Why Republicans Need the Tea Party - By David Horowitz

[DonViejo]

Why Republicans Need the Tea Party

The movement provides an answer to the Left.

By David Horowitz

Can the marriage between the Tea Party and the GOP survive?

My answer is: It better. The White House is occupied by a lifelong anti-American radical who has done more to bankrupt this nation’s economy, take us down as a military power, and destroy individual liberty than anyone would have thought possible in January 2009 when he took office. And it’s worse than that. Obama is the head of a Democratic party that has moved so far to the left over the last 46 years that it has become anti–free market, anti-individualist, anti-constitutionalist, and unready to defend America’s sovereign interests at home and abroad. We cannot afford to let such a party run our government for another four or eight years. The world cannot afford it.

So how do we hold together the conservative coalition opposing this national suicide? How do we make this marriage survive? First of all, by recognizing that the basic difference between the Tea Party and the Republican party is a matter of tactics and temperament, not policy and ideology. To understand what I mean by this, one has to go back to the flashpoint that has made the possibility of a Republican schism a topic of the day: the famous alleged government shutdown by tea-party hero Ted Cruz. I probably should acknowledge here that I am a huge fan of what the Tea Party represents, though not always what it does. I believe the emergence of the Tea Party is the most important political development in conservatism in the last 25 years, and is possibly the last best hope for our country.

The government shutdown was the alleged result of Senator Cruz’s filibuster of a continuing resolution to fund the government. In fact, the House had passed a resolution to fund the government but not Obamacare. In the Senate, however, Majority Leader Harry Reid stripped the Obamacare-funding ban from the bill. Cruz conducted a one-man filibuster to express his opposition, both to Reid and to the Republicans who voted to fund Obamacare rather than join him. And so Republicans attacked each other instead of the real culprits.

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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/372007/why-republicans-need-tea-party-david-horowitz

[Fawke Em]

1. Please proceed, David...

The more the American people get a load of the Tea Party, the easier it is to elect Democrats in Republican-controlled gerrymandered districts.

[KatyMan]

2. "a Democratic party that has moved so far to the left over the last 46 years..."

seriously, what planet do these people live on? You see this kind of hyperbole all the time, but sometimes it just sticks out and you have to say wtf? Imagine if we had journalists in this country...

[CJCRANE]

6. I thought it was satire at first glance! nt

[JHB]

18. They would do what they do now: Ignore any journalists...

...who don't reinforce their worldview. "The Liberal Media", you know.

[Mz Pip]

3. King David

King of hyperbole.

National suicide? Get a grip.

[Coyotl]

4. Why post this on DU?

[CanonRay]

7. Demonstrates what we're up against

They are so far right, they think we've moved left.

[Coyotl]

12. We already know that all too well.

Why support writers such as this? Best to ignore them instead of sending them readers.

[Jackpine Radical]

13. Well, for one thing, I wouldn't have seen this particular piece

of supreme idiocy had it not been posted here, since I never bother with the Nat Review, and I was rather interested to see what sort of offal the trolls are eating at their home table these days. The excerpt was enough--I didn't feel any urge to give the NatRev a click.

Sorta like rubbernecking as you navigate around an ongoing catastrophe, I guess.

[CJCRANE]

5. I thought this was satire at first..but that would be by Borowitz not Horowitz!

[Jackpine Radical]

14. Poe's Law with a vengeance.

[daleanime]

8. ........

[Nika]

9. Talk about a piece far removed from reality.

I'm not sure what planet David Horowitz is from, he has to know he is lying. If not he is loony bin material.

[oldandhappy]

10. Keep them. Be my guest.

The t-folk have hauled this country so far to the right that even the current president looks very Republican in a historical sense. You keep the t-folk and I will keep my ethics.

[C_U_L8R]

11. This zit is about to pop

I just don't think the GOP can sustain this bullshit for much longer.

[JHB]

15. So much spittle-fleck, but it's all delusional. Do I need a towel?

"We cannot afford to let such a party run our government for another four or eight years. The world cannot afford it."

You know who can afford it? David Horowitz, professional radical. Without the hyperbole cranked up to 12 he doesn't have anything, and then he might have to get off Wingnut Welfare.

[GeorgeGist]

16. I thought that gasbag was dead.

[demwing]

17. Are these delusions, or just lies?

I honestly can't tell anymore...

[Sarah Ibarruri]

19. "how to defeat the socialist party that now controls our government..."

What on earth is this man spewing about? He either knows this is pure BS and is simply evil, or he has no idea, in which case he's living in a fantasy world, and is dangerous.