Tea party wisdom

The hoity-toity crowd took a look at tea party protesters this past year, told us what fools these peasants were and no doubt felt they had thereby helped diminish the menace, but look what's happening now -- widespread popularity along with all kinds of sophisticated policy analyses consonant with tea party positions. It's a good movement, say 41 percent of Americans in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that also showed just 23 percent thinking it a lousy movement. The Democrats? Some 35 percent viewed them positively, it's reported. The negative view was 45 percent. And nobody much likes Republicans -- well, 23 percent do, while 43 percent are holding their noses. In a Rasmussen poll that's likewise been receiving considerable columnist comment, it seems independent voters would go for a generic tea party candidate over both a Democrat and Republican, and here's what I think is going on -- ordinary Americans appreciating the principles and common sense of other ordinary Americans while simultaneously feeling disgusted with the corrupt radical leftism of Democrats and the betrayals of Republicans....read more