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Published on July 20, 2010 By dan_l In Blogging

I didn't bother reading the comments, but I'm sure they're not pretty. Redstate:

Mark Williams is a complete moron for writing that piece when and how he wrote it. It surpasses the level of stupid often relegated to Ron Paul. He gave the NAACP exactly what they wanted. He allowed himself to become distracted and lashed out in emotional response.

Had Mr. Williams showed a bit of patience, he could have been writing today about real racism in the NAACP courtesy of Andrew Breitbart (h/t Ed Morrissey). Instead he blew his wad on a piece that could best be classified as a Minstrel Show.

In doing so he becomes the story and affirms the KnownFact™ that the Tea Party* is racist. I mean, just look at Mark Williams - founder of Tea Party Patriot and spokesman for Tea Party Express.

Although this unfortunate and avoidable incident will no doubt affect the Tea Party’s various national groups, I won’t weep for Mr. Williams loss anymore than I weep for a Martyr of Allah. You strap a bomb to your chest, you deal with the consequences.

It goes nicely with this bit I saw on Sullivan:

In the past, the Republican Party has always managed to hold in check the tactical radicalism of its base. It's starting to run wild. In past elections, I would have totally discounted the possibility that the party might nominate a figure like Sarah Palin, because the party establishment has always been strong enough to push aside candidates who were not strong electoral vehicles for conservatism. I'm no longer sure they have that power anymore.

To put it together, the 'real' GOP has always maintained a certain amount of control over the message. In fact, they've gotten damn good at it - blending the professional, well funded noise makers like Pat Roberton or Parsley with the booyahism of Limbaugh and Hannity. While they nursed the Tea Party from a few yammering fools to thousands of people demanding closed borders, a national holiday honoring Dale Earnhardt, and penchant for bashing a sitting president, they thought they were getting another platform echoing the message. No doubt, they were excited: not just a new platform, but the holy grail of noise making - 'grassroots'. The one thing the dems have long had in one form or another but the GOP was sorely lacking.

Instead of getting the docile and predictable idiots they had hoped for, they've got unpredictable idiots. And now everybody knows it.


Comments
on Jul 20, 2010

I really love how you try to associate the entire Tea Party from one or two people.  Very liberal of you.

on Jul 20, 2010

Really?  Where did I do that?