Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

The words do not have to be perfect.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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  1. 1.

    Bob L

    A single tear rolls down a socially centrist, fiscally conservative, atheist blogger’s cheek… [T]he tea party has in part simply been a way for conservative Republicans to rebrand themselves after souring on the GOP

    Considering how the Tea Party has managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in several contests that gambit paid off well for the GOP. But since the alternatives are candidates like Carolly Fiona the GOP’s options are pretty slim.

  2. 2.

    Punchy

    A link to Sullivan! How…….expected.

    This would not qualify as a diary on DKos. Just saying.

    Teatards give retards a bad name.

  3. 3.

    SpotWeld

    Stuff you will never hear noted on the Sunday talking head shows

    1) The Teapartyers are Rublicans. It’s not The TEA Party. Is a subset of the GOP.

    2) The Tea Party movement is a visible obvious case of the factionalization of the GOP. This isn’t a subgroup that want’s to be part of the big tent (Like Log Cabin Republicans).

    3) The Tea Party votes against it’s own self interest (Net Neutraility being the most obvious example)

    4) The money behind the Tea Party represents a small but powerful group of lobbiest who want to bypass the actual politicians in the GOP.

    The GOP is being made irrellevant by it’s own backers. We’re witnessing the transition.

  4. 4.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Bob L: And yet the three remaining principled conservatives will continue to vote for “Republicans.”

    At least EDK has realized he’s no longer a Modern Conservative (an oxymoron).

  5. 5.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    Based on this:

    Like Allahpundit, I wish there were a Tory party in America – socially centrist, fiscally badass. But there isn’t.

    I’d say Sullivan is the slowest learner of all. Here’s a clue: there is such a party and they are called the Democratic Party.

  9. 9.

    Joshua

    If the teabags get some victories, this is what will happen: they will flame out in predictably Gingrinchian fashion. Then all the talking heads on TV will go up there and say, of course they had no new ideas, they were peddling the same stuff the CWA-era GOP was, everyone knew that, of course they couldn’t govern just as the Bush-era Congress couldn’t govern.

    And they will all nod sagely, in awe of each other’s wisdom, right before their attention is pulled towards a new force in American politics, a group of activists and politicians pushing for smaller government, lower taxes, and less regulation!

  11. 11.

    Short Bus Bully

    Maybe the Dems should come up with some porn inspired nickname for a subset of a subset of crazies within their own party and then primary their own. Wouldn’t that just be awesome?

  12. 12.

    geg6

    @Joshua:

    This.

    And I must say that it’s all quite wearying to watch the same film clip over and over and over and over and over and over.

    For the last 40 goddam years.

  14. 14.

    geg6

    @TooManyJens:

    With Sully, it always means gutting Social Security.

    Nothing give Sully a bigger woody than gutting SS.

    ETA: Except, perhaps, the idea of John Cole with a beard. John Cole = Bear = Sully doing something Christine O’Donnell would outlaw.

  15. 15.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    @gex: What do we want? A modicum of change and improvement! When do we want it? At some point in the hopefully not too distant future!

  17. 17.

    Dennis SGMM

    Does anyone besides me remember the John Birch Society? For those who aren’t at least as old as the hills that was another far right fringe movement devoted to purifying government. Now the Birchers are, at best, a footnote – as the Tea Party will soon be.

  20. 20.

    Sentient Puddle

    @Comrade Javamanphil: Since when would anybody reasonably describe the Democratic party as “badass” about anything?

    This, of course, leaving aside the absurdity of the phrase “fiscally badass.”

  24. 24.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    @Sentient Puddle: Yes, I know. Fiscally badass is as stupid as saying Democrats are badass (now bad ass as in bad Symbol of Democratic party you could make a solid case for.) In any case, I think the point was Sullivan wants socially centrist (sadly, current Democratic party) and fiscally conservative (sadly, current Democratic party.) He just can’t bring himself to leave his tribe.

  25. 25.

    Mark S.

    socially centrist, fiscally badass.

    Which the GOP hasn’t remotely been for the past three decades, but Sully is still on the fence. I’m so glad we import all these Brits to analyze our political system.

  28. 28.

    eemom

    these teabagger=republican “revelations” keep making me think of the old joke about the caveman Ug.

    Ug: Hmm. Look like shit.
    Smell like shit.
    Taste like shit.
    Must be shit. Good thing Ug not step in it.

  31. 31.

    Zifnab

    So far the Tea Party candidates have cost Republicans a Delaware Senate seat, completely knee capped their chance at a Nevada Senate seat, turned bright red Kentucky into a horse race, changed an Alaska guarantee into an ugly three-way with the incumbent running as a write-in, turned Florida from gimme into a three-way race, publicly embarrassed McCain by forcing him to fight for his own primary, and turned the 17th Amendment into a conservative wedge issue.

    I honestly don’t see how this benefits the GOP as a whole. They cost themselves the Senate, just so DeMint becomes minority leader. And if he throws a Gingrich style government shut down hissy-fit, he’s not going to do his party any favors in 2012.

    The Tea Party has been a magnanimous blessing for the Democrats and done a lot to scare independents away from the rotting husk of the GOP. At this point, I’m a lot less scared of GOoPer Teahadists than I am of Blue Dogs and Corporate Dems. Ben Nelson and Joe Sestak have been bigger thorns in the Dem side than Tom Coburn and John Boehner.

  34. 34.

    Triassic Sands

    George W. Bush should probably be considered the Father of the Tea Party. His reign of ruin made it necessary for conservatives and Republicans to look for a way to re-brand themselves. Without Bush’s total incompetence, the GOP would probably be chugging along still devoid of ideas — except that government is bad, a woman’s body belongs to the state, and guns, as many as possible, will make everything run smoothly.

  35. 35.

    cmorenc

    What splendid irony that the advert appearing immediately below John’s initial post kicking off this thread is for “Lawson for Congress” (he’s running for North Carolina’s Fourth Congressional seat as a Libertarian against Democratic incumbent David Price). Lawson is a classic Glibertarian, albeit more in the Ron Paul mode than that of son Rand Paul. As such, he’s not quite as lethally toxic as a bona fide peak wingnut teahadist candidate, but nonetheless Ayn Rand would be proud of Lawson were she alive today.

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