Excerpts from Glenn Harlan Reynolds Washington Examiner column,
Tea Party dominance was inevitable — and I told you so
On April 15, 2009, as the first nationwide wave of Tea Party protests broke out, I wrote: “What’s most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven’t ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before. General disgust has drawn a lot of people off the sidelines and into the political arena, and they are already planning for political action after today….
This snippit sums up the reaction of the Boulder progressives and most importantly the local media to the Tea Party movement…
Even old-line lefties like Stanley Fish are warning Democrats (and Establishment Republicans) that their open contempt for the Tea Party movement is not only blinding them to what’s really going on, but also empowering the movement itself. Fish writes that “The Tea Party’s strength comes from the down-to-earth rhetoric it responds to and proclaims, and whenever high-brow critics heap the dirt of scorn and derision upon the party, its powers increase.” (emphasis added – Ed)
I’m sure the Boulder Daily Camera doesn’t spend any time wondering how the Tea Party movement became so powerful because they are “right” and everyone else either has the intelligence of a Neanderthal of has been blinded by Faux news. Erika and Clay especially, keep up the good work.
