By Mr. Curmudgeon
“Moderation in the pursuit of justice,” said Barry Goldwater “is no virtue.” Moderate Indiana Democrat, Evan Bayh, announced he will not seek a third term as Indian’s representative in the U.S. Senate. “There is too much partisanship and not enough progress — too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem-solving. Even at a time of enormous challenge, the people’s business is not being done.” That sounds eerily like Sen. John McCain’s losing 2008 campaign mantra. As President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attempt to transform the United States into an impoverished leftist banana republic, moderates of both parties have become irrelevant. Instead of rallying around those who wish to accommodate Obama and his Czars, the nation’s independents are rallying around the Tea Party, which calls for Washington to obey the Constitution’s extreme restraint on government power. “Extremism in the defense of liberty,” as Goldwater once said, “is no vice.”
Even the New York Times is starting to notice the shift in the country’s mood. Times reporter By David Barstow interviewed Pam Stout, a retired federal worker who “awoke to see Washington as a threat, a place where crisis is manipulated – even manufactured – by both parties to grab power,” writes Barstow.
According to the Times:
“The Tea Party movement has become a platform for conservative populist discontent, a force in Republican politics for revival, as it was in the Massachusetts Senate election, or for division. But it is also about the profound private transformation of people like Mrs. Stout, people who not long ago were not especially interested in politics, yet now say they are bracing for tyranny.
“…Loose alliances like Friends for Liberty are popping up in many cities, forming hybrid entities of Tea Parties…These coalitions are not content with simply making the Republican Party more conservative. They have a larger goal — a political reordering that would drastically shrink the federal government and sweep away not just Mr. Obama, but much of the Republican establishment, starting with Senator John McCain.”
Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele is holding meetings with Tea Party activists, hoping to form an alliance to help his party’s electoral prospects in 2010. But he might get an ear full. According to Fox News, “…One Tea Party activist who traveled hundreds of miles to attend the meeting at RNC headquarters in Washington, D.C., said sparks could fly. ‘Steele wants to try to co-opt us, but we're coming to tell him he doesn't get it. We want to return the Republican Party to its roots. We're expecting some fireworks.’”
The revolution has started. Not among status quo politicians but in the hearts and minds of the nation’s centrist majority frightened by Obama’s unrelenting attempts to push the country hard left. In this revolution, there is no room for bloodless moderates offering “practical problem-solving.” Their problem solving helped get us in the mess we now find ourselves. Bye-bye Evan Bayh.
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