DNC Chairman Tim Kaine yesterday:
“I think for most thinking Americans, throwing that label around actually doesn’t hurt us,” Kaine replied. “It suggests an extremism and an ideological rigidity that isn’t where most Americans are. We are problem solvers.”
“A party that just relies on throwing labels around and refusing to cooperate, they might get a headline but they won’t get support of people,” he added. “We are going to promote smart solutions to these problems and If the other guys want to rely on labels rather than roll up their sleeves and actually help us govern a nation at a time when governance is needed — it is an abdication of responsibility but they are not going to help their case by doing that.”
He’s right. It’s the little boy crying wolf now; the Teabag Terror has been trained to regurgitate scare words so often, and for so long, that their usefulness has peaked. The same words were leveled at Obama during the 2008 election and failed to beat him; the tea party phenomenon is nothing but a doubling-down on the failures of yesteryear.
I have said this year would see Americans get tired of teabaggery, and this is exactly why.
