Ace
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10/16/2013
As you know, I go back and forth between siding with the Tea Party and the Establishment. Ask me three times in a week, and you might get three different answers.
But while I do think the Tea Party is sometimes wrongheaded in its theory of negotiation — that staking out the most maximalist position leads, more or less inevitably, to a better political resolution for the side staking it out — I do fault the Establishment for not re-calibrating its politics and realizing, The base is serious about these things…
…The GOP already has two huge opponents — the Democrat Party and the Democrat Media. It cannot add a third opponent to that list.
Political realities change, and so do political goals. The Tea Party has had it to the back of their teeth with small-government rhetoric. They do not want more small government rhetoric. They want smaller government.
And they would also like respect. Despite the Washington Post’s slur, I would like to point out that Tea Partiers are in fact wealthier and better-educated than the average American. It’s also quite clear that they are not-so-easily led at all.
They may be willing to be led, but they want to influence their leadership in turn.
Which is the way it used to be, all those years ago, in the years after America won its democratic republic in the Revolutionary War…
The entire article is at Ace of Spades HQ
