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J.R. Dunn's American
Thinker piece sparkles with insights about what the Tea Party is,
and the "counter-revoltion" that's begun. It is today's best article
ever written.
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New York, divided as it is between an ultraliberal NYC and environs,
and Mohawk Valley and adjacent mountain regions, in which the
population has been reduced to a peasantry doing what they're told and
voting the way they're supposed to. (This explains the election of
Hillary, if you were wondering.)
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the GOP elite, directly descended from the Rockefeller moderates,
consistently steered the party back to the left. Congressional
Republicans in large part were satisfied to remain a party of
doppelganger Democrats, stifling any impulse for serious change. (A
single example will suffice: In the midst of the Gingrich insurrection,
with Bill Clinton on the ropes due to indiscretions with half the women
on the East Coast, the best the GOP could come up with as an opponent
was Robert Dole, Mr. Go-Along-to-Get-Along in the flesh.)
- O'Donnell and Paladino may well fail --many of
the candidates may
fail in one way or another either before or after the elections. But it
will make no difference in the long term. It's no longer a matter of
counting seats, making compromises, and hustling deals; it is a matter
of smashing a rotten, corrupt, and enervated system based on an errant
and repellent view of human nature and replacing it with something
perhaps not perfect, but at least in tune with our constitutional
traditions, the political nature of this country's people, and the
century we live in. The people are leading, and the politicians will
follow -- or they will go to the wall.
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