Reported on by The Blaze in an article entitled, “Guess who said Michelle Bachmann ‘did nothing’ as Tea Party Caucus Chair?”, Karl Rove used his appearance on George Stephanopoulos’ show, alongside Arianna Huffington, to give Michelle Bachmann a raspberry on her way out of office. He also offered political advice to the same Tea Party he has promised to target with his PAC in primaries.
Several members of the liberal panel were doing thinly-veiled touchdown dances at the news that Michelle Bachmann will not run for re-election.
The authentic Tea Party offers the only real opposition to the bi-partisan ruling class. Rove pointed out that the ruling class Democrat was no longer needed to run against Bachmann now that the ruling class can again control this Republican district with a Republican.
Of course, Rove made it sound like the Democrat was licking his chops to run against a Tea Party candidate but is afraid of a ruling class Republican.
This goes right along with Rove’s narrative that the Tea Party was to blame for the monumental underachievement that Rove quarterbacked in 2012.
You remember 2012, right? All of the Tea Party-preferred presidential candidates were buried under a mountain of ruling class cash, the establishment bought the nomination, and Romney ushered in a huge Democratic win.
This was, of course, hot on the heels of the Tea Party tsunami of 2010.
Since Rove was one of the architects of this failure, one in which the GOP’s base was not secured, he really has no other choice but to push this mythology. The only alternative is to admit he was and is wrong.
Rove said that Bachmann achieved nothing as Tea Party caucus chair, and that now maybe the Tea Party can get someone who can.
Of course, this is on Rove’s definition of “doing things”, which means passing legislation.
As an authentic outsider, Bachmann always stood little chance of passing much positive legislation. The bi-partisan ruling class made sure of that. It’s when the outsiders win the big positions that this starts to happen. An outsider’s job at this stage is to make it harder for the establishment to quietly mislead average Americans and to help build for the future.
What Bachmann did do was stick to her principle from a visible perch, giving definition to the battle going on in DC between ruling class Republicans and Tea Party Republicans.
Rove is undoubtedly right about the Tea Party Caucus. There are plenty of ruling class-owned-and-operated conservative fakes to choose from, and the establishment will be happy to co-opt the Tea Party caucus if one is elected.
If this happens, you’ll see two things happen side-by-side: The Tea Party caucus will lose it’s prophetic voice and start to “win” over hyped, mostly symbolic victories.
In other words, the Tea Party Caucus would start to look just like the Republican Party.
The grassroots’ strength is on the ground inside districts. Once enough seats are won, conviction conservatives will, at last, have no trouble “doing things”.
–Blaze post and video