I see my national crusade to get bloggers, and maybe the media, to accurately define tea baggers as Republican is slowly making gains.
Matt Yglesias, who I disagree with about half the time but nonetheless is an influential Democratic blogger, almost succeeds in his depiction of how conservatives, Republicans and tea baggers substitute words like "freedom" for orthodox conservatism. In other words, freedom is something only conservatives can advance via the GOP. Everything else via any other means isn't "freedom." Yet Matt leaves out one last sentence to what would otherwise be a very compelling post. He should add: "And that's because they're Republican," to the end of the last paragraph and I could claim success. Freedom is, after all, just another word for nothing left to lose.
