The Mask Has Been Removed

Of course the Tea Baggers aren't pleased with this decision by the RNC.

"They don’t get it,” Judson Phillips, a Nashville lawyer who organized the National Tea Party Convention last month, told the Beast. “They freaking don’t get it.” Phillips said he disagreed with the characterization of small donors as “reactionary” and motivated by “fear.” “Our motives are patriotic,” he said. “Can they be any more insulting? I guess they could have called us teabaggers, but Holy Cow, I’m so blown away by the whole thing I’m just sitting here stunned.”

A spokesman for FreedomWorks, the activist group led by Dick Armey that helped organize the first Tea Party protests, called the presentation “inept and silly.”

“I’m just kind of shocked,” the group’s spokesman, Adam Brandon, said. “I don't get what they were trying to accomplish... if I were them I’d try to say we're strong on policy and we're going to get the energy of these Tea Party activists and earn their trust. That seems a much more compelling message than cartoons.”

He added that the “fear” descriptor, while technically accurate in the sense donors are concerned about government policy, sent the wrong message. “When people start using the term ‘fear’ you start getting the black helicopter mythology going,” he said.

Any wouldn't they be pissed at this action from the RNC? After all, the Tea Baggers are nothing more than Republicans disguised as "independent" and "concerned" citizens. They have to maintain that characterization, even if it means attacking the organization that represents the party they are going to vote with regardless of statements made about how they are "upset with BOTH parties".

And Micheal Steele is in full damage control mode.



You see, when you use the "fear" card, you have to be one of two ways: subtle, with nuanced rhetoric that creates the appearance of fact-based research, or smash-and-grab-balls-out-loud.

The Tea Baggers make up the later, but they continually try to claim they are being the former. So, it would be easy to understand why the RNC would want to capitalize on how well their fringe base ( which is really the mainstream base of the Republican party now ) is doing. But the Tea Baggers really shouldn't be so upset with this end result, as they created this monster.