Progressive: It's All About "Tactics"

From Progressive.org - by Matthew Rothschild - I have to admit it. I’m envious of Sarah Palin and the Tea Partiers. They’ve done what many progressives have said we should have done long ago: They’ve captured one of the two main political parties in this country. And they’ve done so by being outspoken and aggressive. Now I don’t share their politics at all. Not at all. I detest them. And I understand that the tea party movement was on the receiving ends of millions upon millions of dollars from the Koch brothers and other corporate interests.

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Still, I grudgingly respect their tactics. Where they saw Republicans who were too wishy-washy or too compromised, they went after them and took them down, and ran the most avowedly ideological candidates they could find. They didn’t bother offending the party establishment. They went around the establishment. And now they’re flexing their muscle and all but daring that establishment to stand in their way. As Sarah Palin said this week, "Some in the GOP -- it's their last shot. It's their last chance.” And she warned the establishment that if they don’t surrender, she can take the grassroots with her and start a third party. Read more here:

Progressive: It's All About "Tactics"