Before continuing with part two (see yesterday’s “Freedomworks’ Little Frankenstein Lab: Oregon“), I’d like to offer a little intermission entertainment, something to think about or explore on your own before the beginning of Act II of our little drayma [sic] in surreal life …
Our successful free market lassaiz faire capitalists
Remember that Freedomworks is a major sponsor of the tea party movement. 
Because this email went out from the affiliated NEW American Liberty Alliance on Halloween morning (talk about unmasking):]
from: American Liberty Alliance
Date: Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:36 AMDede drops out of race!!!
BREAKING: 73wire.com!
In a surprise move, liberal Republican candidate for the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, has completely dropped out of the race.
As you know, 73wire.com, our project to get the Tea Party Movement into major coverage of the political battle, has been all over this race.
Earlier this week, we broke news of the NRCC’s involvement in the race (by putting ground troops in play). Then, yesterday we broke the story about the NRCC closing up shop and completely backing out of the race.
A few minutes later, we broke the story of the Dede drop out.
The Tea Party Movement Candidate
This news paves the way for Doug Hoffman to ride to a win in NY23. And this wouldn’t be possible without the movement.Now we just need to take Bill Owens, the liberal Democrat out of the race on election night next week, and the movement will be able to claim a major victory over the establishment.
This is what we’re all about!
For Liberty,
-Eric Odom
If you’d like to know how Eric Odom is connected to Freedomworks, take a look here. But, before we get lost in the forest of details, let me lay out my “thesis,” which is this:
A group of angry men walked out of the 1984 Libertarian Party convention and they’ve been at work, ever since, moving slowly into the Republican party. This year, noticing the fractured party after the McCain debacle, they are making their move at taking over the Republican party.
Don’t believe me? Good. Stay skeptical. Look a little more deeply. But here’s some trails …
They came within seven votes of winning the GOP chairmanship earlier this year.
They have been sponsoring the “Tea Party” movement events.
They’ve hired Joe the Plumber, and Michelle Malkin and Mary Katherine Ham; they’ve turned 1999′s “Club for Growth” into a powerful targeted race tool, picking races that they think that their concentrated cash can affect, beginning with One Term Wonder Congressman James Sali of Idaho.
Now, their former club president/spokesmodel Pat Toomey is a serious threat to Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania. And they decided to flex their muscle in NY23, now that the long knives are finally out.
But, in this whole New York House District 23 bloodbath, has ANY BODY NOTICED THAT IT’S NONE OF OUR GODDAMNED BUSINESS WHO THEY SEND TO CONGRESS TO REPRESENT THEM!??!?!?
In the midst of all this “freedom” bullshit, how come we don’t get to choose our own representatives, but, instead have onymous assholes like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, Eric Odom and Jackson T. Stephens* picking for us!?!? (OK, the last two are mostly ANonmous, and the link on JTS is REALLY worth reading.)
[* If you'd like to get REALLY creeped out, read THIS LINK, paying particular attention to the line "Stephens Media is responsible for editorial control of all publications except for the Northwest Arkansas edition of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ..."]
But if government is so awful and terrible why do they want to run OUR governments? I mean like Oregon, and New York House District 23, and Idaho’s congressional seat … ?
The “we can’t tell you who they are” men behind this movement have the cash, the organization and the opportunity to take over the GOP, and that’s exactly what they’re doing.
I even believe that they’ve made the calculation that the evangelicals will HAVE to come along with the capitalist wing of the capitalist party, so the long knives will STAY out.
I will not comment on the irony of a bitter battle for the soul of a party that has, seemingly no actual souls in membership. After the ugly excesses FOLLOWING the election, and the past eight years of silent complicity in the acceptance of a police state, it is increasingly difficult for anyone with a conscience, a memory or a soul to remain a “Republican.” Thus the precipitous drop in GOP membership without a corresponding increase in Democratic registrations.
So, I guess it’s No Souls Day in the Grand Old Party, now entirely composed of former Southern Democrats who, oddly, still comport themselves AS Southern Democrats.
Thanks Tricky Dicky.
POL = Party of LincolNoMore
We’re being shown a preview of the 2010 off year elections. Elections, I fear, in which the greatest casualty will be all forms of moderation.
Courage.
(I think we’ll need it.)
While I was reading this I was remembering that, in the not so distant past, that Gov. Paterson accused President Obama of interfering in NY’s politics, and the dems in Congress, especially Rangel, spoke out about it saying that Obama had no business interfering in the NY governor’s race, and it stopped. When Newt Gingrich spoke up about Palin, Pawlenty, and others interfering in the NY-23 race, he suddenly became the conservatives’ whipping boy, and the Newt bashing began. It’s clear to see that the far right-wingers plan to purge the Republican Party of all moderates, and they already have a hit list that includes Gingrich and Charlie Crist, among others, deemed “too liberal” to stay in the party. I’ve noticed that Pawlenty and Romney have moved even further to the right to gain acceptance among the hardcore conservatives in order to hold on to the base in preparation for their run for the presidency in 2012. They are predicting that Palin will be Obama’s 2012 opponent, and that she will win. Dede Scozzafava endorsed Owens earlier today, and she too became the target of the hardcore conservatives. I don’t know whether any of them are thinking of the damage they’re doing to the Republican Party, but it does seem that they don’t care as long as they’re able to have their way. I think this does not bode well for a united Republican Party in 2010 or 2012. Frank Rich has an excellent article about the ramifications of this fringe group’s actions on future elections. It’s a good read.
Thanks for your insights, Marjie. I personally believe that we’re watching a redux of the meltdown of the Whig party in the 1850s and the birth of a new coalition, like the original Republican party, but, this time, formulated around immoral and hateful intolerances.
But, without question, any “Party of Lincoln” has been dead for about 30 years now. Finished off by a turncoat “New Deal” Democrat named Ronald Ray Gun.