If Republican Scott Brown wins the Massachusetts special election today, the Bay State will have its first GOP senator since the era when disco was king. And Brown will have the much-derided Tea Party legions to thank. They've turned out in force, hoping he'll provide the vote needed to strangle Obamacare.
That ought to give pause to the "reformist" conservatives insisting that Reagan-Goldwater conservatism is dead. Yet the reformists' unofficial leader, former Bush speechwriter David Frum, puts a different spin on what Massachusetts portends.
Brown is no "talk-radio conservative," Frum maintains: As a state senator, he "voted in favor of Mitt Romney's health plan" and supported greenhouse gas curbs. It would be "a travesty" if his victory empowered "anger, paranoia and extremism," which is how Frum characterizes rank-and-file "rejectionism."
But it isn't a desire for Romney-ish RINOism that has Tea Partiers sleeping on couches and getting the vote out for Brown. They're Exhibit A in what Frum recently termed the "furious rejectionist frenzy" motivating the GOP base.
"It's the rank and file who are the problem here!" Frum exclaimed: It has hamstrung GOP leaders by preventing them from cutting deals with President Obama.
Whatever Tuesday's election result, this much is clear: The small-government movement has little to learn from Weak Tea Conservatives like Frum, whose desperate search for relevance blinds them to the facts on the ground.
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WE NEED TO SPLIT THIS REPUBLICANT PARTY UP! THERE ARE SOME OF US WITH A TRU VALUE OF CHRIST DRIVEN AGENDA. THIS COUNTRY NEEDS TO REPENT IF WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO BE GODS CHOSEN ONES WHEN THE SECOND COMING IS UPON US.
ReplyDeleteITS TIME TO BAND TOGETHER AND FORM AN ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE PARTY, LED BY PAT ROBERTSON, AND JESUS CHRIST.
JP my ears are bleeding. Please ease up on the CAPS.
ReplyDeleteJP your extremism is frightening. I am a hard core Republican but there are a few things we need to lighten up on one being stem cell research. If you think Pat Robertson should be the leader of the Republican Party then feel free to start an new party all you want. Personally I'll keep my feet on the ground. The extremists from both parties are what each side fear the most.
ReplyDeleteThe last thing we need right now is a split in the party. The libs will always vote liberal and if we split our vote, we will give them everything. BOTH parties have sold us out and I agree that we need a third party, but now is not the time. We need to stop hussien, pelosi and reid first. After November (after we have weeded out the immediate threats to our country) would be the time to try and get third party candidates ready for the 2012 election. Right now we are in the midst of an awakening on the part of American voters (as evidenced by what is going on in Massachusets). Hang on for ten more months and give the political whores a little more rope and THEN the time will be right.
ReplyDeleteI WAS BEING SUUUUPER SARCASTIC HAHAHA
ReplyDeletesorry for the caps. ;)
makin' fun of extremists. (to extremists)
for the record I'm pretty f'n far left. :D
ReplyDelete(especially compared to most of the folks on here)