Your Politics Are Boring

I’m so sick of hearing about the “tea party” movement. It’s completely non-cohesive, totally unorganized, and full of just enough (I know, not the majority) crackpots, birthers, closet racists, and regular ol’ ignorant people to discredit the whole “movement” (which as far as I can tell doesn’t know what it wants other than lower taxes).

It was a nice dream while it was alive, to actually have a genuine grassroots movement, wasn’t it? To have a large group of people who were incensed with both parties, but who actually had a cohesive strategy and a unified response to the establishment? Alas, the whole tea party fiesta has been nothing but noise, with nails being driven into its coffin by Fox News who, following the strategy I predicted in this article, has hijacked whatever agenda existed in an attempt to revamp the partisanship of the whole affair. It’s hopeless.

But now…now you want Sarah Palin to be the face of your ideas? The woman who is perhaps the least-unifying and easiest target of the media and liberal/libertarian voices (and deservedly so?) Why don’t you just dig up Nixon and put him behind the podium?

The “tea party movement” is not independent. It is conservative populism, and it’s falling into the same trap as the flock of Obama-worshippers:

“We don’t need Sarah Palin to be the face of our movement,” [Tea Party Convention attendee] Tomasik said. “We don’t need Newt Gingrich or any of these other people, because these people are humans and they can fail. Our values will never fail us as long as we adhere to them.”

Don’t tell that to Nancy Bunting, a Hilton Head Island, S.C. retiree who attended the convention with her husband Bob Bunting.

“Sarah Palin is a leader” of the movement, she said, adding “she’s part of the reason why we’re here.”

Yes, there was a Tea Party Convention, held in a hotel banquet room for an entry fee of $550, with much-criticized “top-down organizational structure,” and a $100,000 speaking fee paid directly to…Sarah Palin. Does that sound like grassroots to you? To me it sounds no different than Al Gore getting a bunch of true believers together and walking away with hundreds of thousands of dollars to preach to the ever-loving choir.

UPDATE: Some more headlines proving my point:

Palin urges Republican Party to ‘absorb’ Tea Party movement

Palin: Let’s Merge The Tea Party And GOP

Yeah. Grassroots, hm?