MM-#11

Tea Party advocates are voting their people into several major races throughout the country. Like most people, I'm surprised yet interested in what this all means. Main stream Republicans are the ones who are squirming the most. Putting a right-wing conservative on the ballot under R must be excruciating for some of them. The pundits wonder where the moderates have gone. In the meantime, the Tea Party is riding a wave of discontent railing against incumbents. It's all fun to watch, from my liberal bird's eye view. The Republicans won't admit it but they are terrified of their grassroots Tea Party people. It looks like the party will have to make some concession changes to accommodate the new no-nonsense crowd. I wouldn't want to be a Republican right now. On the Tea Party side, you have all sorts of disgruntled, discontented, anti-government religious, sometime bigoted people. The Republicans have had a very narrow tent, but this group will open up their party.

As far as the rest of us are concerned, our most challenging assignment in the mid-term elections, is to reinforce the true Democratic Party principals. Saving social security, stimulus to goose the economy, health care where you can't be denied coverage among other things, and a move into cleaner energy with new jobs in that sector. The trouble with the right and far right is that there is no movement for compromise. This is why they will fail. We've seen what lack of compromise in the Congress brought. A Republican party built on NO. Interestingly enough, the Tea Party is saying NO to the Republican party. This is going to be an interesting November.