The trick for Republican candidates is to take advantage of the Tea Party passion and stay away from its extremes — and should Democrats focus on “extreme” Tea Party positions, or try to link the movement to Bush administration policies? The Tea Party and the value of craziness: Extremism in defense of liberty isn't necessarily a vice. Stone the whales! Gay sex is terrorism! Muslims suck! and other bits of wisdom from Bryan Fischer. More and more on Boiling Mad By Kate Zernike. Days of rage: Max Blumenthal on the Tea Party and America's right. What "Republican establishment" is the Tea Party rattling? A revealing e-mail suggests that some see Sarah Palin as a figure of biblical importance — she may even agree. Both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times profile Sal Russo, the firepower behind the tea party. A review of Democrats are Dumb: A Children’s Guide by Mark W. Stephens. More and more on The Backlash by Will Bunch. Year of the Nutjob: Meet this election’s most, well, interesting candidates. The weekend of magical thinking: After its takeover of the Republican Party, the Tea Party is making plans for its takeover of the House. Like all raucous celebrations, the Tea Party will eventually wind down, the rising sun sending the stragglers shuffling back home — where does that leave the GOP? The paranoid style in American punditry: Richard Hofstadter's seminal take on right-wing crackpots sheds light on the current anti-Muslim panic. By embracing radical decentralization, Tea Party activists intend to rewrite the rule book for political organizing. What would happen if the Tea Party took over an Oval Office that has grown dangerously powerful? Our menace isn't insane right-wingers, it's unrivaled corporate power and the decay of our democratic institutions.
