It’s the Tea Party, Stupid

The talking bobble heads are punditing themselves crazy, trying to figure out the phenomenon of Herman Cain. There are many similarities between how they covered the Tea Party with how they are covering him, and it is not surprising they still either don’t “get it”, or, more likely, in their fear of their own irrelevance, they don’t want to. For years, they have operated under a comfortable illusion that they, the elites, influence opinion driven by their own agenda, money, and the “politics as usual” they hypocritically pretend not to support, but really are integral parts of themselves.

They forgot about one thing- We, the People, the sleeping giant, finally awakened as the abuses mounted of our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor and decided to take back our country. The Tea Party is truly a grassroots phenomenon, and coalesced spontaneously like a fire lit by a lightening bolt from the hand of God, and is burning and spreading and glowing like embers quietly throughout the body politic even when it appears to be quenched into quietude. They do not realize it is indeed most dangerous to their agenda when quiet, used as they are to astroturfed ginned up political movements meant to challenge it like OWS.

They first tried to ignore the Tea Party, underestimating its numbers at demonstrations if they covered them at all, snidely dismissing it as inconsequential if not a bit goofy. When it grew and grew into a phenomenon so large it could not be ignored, and Tea Party activists began to actively challenge the status quo at raucous town halls of establishment politicians, the demonizing knives came out by both the media and the establishment. The Tea Party was characterized as “extreme”, potentially violent and dangerous, terrorists, even, ignorant, drooling gun-toting redneck uneducated anomalies surely not supported by “mainstream” people. And, worst of all, EVERYONE knew, the Tea Party was the ultimate slur, RAAAAACCCIST!

When the requisite violent racist excesses failed to materialize, the media made them up, then repeated them ad infinitum over and over despite no proof existing whatsoever of the spitting incident, name-calling, etc. they were accusing the Tea Party of doing. And they also claimed organization was behind the Tea Party, a conspiracy of Koch Brothers money and manipulation. They could not believe the competence, order and organizational skills of the ordinary Tea Party individual volunteers could possibly produce such large, organized, clean and well-planned widespread events without an Invisible Hand orchestrating behind the scenes.

Obviously, the Talking Heads had never participated in a PTA organized Halloween Carnival, Church Supper, or local charity event these people had honed their organizational skills on quietly for years as unpaid, local volunteers, or running small businesses doing everything from waiting on customers to cleaning the john while carpooling three children to various activities. They could simply not know, from their life experience, how much We the People are used to doing on a daily basis, and that we don’t need the Koch Brothers to be masters of organization.

So, now we have Herman Cain, the one guy in the race who DOESN”T care about race but about winning The Race to take back America, and has shared our experiences and challenges from the grassroots up. He has tapped into the real power that is the Tea Party, and this is the real power in the upcoming election.

There was a strong hint of the surprising power of the Tea Party in the last election, and while the talking heads are telling themselves the Romney lie and trying to convince us all Cain is just a flash in the pizza pan, Cain may be laughing all the way to the bank. The Tea Party is the real wind beneath the wings of this election, and so far Cain is being lifted on the wings of those ordinary moms and pops who coach little league teams, work at real private sector jobs, and bake the cookies for the Girl Scout meetings. They have not realized yet there are more of us than they anticipate, we are stronger than they know, and while we don’t beat drums in Zuccoti Park, our hearts beat more strongly for America and it is we who are, in the final analysis, raising Cain!