[Yosemitest]

From the original source:

" Tea Partiers are likely to argue that the GOP lost in 2012 not because it emulated them but because it ignored them.
That’s partly why they’re fighting Karl Rove’s attempt to purge them –
why should they take the punishment when they didn't commit the crime?
On his radio show, Mark Levin asked the question that we’re all thinking –
“Who the hell died and made Karl Rove queen for the day?”
– and went on to point out that
Rove was the guy
who helped put Bush in to the White House,
who spent all the money that pushed America further in to debt
and so put the USA where it is today.
Why should the Tea Party defer to an establishment that a) loses elections and b) governs like Democrats? To quote Levin,

These people need a hard, swift kick in the ass off the public stage
because they're making it much more difficult to persuade more and more Americans that we have to win some elections quickly.
These people are getting rich off of this federal leviathan.
They go on T.V. and talk about how awful Obama is,
but they attack us.
They really don't think Obama is that awful.
What bothers them about Obama is that they're NOT running things, that's what really bothers them.

In short, the Tea Party revolution will continue because Tea Partiers see no need for it to end –
and they even have the Senate Majority Leader in their sites.
Given this, what are the establishment’s chances for beating them down?
At first glance, poor.
Thanks to the primary system there’s NO REASON WHY conservative candidates SHOULDN’T CONTINUE TO RUN and do well in Republican contests.
And the party machine might actually do itself HARM by campaigning AGAINST them.
As Kellyanne Conway points out,
“Ironically, the establishment wizards tried to stop the two MOST PROMINENT Hispanic Republicans in Washington FROM WINNING the U.S. Senate seats they now hold”– Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.

Variety and ideological competition can actually HELP the GOP in the long run.
The Tea Party HASN'T been a complete disaster for the GOP.

But the establishment may yet succeed in silencing the Right IF Fox turns decisively AGAINST the Tea Party.
For that would starve them of the oxygen of national publicity and contribute to a national pivot to the centre.
It’s interesting to read that Fox is now both America’s “most trusted” and “least trusted” news service,
which suggests that audiences are tiring of its partisanship.
It looks like Roger Ailes has decided that 2012 REALLY DID MARK a historic shift in politics and that his product has to ADAPT to survive.
If this means excluding maverick voices from Fox shows,
the Tea Party could end up losing its stake in the national conversation.
It will continue to make news, but its opportunity to speak for itself without hostile editorializing will be lost.
Then it’ll be reduced to a handful of movement media outlets without a wider audience.
As I’ve written a lot recently, the greatest threat facing the Tea Party is ghettoisation.
You can’t speak “truth to power” IF no one’s listening. "

Fox need a conservative competitor, right now.
Rush, it's time you bought a T.V. Channel, and let Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, and others of your choosing run it.
But don't use Bill O'Reilly, because that RINO would destroy it.

[Graewoulf]

Karl Rove’s ideas have failed, white board and all.

Karl has dug his Buckley Rule defeatist hole, and only knows how to dig it deeper.

It is time for us to reject the Buckley Rule and Karl Rove.