Why I Like the Tea Party
Though I would like to claim to have been this insightful, I owe most of this insight to the weekly commentary of Mark Shields and David Brooks on the PBS Newshour, especially Mark Shields. I think most observers can agree that the Tea Party (while maintaning amazingly high favorable ratings in the polls) are dangerously far right. It is this extremism that appears to be most benefiting the Democrats from what could be a disastrous mid-term election cycle. Already the Tea Party has influenced the nomination of extreme Republican candidates that have virtually no chance in a general election. The most striking example being Deleware where a popular Republican shoe-in for the general election was defeated by a Tea Party backed candidate who 'could not be elected dogcatcher' in the words of the Republican Party Chairman for Deleware. From what I have heard of the now Republican candidate for U.S. Senator and her strange views, this appears to be true. However, as commenta