What John Cole Said

The Village understands the Tea Party perfectly.  They just refuse to say so.  John Cole on the Teabaggers:

They weren’t around protesting during the Bush years BECAUSE THE TEA PARTY IS REPUBLICANS. They don’t care about the deficit. They care that a Democrat (and a black “Muslim,” to boot), is in the White House. They don’t care about fiscal restraint, they care that a Democrat is in the White House. They don’t, as some foolishly pretend, care about the Wall Street excesses. Certainly Cenk Uyger is not the only one who has noticed that the tea party bubbas could all be shipped to protest HCR, but the big money boys aren’t running the buses to protest Wall Street. They care that there is a Democrat in the White House.

And those crowds of angry white old people screaming “keep government out of my medicare” and waving signs of “Drill, baby, drill?” They sure as hell don’t care about the environment and are not going to become some sort of “Green Tea Party.”

All they care about is that there is a Democrat in the White House.

Ding ding ding!  And the best part is on an instinctual level, even the Village is smart enough to understand that the Tea Party guys have been here since Reagan.  They just get angry when there's a Democrat.  They hate Dems.  It doesn't matter what the Democrat actually does, they hate him.  The last one got impeached.  This one, should the Republicans ever regain the House, will certainly get impeached.

Government is only evil if a Democrat is in charge, otherwise is it above reproach, above fact, above argument, above debate, and anyone who says otherwise clearly hates America.

The Village knows this.  They're just not going to pick a fight with the GOP and be branded traitors.  And to a Teabagger, all Democrats are traitors.