Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson lifts veil on Establishment GOP's Stockholm Syndrome

In what was clearly intended to be a snarky, hip rebuke of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Tea Party supporters, and other limited government advocates, the Washington Post's domesticated, in-house “conservative” Michael Gerson inadvertently exposed his true colors. By so doing, he articulated the gaping divide in the Republican ranks.  After a string of juvenile insults of various leaders of the limited government movement, Gerson bottom lined it, approvingly quoting from a recent National Affairs piece by Phillip Wallach and Justus Myers:  Tea Partiers and other limited government advocates "seek to break with the past in a very different manner – repudiating 80 years of institutional development and reinventing American[sic] as a nation that rejects the substantive role for regulation or a social safety net.”

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Romney May Be the End of the Line for the Republican Establishment

September 21, 2012: A Commentary by Scott Rasmussen - Mitt Romney's comments about 47 percent of Americans being dependent on government and locked in to vote for President Obama highlight a fundamental reality in American politics today: The gap between the American people and the political class is bigger than the gap between Republicans and Democrats in Washington, D.C. Read more at Rasmussen's Reports...

Added 9/24 - Also read: 'Before the Rooster Crows' at Red State by Eric Erickson Read More......

Stop Mocking the Tea Party

THE DAILY BEAST, 9/17/2010 by Kristen Powers - The media doesn’t get it, says Kirsten Powers. The Tea Party crowd is about to radically reshape the Republican Party on a scale not seen since Barry Goldwater in the 1960s.

It’s time to stop mocking the Tea Party. ∴ Whether they are loons, principled conservatives, or a mix of both, they are a potent force that won’t be intimidated off the national stage by snarky media coverage and clueless attacks from the establishment. Read more at The Daily Beast...

Note: Goldwater conservatism led to Reagan conservatism. --bc Read More......