The long knives of the Republican Party are out to
emasculate the Tea Party. Since Republican
Representative Paul Ryan got his budget compromise (with Democrat Senator Patty
Murray) passed into law, the establishment Republicans are feeling their oats …
big mistake. First John Boehner unloaded
both barrels on Ted Cruz and the “Don’t tread on me” crowd … see:
Huffington Post Story ... saying,
“Frankly, I just
think that they’ve [the Tea Party] lost all credibility.” In the past I have thought that Boehner
wasn’t immensely bright … but that he had good political senses. I think he might have just disproved this
supposition of mine.
Joining in this bashing of the right-wing of the Republican
party are Karl Rove … see
Breitbart Story and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce … see:
Another Breitbart Story These have both been stalwarts of the
Republican party but apparently believe that the ideological purity of the Tea
Party members have cost their party too much in the polls and at the polling
place. Yes, to some degree these two
representatives of the establishment of the GOP are correct. But then one can also argue that this same
wing of the Republican party have also had their share of political miscues …
need I mention John McCain, Mitt Romney, Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush, etc.? And even George W. Bush, Karl Rove’s hand
puppet, did his level best to discourage the more conservative members of his
party.
2010 was the coming-out victory for the Tea Party. As a consequence, what did the Republican
establishment do? They did not monetarily
support them (witness the recent governor’s race in Virginia) and did nothing
to counter the smear campaign that the main-stream media has been reveling in
ever since 2010. In other words, the Tea Party-ers are pariahs to not just
Democrats … but also to establishment Republicans. The Democrats have embraced their radical
left, but the Republicans have been much too public in their opposition to
their right wing. How stupid can supposedly bright politicians be?!
The 2016 presidential election will be the acid test for establishment Republicans. Paul Ryan and Chris Christie will fight for
their nod … while Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz (maybe Sarah Palin?) will work the crowd on the Tea-Party
right. If the establishment Republicans
nominate their candidate, they will lose once more. (As Rush Limbaugh often
says, if voters have a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, the Democrat ... Hillary Clinton ... will always win.) If however the Tea
Party prevails and the establishment Republicans, out of spite, abandon them in
the Presidential election, I predict that this will also mean that Hillary will re-enter the White House. But the
Tea Party will not have lost everything. They
will, in effect, have replaced the old-guard GOPers as the future of their party. That is, if we have a country left in 2020 to vie for.
