I wonder whether some of the Republicans who are loudly supportive of Tea Party Doug Hoffmanism are starting to think twice. Primary challenges against House Republicans are popping up right and far right.
Canyon Clowdus thinks Americans "have less freedom and pay more taxes than ever."
And what's his solution?
"We need more John Wayne and Jesus in Washington," the Marble Falls rancher and businessman declares.
John Wayne and Jesus. Those fit together so well. It is hard to think of a greater example of the fundamental confusion that grips the right wing than that.
What does this sound like? John Wayne is the war, and Jesus is the holy. Holy war.
So in order to bring about holy war in defense of freedom and against all taxes, what better way than to primary the 24th most Conservative member of the House?
Clowdus is just the kind of grass-roots activist that national Republican leaders sought to fire up in the Tea Party movement that has spread across Texas in energetic rallies and heated town hall confrontations. Now, the 40-year-old Army veteran is seeking to unseat an incumbent congressman whom he calls a profligate spender.
Just one problem: Clowdus, an avid Tea Party loyalist, is running in the Republican primary against a Republican incumbent, Rep. Mike Conaway of Midland.
The far right is finished with just Scozzafavaing anyone remotely moderate. No one not substantially to the right of Attila the Hun is safe from the purge. This is, again, a holy war to the Teabaggers. The GOP has unleashed a force that it cannot control, which cannot be reasoned with, and which is turning on them like a wild animal just released from its cage.
Mr. Clowdus has a website.
And a blog chock full of wingnuttery.
Here's to many Scozzafavaed Republicans.