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Special Comment: Hot Air

Keith Olbermann’s latest Special Comment are the words of a man who is scared of defeat.  In a 20 minute comment, he rails against countless members of the Tea Party.  The polls show that Republicans are going to win in a landslide and that the Tea Party will take over the country and ruin it.  By going through the litany of their disturbing beliefs, Olbermann hopes to scare the liberals who watch his show (myself included) to get out the vote and somehow stop the inevitable.

But this part is what really got under my skin:

But it is the worst thing to sit back and let it happen, to not find the time and the means to convince just one other sane voter to put aside the disappointment of the last two years and look to the future and vote.  Because the disappointment of the last two years will be the “good old days” in a Tea Party America.

My response is “How does a Tea Party happen?”  It happens because of Democrats like these.  It happens because Democrats don’t really want progressive causes.  The Tea Party can serve as a long-needed wake-up call that voters don’t want weak-sauce, ineffective Democrats.  To vote Dem only delays the inevitable, right-ward shift of the party.  How much wrangling was required in the health care bill because of “Democrats” like Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman and their ilk?  A “D” next to your name doesn’t guarantee my vote and I won’t be scared into voting for people I don’t believe in simply because the nutjobs are coming.

The Tea Party represents a dream and an unrealistic one at that.  The only way for Americans to see that the dream is false is to show it.  Delay the Tea Party, and Americans will keep thinking that perhaps these people have the answers.  Give them two miserable years in office and watch their cause deflate.

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