Wow. Thanks for posting that. Yes absolutely clueless...and a useful idiot to their cause.
Talk about intolerant...
Why the Tea Party is toxic for the GOP
By Michael Gerson
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Yet the Republican Party suffers its own difficulty — an untested ideology at the core of its appeal.
In the normal course of events, political movements begin as intellectual arguments, often conducted for years in serious books and journals. To study the Tea Party movement, future scholars will sift through the collected tweets of Sarah Palin. Without a history of clarifying, refining debates, Republicans need to ask three questions of candidates rising on the Tea Party wave:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/24/AR2010082405001.html
Most Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement are understandably concerned about the size and reach of government. Their enthusiasm is a clear Republican advantage. But Tea Party populism is just as clearly incompatible with some conservative and Republican beliefs. It is at odds with Abraham Lincoln’s inclusive tone and his conviction that government policies could empower individuals. It is inconsistent with religious teaching on government’s responsibility to seek the common good and to care for the weak. It does not reflect a Burkean suspicion of radical social change.