Silencing The TEA Party, Cranks, Haters And Bigots

The media loves the fringe elements of the Republican party.  They love the costumes, the protest signs, the imagery of minutemen ready to fight in the streets.  It makes for sensational TV, boosts ratings and whips up flames of discontent within a party the MSM would like to help Barack Obama destroy.

But among those who see the damage which is being done to the republican brand these same people who get media attention for themselves by being disagreeable are about to get less attention, or at least that is the plan.

POLITICO reports that there is an all out push to marginalize the dissenters which in the POLITICO piece one un-named high profile Republican strategist called the "cranks, haters and bigots" continuing to say "there’s a lot of underbrush that has to be cleaned out.”

So FoxNews parted ways with Sarah Palin and Dick Morris, Karl Rove has formed a new organization looking to help keep controversial candidates from winning republican primaries and it looks like the TEA party folks who did squeak by are either going to have to climb in the "Rove-boat" or be set adrift.

Not everybody agrees with this strategy.  Also quoted in the POLITICO piece is Steve Deace, a talk-radio host in Iowa who said "“Rove’s prominent and annoying display on Fox News as the Republican ruling class’ mouthpiece and his new effort aimed at defeating the Tea Party makes him the point man for destroying the very conservative movement that made him a national name in politics in the first place,”

And don't expect the TEA party to go away quietly in Kentucky.  A number of Lincoln dinner invitations have already listed Rand Paul and Thomas Massie as speakers.  I doubt either will be toeing the establishment line in their remarks

But as the TEA party continues to take on the GOP from within, unless their numbers grow significantly, odds are the influence of the most extreme ones out there will result in a record without accomplishment and a hand picked primary opponent to soon begin offering alternatives to the voter.

Whereas Tri-Corner hats may have been all the rage not so long ago, party unity may be the new fashion trend this spring.

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Comments

[Mr. Scott Ryan]

@Rhoda.

I couldn't care less about Ron Paul and he is not my leader and Ron Paul was not trying to explain away a murder.

And Ron Paul couldn't care less about you or I.
His audience is the young people on college campuses. He knows you and I were going to be offended by his tweet.

And you must understand that Foreign Policy and the concept of blowback is what put him on the map in 2007 ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD7dnFDdwu0

And this ideal is the only one that will continue to make headlines since the mainstream Republican Party has now adopted the rest of his platform.

It is only a matter of time before this last bullet point becomes main stream and Ron Paul can ride off into the sunset of irrelevance.

God Bless.

[Rhoda]

@ Mr. Scott Ryan, His leader invokes the warning words of Jesus to explain why an American soldier is murdered. Then after the uproar again blames a murder victim for participating in "unconstitutional wars." Geez, you wonder why it is sometimes hard to understand where "libertarians" are coming from.

[Mr. Scott Ryan]

I actually prefer Fineman's piece on Rove today.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-fineman/karl-rove-done-political-read_b_2635812.html

And I like my piece on Rove for further background ...

http://www.dailypaul.com/229977/why-was-paul-allowed-back-into-the-republican-party

Beck is no more a Libertarian than Rove is a Conservative. They are operatives. Their motives are cash and power, not ideology.

And I have a sneaky suspicion that this blog is an arm of the Rove machine. The political echo from the Rove machine that gets spun here all too often makes people wonder.