It was a mere four years ago that the Republican Party governed -- and I assure you I employ the word "govern" reluctantly -- every level of federal government. Few experts construed this to mean that the Democratic Party was forever irrelevant or a rotting cadaver.
What were the future apparatchiks up to as Republicans were busy breaking every promise, crime and piggy bank they could get their paws on?
Well, they did what all enlightened individuals should do: They found themselves. They started blogging. Getting angry. Raising money. Marching. Caring. They began purging impostors and crafting catchy platitudes that the non-ideological voter could digest.
Today a comparable spontaneous grass-roots effort has materialized. This one celebrates free market principles rather than statism. Not surprisingly, there is also a sudden shift in perception. The once-glorified citizen activist is now nothing more than a radical slack-jawed proletariat yokel.
The "tea parties" are ridiculed -- the participants demeaned and falsely portrayed as venomous radicals. As we all know by now, deniers of hope and change, by definition, are extremists.
Hey, times change. You have to grow up. Now that longtime liberal Sen. Arlen Specter has defected from the Republican Party, lots of smart people are imploring conservatives to stop scaring away innocent moderates.
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