Posted by
VBushmills on Saturday, January 30, 2010 9:36:44 AM
co-posted on RedState.com/VASSAR
I have a little Red Star and cap and from time to time I put it on, so I can read a stream from the point of view of the Enemy.
About Sarah Palin, I agree with EE. Right now she is an asset to
conservatism and its purposes. That she may be an asset to the
Republican Party has yet to be revealed. She will reveal herself in due
course, so speculations now as to what she might do or should do is
uninteresting to me.
The Enemy sees her as Bad News Incarnate, and that is a Good Thing.
If she, or the Tea Party Movement strikes out as a third party, then
they will see that as a Good Thing, in fact, a major victory, a major
threat vanquished.
About the Tea Party Movement: from the very beginning we here (and
I’m sure others) picked up vibes of a lot of private agendas by
sponsors with money, organizers and self-appointed leaders. We saw
millionaires reaching out to those same concerned citizens that have
come to be known as the heart and soul of the Tea Party movement, and
for that matter, America, as the Founders envisioned it.
Many envisioned a movement with themselves at the head of it. Call
it vanity, call it the natural response of a person who pulled himself
up by the boot straps and made $10 million, so now says to himself “I
can lead.”
I can’t get into the hearts of those leaders. Some are as true blue
as Job. Some are misquided, and some are out and out in it for their
own vanities. Hell, do the math. In a city my size, there are at least
a dozen, the Tea Party group sort of umbrella’ing the others. They have
individual events where only 8-10 show up, and larger events where a
few hundred turn out…and here in VA, there is nothing going on
politically. They’re just staying active. This is also a Good Thing,
and this the Enemy sees with disdain and fear.
From the beginning RedState has pushed a pursuit of local agenda,
and participation, in part, because those are things that keep them
active, involved, and “continue their education”, and establish a
conservative base at the grass roots, while national or statewide
politics are still out there in the future. This the Enemy also sees
with fear.
The hope we (my group, but also RedState, I think) had is that by
primary time 2010 most of these groups would have melded into hopefully
one, but possibly 2, more defined groups, on a state or congressional
district level. Since people tend to go with what appears to be
winners, this a natural tendency. This is populism turning orderly, on
its own accord. This the Enemy sees with even more fear.
But for this to happen (again, do the math) we also know there has
to be some bruised vanities along the way, even in twelve short months.
Some guys have already taken their balls and gone home…and some have
set up sniping and the petty kind of back-biting that naturally occurs
in office promotions. Some are not willing to take one for the team
because, in their heart of hearts, they never were really in it for the
team. We all see this all the time, only in different contexts. In this
the Enemy finds Hope.
SO, with my Red Star cap on, I’m seeing these things unfold in a
different way. For one, the Tea Party Movement was “unplanned” for and
caught the Enemy unawares, and therefore has been able to create an
energy they can no longer nip in the bud. But now, a year later, they
are “planned for” and the first order of business is to sow discord
among what the Enemy sees are natural divisions and fault lines in the
movement as I just described above, with the ultimate purpose of
spinning off into a Third Party, or simply causing thousands once
again, as they did in ‘06 and ‘08, to stay home.
Never forget the Lawyer’s Prayer: Lord, I beseech You to stir up
strife among these Thy children so that this Thy servant shall not
perish. Amen.
(That many in the GOP may be praying this prayer as well I find a Bad Thing indeed.)
The Enemy is simply watching and practicing the fine arts of the world’s second oldest profession.
Keep this in mind, as you split the finer hairs of Sarah’s new doo.