re: #339 nonic

What is “kooky” about protesting fiscal irresponsibility? Anyway, I haven’t seen any evidence that the tea party protests are a GOP phenomenon. It seems to be a taxpayer phenomenon.

Agreed. Read all my posts. I’m not referring the people who are genuinely disaffected by the stimulus (all of us) but the people that would co-opt the movement to further their own radical agenda—which was the initial topic of the thread as I recall.

It is really very simple. The media is hostile to the GOP and the conservative movement. There is the narrow sliver of the electorate which usually swings elections. You do not do anything to alienate that portion of the electorate if you want to win—that mean depriving the media of any fodder which makes the whole party look bad.

The problem is that the further lurch to the right by Fox, and people like Ron Paul’s followers are giving the media that very fodder.

Napoleon said that it was bad manners to interrupt your enemy while he’s making a mistake. No one else is going to tell us how bad the GOP is getting—we have to do it ourselves.