the nail right on the head!

[SmokingJoe]

I said that I agree with him on this one thing—that we shouldn't be raising any one person as the “messiah” of the right

Well, he is wrong. The Tea Parties have never been about any one person. The Tea Parties were not founded by any one person. It was a spontaneous grassroots movement that sprang up as a reaction to 0bama’s out of control government spending and his Marxist takeover of the American economy. There is no “Messiah” in the Tea parties. “Messiahs” are the very antithesis of what the Tea parties are about.
This guy is creating his own bogyman then attacking it. He is addressing a problem that doesn't exist in an attempt to attack Sarah Palin.