What's your evidence that "Shut up Tea Party" is MR's utterance? The very same article appears on Townhall under the title "The Talk Radio Party?". How do you know "Michael Reagan: Shut up Tea Party" isn't just Western Journalism's click bait?
There is no point to making a point in a primary election only to cede the seat to a 'Rat in November. It feels good for a few months, but it's not worth the hangover.
“Shut up” means you should not have a voice and your opinions do not matter . That must be his attitude toward conservatives
Then shame on WJ for the misleading header: when you run a headline, and then you run the original article, and not a commentary on the original article, then it is very misleading to change the header. Thus, that they ran MR’s article in toto, is the evidence the MR said it. As it turns out, that evidence is misleading.
Shame shame on WJ. This does change the coloring of MR’s remarks, but the damage by WJ’s header is done.