The Tea Party is Now the Establishment

The tea party is now the establishment... and it isn’t working well. The folks who make up the tea party have felt like they were being neglected, ignored, and marginalized. So they embraced candidates who were going up against the “establishment” candidates. And they were vicious in their attacks on the establishment candidates. These campaigns got ugly. Mike Castle and Lisa Murkowski, among others, were a bunch of bleeping RINOs! They’re no better than Democrats! They’re gay! They break into houses! This was a search and destroy the enemy/take no prisoners campaign. Get out. Go away. We don’t want you.

That’s not unusual in a political campaign.

Except they didn’t notice they were doing this to Republicans. In their effort to drum all the RINOs out of the Republican Party the tea party is shocked they’ve... drummed all the RINOs out of the Republican Party. Now that they’ve been successful they’re now the establishment. They’re now asking the RINOs to vote for their candidates. And when the RINOs express that they’re not happy about embracing people who treat them as if they’re lower than crap, the tea party people hit them again telling them they’re sore losers and big babies.

And it isn’t just the RINOs they’re going after. Hugh Hewitt, Karl Rove, and Charles Krauthammer are now the enemy. Don’t treat them like crap. As I was writing this I decided to look at a few other websites. Apparently David Frum feels this too. Mike Castle won’t endorse Christine O’Donnell and won’t endorse Chris Coons either. He’s a Democrat. You don’t endorse Democrats. I can’t think of a reason, however, for him to endorse O’Donnell other than loyalty to a party that just told him to go F himself.

The tea party has won. They’re the establishment now. Good luck winning elections without RINOs.