This will be pretty short, but I didn't see anyone else diary it, so...
Tea Party members are primarily “freaked out white men” who pose the greatest political threat to Democrats in 2012, according to banking analyst Meredith Whitney.
“Call it Tea Party, whatever you will..., the fringe element is I characterize (as) freaked-out white men who are unemployed and have been unemployed for three years and they’re scared to death,” she said. “Three to four million of them are about to roll off unemployment benefits in the next three to four months. This is only going to get worse. ”
I don't want to quote too much from the CNBC article - click through and read it yourself - but I love this quote:
“If you are a Machiavellian Democrat you want do deal with this issue and defuse the Tea Party as fast as you possibly can because this poses the biggest threat to their re-election in 2012.”
Machiavellian Democrats. That's what we need. I'm as bummed as the next professional leftist... but it's time to close ranks and be smart about this.