Could the Tea Party actually be Obama's salvation. No.

Could the Tea Party actually be Obama's salvation in 2012? Salon's news editor Steve Kornacki is creaming, er dreaming over the prospect

“ In other words, the possibility that he'll wind up a one-term president has never seemed so real. Economic anxiety is what motivates swing voters, and the more they feel it, the more eager they are to vote out incumbents. This is the rule that explains why Jimmy Carter lost his job in 1980 and why George H.W. Bush lost his in 1992, and there's no real reason to think it won't apply next year if the economy doesn't turn around. Unless ... well, have you seen the latest poll on the Republican Party's image? ” Let's put aside that this Kornacki chap would rely on CNN polling as basis for anything.  And forget that the NY Times just published a memorandum from Bill Clinton​’s pollster Stanley Greenberg​ that warned : Voters in the developed world are turning away from Democrats, Socialists, liberals and progressives. Voters feel ever more estranged from government—and they associate Democrats with government.” If they are to win trust, and votes, Democrats must show they are as determined as the Tea Party movement to change the rules of the game This distrust of government and politicians is unfolding as a full-blown crisis of legitimacy [and] sidelines Democrats and liberalism." Because CNN may be on to something, and Kornacki has  misinterpreted it. ' If  asked to identify myself as a Democrat, Republican or Independent, as my voter registration board does, I must respond Republican so  I can vote in the Republican primary.  Besides, I view "Independents" as Democrats in disguise to game the pollsters, or idiots who can't name either of their U.S. Senators.  But— I am one of these Republicans touted by CNN . “ A lot of that anger seems directed toward the GOP.  According to the survey, favorable views of the Republican party dropped eight points over the past month, to 33 percent. Fifty-nine percent say they have an unfavorable view of the Republican party, an all-time high dating back to 1992 when the question was first asked. ” I want every establishment Republican defeated in 2012.  But, I certainly don't want them replaced by Democrats.  Egad!  I want them replaced by Tea Party candidates with an established public record of being conservative.  I will bet money that a good chunk of the "Republicans" cited  in that poll want the same thing.