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Edited on Fri Aug-12-11 10:53 PM by Armstead
The Teabaggers have been the "useful idiots" for the GOP the last couple of years. They brought energy and enthusiasm to a party that had been on the ropes, and brought it back to life.
And once they had a foothold in Congress, they advanced the GOP agenda.
But the poo-bahs in the GOP and their Corporate Owners probably hate those morons almost as much as we do. They have run amuck, and threaten to trash the economy and tarnish the reputation of the GOP real bad.
And the GOP and the Poo-Bahs don't like to see either their economy threatened nor their reputation (long term political viability) tarnished.
Soooooooo, my theory is that the GOP will most likely let the kids play for a while and get it out of their system. And allow them to think they are running the primary show.
But then they will lower the boom. They will rig the primaries so that one of the controllable Teabaggers (or pseudo-Teabaggers) like Perry take the nomination. And in Congressional races, they are going to quietly push the candidates who are likewise -- and co-opt the current Teabaggers into becoming amoral Washington Insiders with all the perks if they play ball.
Then, once the general elections are underway, the anointed candidates will take off the Teabag mask and be revealed as Moderate Conservatives. The candidate(s) will still be corporate conservatives, but suddenly they will get all reasonable and stuff. They will back off their previous fiscal craziness, and their religious beliefs will be downplayed or made to seem more mainstream. "Tea Party? Oh don't pay any attention to them. They're just a small segment of our party."
Thus the True Believing Teabag Troops will be relegated to supporting players. They'll be told (in a mirror image of what Liberal/Progressive Democrats have been hearing for years) "You have to work for us and vote for us or you'll be stuck with those awful Democrat Liberals."
And, add a promise that may become true: "And don't worry. Once we get in we'll do that stuff you want too, like slash and burn the budget, ban abortion and revoke all gay marriages."
And -- this is the scary part -- the more Moderate GOP will thus be made to seem more palatable to moderates and those "swing voters" because "they're so good at business." Those recent transgressions will be forgiven and forgotten by the majority, and instead the GOP will get back to their image as the "fiscally responsible problem solvers."
Therefore, if we want to win, we can't get too complacent. We can't assume that Rick Perry is too goofy or batshit crazy to become President, just because that's what he's doing now to get the nomination. And we have to be making records of the loonier pronouncements of the candidates. And don't let ADD America forget the Teabaggers and the destructive role they have played.
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