The three of us see through him and I'm certain we have a lot of company. "Disdain" is precisely what Viguerie has for the GOP.
Richard Viguerie is the owner/publisher of THIRD PARTY WATCH, and it wasn't too long ago that Bob Barr and Viguerie were trying to takeover the Libertarian Party so that Barr could run under its banner. I don't recall if Viguerie succeeded, but Barr did mount a run.
Oh wait, I found an article. Here's the money paragraph:
"If they succeed, the Libertarian Party will become just one more mouthpiece for malcontent Republicans." LOL.
Yes, I remember the Barr presidential effort and his strange alliance with the ACLU. It was very discouraging to learn that Barr and Viguerie weren’t really on the side of true conservatism.
If recent polling data is to be believed, the Tea Party movement IS the Republican party for all intents and purposes.
Viguerie claims "the Republican establishment disdains this populist uprising." Maybe.
I don't know of any Republicans in office who "disdains" the tea parties. I do know Republicans who are happy to be associated with the tea parties, and fight to get on the podiums! In my experience the "disdain" is directed at the party and comes from dissaffected Republican voters.
However, as the year has stretched on, a failed Republican presidential bid is fading, and this discontent is waning while the current administration and congress hands the public one onerous outrage after another.
What's happening in the tea parties is that people are actually using the Constitution to ground and form policy choices, and as a constructive means to hold the political establishment accountable.
Our constitutional system of checks and balances is currently in shambles. Congress refuses to hold the President accountable constitutionally, and the courts refuse to hold the other two branches accountable.
This is why the 10th Amendment is becoming so popular within the Tea Party Movement, and why that Amendment is becoming the bane of statists in the political establishment.
I agree with Viguerie's comments here -- to a point. It's too bad Viguerie doesn't name names when he writes about these "statists" in the political establishment.
The tea party movement is young and emotional and sometimes reckless. I don't know, ultimately, where it will lead, and neither does anyone else.