With respect, I appreciate your attempt to get some dialogue going on this, but your reasoning is flawed for two reasons:
1) It's based on the premise that both groups have equal reaswon to be wary of eachother and so, both, should reach out equally. This ignores the eight years before Obama was president.
Time and again, the GOP leadership voted for larger government, more regulation, and introduced bills that betrayed their very electorate. It's why they got kicked out of power. The Tea Partiers have yet to double cross the GOP leadership. Accordingly, it rightfully should be the GOP leadership that makes the first moves.
2) This is sort of an extention of 1). The two examples you cited as one group stepping on the other...

..come on over GOP.

A Tea Partiers are for a more responsible government living within its means, a less intrusive government, and more freedom for out people.
I'd like someone from the GOP hierarchy to explain what part of that they have a problem with?

Just because other people showed faulty judgment doesn't mean Huckabee didn't. That other people also made horrendous mistakes that helped cost people their lives unnecessarily doesn't mean Huckabee didn't.

Make that two logical fallacies. This author claims there are three failures in 1033. Actually, there are only three homocidal maniacs out of 1033. Good money says a lot of others have gone on to commit plenty of other less headline-grabbing crime.

Come to think of it, three logical fallacies. This author argues that who can guess a few out the 1033 might go bad? If you release or help release 1033 criminals, aren't odds good that a couple of them will turn out REAL bad. Does not simple mathematics say that with that...

Thank You for writing this column.

I was pretty open to Meghan McCain at first. Having someone young and "hip" who could tell other young people from her platform why the R party and concervative principles would serve them well seemed like a good thing. Alas, she has shown she doesn't have any clue about either. She says she "loves" the R party, but never seems to say anything good about it. Conservatism baffles her. The only mission she seems to be on, or want to learn more about, is promoting herself.

OK, this column isn't writing the Magna Charta or the Constitution. But with the MSM giving her undeserved attention, it's time for someone to say "Hey, she isn't here at the party with us. She invited herself, downed a...