Are Republicans at Risk?

As conservatives are battling with less-than-conservatives for control of the party, the less-thans led by John McCain and Lindsey Graham are supporting liberal legislation like Cap-and-Trade and further immigration reform while talking as if they have always been conservative on all issues. They talk the talk but they don't walk the walk. John McCain now in a vitriolic primary fight might actually come out against immigration reform this time around, in an effort to protect his seat.

But disturbing as all this is, Republicans have been quick to embrace the tea party movement as their own. Maybe a little too quick? The Tea Party movement is fiercely independent, so much so that the leadership is having trying to convince the movement that they should turn into a long term fixture on the political scene. A large part of the TeaParty movement are people who want their government to give them the rights guaranteed by the Constitution but otherwise want to be left alone. Some are turning into highly qualified candidates, who without the TeaParty movement might never have sought public office, and others are becoming effective campaign volunteers. Not since the time of Barry Goldwater when hordes of libertarians stormed the GOP bastions has the Republican Party faced such upheaval. The TeaParty movement's candidate of choice-Sarah Palin. Mitt Romney may have lots of favors built up and the establishment likes a male candidate with his credentials, but the TeaParty movement sees through the political nonsense to the inner person and he is viewed as a run of the mill politician. The California TeaParty Movement overwhelmingly like Chuck DeVore for US Senate although seem a little hesitant to display their enthusiasm publicly, hopefully this will change as the election gets closer.

What is interesting to note is that Republican analysts and long-time political consultants really do not understand the implications of what is happening. They view this primary election as just one of many. What they do not understand is that because of the Marxists in the Obama administration and controlling Congress, the country has taken a violent swing in the other direction. Republicans will be beating Democrats, and conservative Republicans will be beating their less-than-conservative opponents. Democrats see this which is why they are retiring in droves. As further evidence that the Dems see it is the fact that they are now infiltrating local groups and starting TeaParty parties in at least a few states, to pull votes from Republicans. But neither infiltration nor starting phony political parties is a strateegy that seem to be working.

The best thing about Obama is that he is basically an ineffective President, imagine what he could have done by now if he had the political acumen of an LBJ, and that he and his cohorts have destroyed the Democrat party. It will take them years to recover if they ever do. The only states in which they will survive, are in places like California, where the gerrymandered districts will keep them in control for at least a couple more years.