Pass the popcorn. The Democrats' biggest assist in 2010 looks like it will come from the GOP.
http://news.yahoo.com/...
In what could be a nightmare scenario for Republican Party officials, conservative activists are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010.
Conservatives and tea party activists had already set their sights on some of the GOP’s top Senate recruits — a list that includes Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida, former Rep. Rob Simmons in Connecticut and Rep. Mark Kirk in Illinois, among others.
Bring it, you Godforsaken loonies. Channel your internal Dick Armey:
more
"I would say it’s the tip of the spear," said Dick Armey, the former GOP House majority leader who now serves as chairman of FreedomWorks, an organization that has been closely aligned with the tea party movement. "We are the biggest source of energy in American politics today."
You've earned it, Dick. The entire country knows you and the teabaggers and can make its judgments accordingly. And the really beautiful thing--(Here's the kicker, Dick!) is that your "baggers" make such excellent campaign ad and fundraising fodder, the checks to the DNC just write themselves. Thanks for burnishing the Democratic Party's image as the model of sobriety and serious, moderate, political thought.
Now some in your party may be raising red flags. Those people are traitors, and they're wrong. They're RINO's, not true Republicans. Just look at this backstabber:
Party strategists worry that well-funded, well-organized challenges from the right could force Republicans to exhaust precious resources on messy primary fights — or force moderate candidates to adopt more strident positions early on that could haunt them during the final months of the campaign.
"For me, what this says is, we need to take a deep breath and decide whether [moderates and conservatives] work together or not," said Tom Davis, the former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. "And if we don’t, it can get very, very ugly."
What would Sarah Palin think? Well, Hell, you can ask her. Go ahead, drop her a note, Tom.
"It’s kind of like investors in a company saying they’re not going to tolerate it anymore. And that’s what we’re seeing here," said Eric Odom, executive director of the American Liberty Alliance, a libertarian-oriented group. "We’re already gearing up. This is just the beginning."
God how I loves me some John Galt. It makes me all tingly inside.
So Remember that Tree of Liberty, GOP. You know, the one that needs watering? Well, there's nothing more insidious or a threat to freedom than a GOP moderate. They rot the Tree of Liberty from the inside. A Rotten Tree cannot stand.
You know what to do. So, get cracking.