Now Is The Time Republicans to Ask the Tea Baggers to Leave

It is growing ever more apparent that it is time for the mainstream Republican Party to grow a pair and ask the right wing fanatics that joined the GOP for no reason other than to ride the coat-tails of credibility, to...well...exit. The Republican leaders are at the perfect junction to tell these folks to hit the bricks without losing much at the polls. In fact, it would undoubtedly be to the GOP's benefit three plus years from now.

I can't remember exactly when it was that any right wing flaky fanatical wing nut could label him/her self a Republican and put themselves on a ballot as being legitimate, but it happened. The Republican leadership allowed these folks to jump on the bandwagon, but it rapidly became apparent that might not have been the best course of action. They wanted a win more than they wanted to worry about who the winners were. And now that selfish choice is coming back to haunt them.

According to Tim Dickinson's insightful article in the March 28, 2013 Rolling Stone, although the GOP is trying hard to market themselves as "colorblind", and not "anti-government", the truth is becoming painfully more apparent, and in my opinion it is being primarily fueled by the right-wing fringe of the Party. Some Repubs are rethinking gay marriage, and some are even talking friendlier about immigration. But don't be fooled. These Tea Party nuts will never leave their perceived reactionary safety net.

I soon will write an open letter to John Boeghner begging him to dredge up some intestinal fortitude and kick these Tea Party bastards out into the street. It is early in the cycle and now is the time. All the initial hysteria will be gone from the fickle American public's mind by the 2014 elections, and most certainly in 2016. Let the Tea Party form their own party. It will be the joke of everyone.

The Republican Party has been held hostage long enough. The thing that gave the Tea Party any leverage at all is the GOP belief that if the Tea Party were to go solo, they would steal votes from the GOP thereby ensuring Democratic victories. If they move now that won't be true. The real Republicans have never bought into this dog and pony show. Let there be all the headlines and flurry of news activity. In two weeks the Tea Party will have the credibility legs of Pat Paulsen's Stag Party.

More to follow.........

I Predicted This to Friends...

As I predicted to friends after all the talk about gun control fired up after Newtown, it will be a dog and pony show for awhile, and then everything will pretty much go back to normal.

Whatever normal in this crazy world is.

So far, banning any assault weapons is off the table, banning high capacity clips is off the table, and extended background checks have developed a serious cough. This is a good thing. These would have all disgusted our Founding Fathers, who, for all their faults, were brilliant guys in my estimation.

The President, who I love, is slightly misguided in his attempts to be the President of everybody all the time. I applaud his efforts, but he recently made a statement about the rise in poll numbers of people who fear the government. He made a statement - "The government is us. We elect these people." With all due respect, not necessarily Mr. President. I did not elect one single police officer in my town. I didn't get to elect the city manager who hired all the "public safety" officers. I didn't elect any of the folks in our military. These are the folks our Founding Fathers wanted us to be willing and ABLE to take on.

I strongly believe our Founding Fathers of course could not envision where the technology of weaponry would take us, but wherever it goes, they expected us, as good citizens, to keep up.

We should never, ever, ever settle for less than what the cops have. Ever.