Has the Tea Party Lost the One Marble It Had

Russian roulette is one thing, but going after the Speaker of the House when he’s of your own party is just plain brainless.

But, dear readers, that is just what is happening to House Speaker John Boehner, the Republican from Ohio, who will face a Tea Party opponent in the 2012 congressional GOP primary.

Why, you may well ask.

Because the Tea Party is so dim-witted that it cannot see beyond its stuffed and outsized nose.

They are angry with Boehner for not delivering more federal budget cuts.

Never mind that he out-foxed, out-negotiated and out-maneuvered President Obama and got 1.2 Trillion Dollars worth of budget cuts, without one red cent of tax increases this summer.

Never mind that he continues to out-fox, out-negotiate and out-maneuver Obama and his White House full of academics who wouldn’t know a real political move if it ran over them.

Never mind that John Boehner has put his neck and his career on the line repeatedly to save the agenda of the Tea Party.

Never mind all that.

John Boehner is to be challenged by the Tea Party because he didn’t bring in the last dime, so to speak.

So, now we know, now we have the proof, we Republicans who have labored a lifetime to protect America from the country-threatening tax-and-spend policies of the Democrat Party, that the Tea Party is not a political movement at all. It is a meat axe aimed at anyone who does not toe the line it unilaterally draws in the sand.

It is not politics.

It is not Ronald Reagan’s legacy (his 11^th commandment was “never speak ill of a fellow Republican”).  

It is not the US Constitution.

It isn’t even conservative or Christian.

It is back-alley cut-throat gang warfare.

America does not need it.

America will not benefit from it.

America will be dragged down into its morass of no-compromise government that smells like dictatorship.

And, it is time for the real GOP to stand up and be counted. We will not be brow-beaten and terrorized by a bunch of water pistol-slinging thugs who would probably have considered themselves capable of robbing banks in Kansas if they had lived during the Dalton Gang era.

The Grand Old Party can beat Obama with or without the Tea Party.

And, if that means Mitt Romney, count me in.