Sunshine Thinking for the Tea Party
My buddy David K over at Refuse the Juice and many like-minded people in the Tea Party Movement are probably drinking a little too much of their own Kool-Aide, or in this case, tea.
David K and others think Democrats are afraid of the Sarah Palins and Christine O’donnell’s of the world. Take this little excerpt from his piece yesterday:
“These Tea Party candidates like O'Donnell scare the shit out of the democrats and guys like Jaime Abeytia. They aren't your normal republican candidates. They're conservative populists! The democrats don't have anything in their play book to defeat candidates that tend to be more like the voters who vote for them. It's easy to attack a Bush-like character who no one can relate to. It's another thing to attack Suzie Homemaker/Candidate, because any criticism of her is a criticism of the average voter.”
I love that DK calls them conservative populists and think Democrats don’t have anything in their playbook to defeat candidates.
You guys go ahead and keep thinking that, I’m sure it helps you all sleep at night.
The reality is, we don’t have to do anything. All we have to do is sit and watch these candidates implode faster than Norma Chavez in a lower valley campaign forum.
The more voters get to know O’Donnell and her Nevada counterpart Sharon Angle, the more people are freaked out by how extreme they are.
Yes, while David K thinks they are “populists”, the fact is they are extremists. Don’t believe me? Check out this fun video of Christine O’Donnell in the 90’s doing an anti-masturbation campaign geared at youth profiled on MTV.
There’s the picture of a populist isn’t it? Sorry, but I don’t recall the evils of masturbation being something the masses have ever really exercised too much political activism about.
Maybe DK doesn’t get it, or maybe it’s just the desperation on the part of Republicans to find a face of the party that is appealing, but the idea that we Democrats are afraid of candidates that actually help us in November is silly.
So silly, someone should investigate to see if we Dems are actually secretly helping candidates that are extremists win GOP primaries!
David K and others think Democrats are afraid of the Sarah Palins and Christine O’donnell’s of the world. Take this little excerpt from his piece yesterday:
“These Tea Party candidates like O'Donnell scare the shit out of the democrats and guys like Jaime Abeytia. They aren't your normal republican candidates. They're conservative populists! The democrats don't have anything in their play book to defeat candidates that tend to be more like the voters who vote for them. It's easy to attack a Bush-like character who no one can relate to. It's another thing to attack Suzie Homemaker/Candidate, because any criticism of her is a criticism of the average voter.”
I love that DK calls them conservative populists and think Democrats don’t have anything in their playbook to defeat candidates.
You guys go ahead and keep thinking that, I’m sure it helps you all sleep at night.
The reality is, we don’t have to do anything. All we have to do is sit and watch these candidates implode faster than Norma Chavez in a lower valley campaign forum.
The more voters get to know O’Donnell and her Nevada counterpart Sharon Angle, the more people are freaked out by how extreme they are.
Yes, while David K thinks they are “populists”, the fact is they are extremists. Don’t believe me? Check out this fun video of Christine O’Donnell in the 90’s doing an anti-masturbation campaign geared at youth profiled on MTV.
There’s the picture of a populist isn’t it? Sorry, but I don’t recall the evils of masturbation being something the masses have ever really exercised too much political activism about.
Maybe DK doesn’t get it, or maybe it’s just the desperation on the part of Republicans to find a face of the party that is appealing, but the idea that we Democrats are afraid of candidates that actually help us in November is silly.
So silly, someone should investigate to see if we Dems are actually secretly helping candidates that are extremists win GOP primaries!
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