Thanks for the comments, as I really wondered what everyone was thinking about it. I'm disinclined to fearmonger over right-wing freaks, and I have generally ignored Beck except to make fun of him, but the other day it struck me that if anyone listened to him, or if he could properly tap into TP audiences, it could be dangerous. Doug's comment about the GOP winning seats in November seemed on the money to me, and, in contrast to SA's point below, the situation reminds me less of the Reagan Revolution than the Gingrich Revolution. And we saw what happened to that.
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:05 PM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/30/2010 3:36 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
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>> These mobilizations of the disgruntled rank and file on both the left and
>> the right typically occur in opposition parties in times of crisis and
>> quickly dissipate after they successfully restore their party leaders to
>> power.
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> The issue isn't how many seats the TP win for the GOP but which candidates
> get elected and what their programs are. If you haven't noticed, in several
> races TP activists have managed to knock off candidates from the Republican
> establishment in the primaries and replace them with their own candidates,
> and in other races the GOP incumbents survived challenges only by moving
> sharply to the right (like McCain in AZ).
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> So I don't think this is true:
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