Tea Parties: GOP Once Again Manipulating the Average Joe

[HowHasItComeToThis]

http://ostroyreport.blogspot.com/2009/04/tea-parties-savvy-gop-once-again.html


During the eight miserable, ineffective and wasteful years of the Bush administration, Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove, the president's chief political advisor, deftly crafted a successful strategy of turning the "little guy" on himself. That being, to divert and distract these Average Joes away from the real issues that effect them--unemployment, wages, health care, education--and instead drive them to the polls through hot-button issues including abortion, gay-marriage and life-support (Terri Schiavo). For a long while, it worked. The little guy consistently voted against his own self-interests.

But the little guy's not completely stupid, and the inevitable backlash began with the 2006 midterm elections where Democrats won a small Congressional majority, and kicked into high gear last November, with Barack Obama's presidential victory and the Democratic landslide in the House and Senate. Dejected, the GOP crawled away a broken, dysfunctional family. A tarnished brand. But as this year's tax season rolled around, conservatives issued a rallying cry in the form of "tea parties," those ill-founded, embarrassing, scantly attended protests that were held Wednesday across the nation. Though touted by organizers (most likely GOP funded and supported) as being attended by "Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and Independents," judging from the crowds and the signs they waved, it was pretty clear this was a decidedly anti-Obama movement. And that's the insane part.

[theoldman]

1. Don't sell the Republican leadership short.

They are crafty and know how to screw the ignorant into following them. Only a fool would believe that the tea parties were bipartisan. Do you know any Democrat dumb enough to attend one of the tea parties?

[biopowertoday]

2. and don't assume there were no Democrats

or those who voted for Obama at the Parties.