This Week in Bizarro Politics: Ron Paul is TOO LIBERAL for the Tea Baggers! Time to Eat Their Own!

The man thought to be the Father of the Tea Bag movement, Dr. Ron Paul, has been thrown overboard — deep in the heart of Texas, no less. Makes me ask, “Just how conservative must a potential candidate BE?”

Ron Paul has found himself in a hostile takeover situation, with no less than three challengers for his House seat, and all claim to be real Tea Baggers. Dr. Paul begat the Tea Partiers in 2007, on the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, when he raised $6 million in a one-day, Web-based fundraiser. That was then.

The challengers Paul will face in the primary all claim to be active in the Tea Bagger movement, having organized local meetings and groups. Gerald Wall, Tim Graney and John Gay all warn Dr. Paul that he isn’t immune to the “anti-Washington” sentiments sweeping the Movement — nevermind that it was all his idea, and he’s been nothing if not consistent in his conservative political beliefs.

It paints an interesting picture, doesn’t it? It appears that this movement that claims to stand on rock-hard “conservative principles,” really stand in quicksand if they can turn their attack dogs on Dr. Paul. So it seems to me that this has absolutely NOTHING AT ALL to do with principles, but is really all about destruction of the system itself. The very system they are signing up to be a part of. Seems an understatement to call it “counterintuitive,” doesn’t it?

If this so-called movement does manage to run the board in elections in November, what could they possibly hope to accomplish? I’ve yet to hear a cogent policy plan from any of these people, including their Queen, Sarah Palin. They haven’t looked past the election. But elections are one thing. The ability to actually govern is quite another. And these clowns haven’t shown they have the intellectual capacity to understand the legislative process, let alone make it work.

I’m waiting for voters to ask them about these things. I’m waiting for positions on real issues to be proffered by even ONE of these possible legislators. So far, we get a lot of ridiculous rhetoric and despicable images and bad spelling on some signs at rallies. As far as I know, “Throw the Bums Out” doesn’t policy make. Nor does “Democrats are Commies.” The Republic Party doesn’t realize (or care) that these upstart Tea Baggers have pulled out the plug in the tub. If successful, the Republics will suffer a gigantic “brain drain” with this new crop of “Revolutionaries,” and they really can’t afford to lose what little “brain” they currently have.

Who would have ever believed that people like Eric Cantor and Mitch McConnell and John Boehner could ever be considered the “brains” of ANY Party? Let’s just hope we don’t wake up and wish for “the good old days.”

Bizzaro World, indeed.

But that’s just My Three Cents…