Megan McCain rightfully calls the Republican Tea Bagger call for literacy tests "innate racism." She is right. I have some fundamental disagreements with Megan on a few levels but this is one I soundly agree with. She goes on to say that young people are turned off by the "movement" because of the racism and its backward looking agenda.
Where I'm going to step aside and probably get people like Megan to disagree with me is I'm going to call it like it is. This is the Republican Party, not some private group. The crazy people showing up and supporting this sort of stuff are without a doubt Republicans.
I don't know what else you can call something that has as its keynote the former Republican VP candidate and current member of the GOP other than Republican. Moreover, every speaker or breakout group presenter was either a member of the GOP or an employee of Fox News. Pretend all day long that it's an independent group but I seriously doubt that if Al Gore, as a contender for the 2012 presidency, held a convention where 99% of the attendees were Democrats, we would be discussing its relationship to the national party.
No other political party in America gets to walk such an enjoyable path between its mainstream and its crazy. Whenever one of its members says something crazy, like how we should re-implement Jim Crow literacy tests, the GOP gets to say oh no, that's not us that's the tea party. Bull crap! Such reasoning leaves everyone totally ignoring the fact that so-called tea party candidates are running on the GOP ticket all over the country. It also ignores the fact that their faction is financed by Republican PAC money. Whenever and if ever a so-called tea party candidate wins an election, it's the GOP that picks up the seat, not the tea party. It is entirely Republican, top to bottom, bought and paid for.
All this is, in every way, shape and form, is a way for Republicans to go around the country calling the president a socialistfascist enemy of the state and take no responsibility for it whatsoever. And the media lets it happen. They even go out of their way to help make the distinction between GOP and tea bagger. This is the same media that enabled 8 years of George Bush and these are the very same people that voted twice for Bush and who-- without a doubt-- would have called anyone doing what they are doing now anti-Americanism.
Just like Megan McCain is a Republican so are the tea baggers she disagrees with. It's an intra-party squabble It's a complete disagreement by its members on what direction to take the GOP. No one seems to question Megan's affiliation to the GOP so why are people who are in every aspect the same as her not Republicans?
