This is going to be short and sweet.
Tea party activists have been motivated and organized by K street lobbyists, the NRCC, right wing punditry, and hate radio to attend and disrupt in-district congressional "town halls" with fairly simple time tested tactics well known to even greenhorn political agitators/organizers.
It's as clear as a bone dry Rocky Mountain sky that the RW operatives behind this campaign aren't using especially innovative organizing techniques. There is nothing cutting edge about the way these agitations have been planned or executed. This is really simple stuff bolted on to the festering anger of a rump RW that is pissed off about losing an election to a black man and still harboring a bottomless grudge against the vast left wing conspiracy who with the help of the MSM, and according to their own twisted version of history, planned and orchestrated the 8 year slow motion political assassination of GWB and the Republican Party.
I'm serious.
Beyond the racism ...
Beyond the paranoia ...
Beyond the ideological warfare ...
This is about BIGTIME POLITICAL PAYBACK plain and simple.
The RW beleives it was our attack machine that killed GWB's popularity and Turd Blossom's permanent republican majority.
And in a way they are right.
We used the incredible operational fuckups and hubris (see Katrina, Iraq, Housing Bubble, Abramoff, Duke Cunningham), beyond the pale constitutional overreach (see U.S. Attorney Firings, Guantanamo Bay, Warrantless Wiretaps, Indefinite Detention, Rendition), and boundless ineptitude fueled by a fusion of politics to fundamentalist theology (see Terri Schiavo, Santorum, Foley, Reed, et al) to skewer Bushco to the proverbial wall and help drive his approval numbers into the low 20's.
Did we have help? Hell yes. We could not have won such strong victories in '06 and '08 without the republicans.
But did we also go out of our way to make Republicans look bad? That would be a big 10-4.
So then finally to my point. We have to stop reporting and worrying about how the RW is running their campaign and do something to counteract the juice they have got going.
It's time to take off the gloves and get into strategic organization mode. That means stepping away from your computer and getting your ass down to the Town Hall meetings.
Now is time to put up a show of force and make your presence felt in support of a PUBLIC OPTION at the very minimum.
It's time to get active again folks.