As relates to the TEA Party movement:
Opportunities like this come along once in a political lifetime. Instead of worrying about Whole Foods, the Tea Party leadership should be figuring out how to channel this tidal shift in American public opinion into concrete results in next year’s congressional elections.
Being nonpartisan, the Tea Party movement must identify and encourage like-minded candidates in both major parties. That means a Tea Party Movement Seal of Approval, or a Tea Party Pledge, to point voters of all stripes to the new blood needed to replace the current calcified cast of establishment insiders running Congress.
No, that would straight-jacket the movement. It would turn it in to just another special interest the politicians will placate. What the TEA Party movement is all about, if anything, is anger over the status quo. It is for independent-minded Republicans and Democrats to demonstrate – by word and deed – that they are not part of the corrupt power structure but are, indeed, determined to bring it down; then the TEA Party support will be automatic.
Republicans will benefit from this more than Democrats – partially because we’re the out party, mostly because we’re more ideologically in tune with the TEA Party than most Democrats. But smart Democrats can also ride this wave of anti-establishment anger – indeed, even ultra liberals can garner at least some TEA Party support, if they just become part of the solution to big government problems, as opposed to being part of the problem (as almost all liberals are). This is a revolutionary wave – whomever catches it, will win.
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