Tea Partiers pour it on: We'll start the war from right here!

The horned lizard popularly known as the horned toad [in beak of unidentified bird, above] has developed "an array of defense tactics depending upon each type of predator and whether that predator likes to swallow prey whole or chew it up." Our two favorite techniques are squirting blood from their eyelids and puffing themselves up with air to appear too big to eat. Too big to fail? "Your avatar of a bird about to have a toad for lunch = metaphor for twitterers speaking truth to power?" we twittered Rightone this morning. Or is it the other way around, the bird being the powers that be and we the lizard squirting blood from our eyelids?

“We’ll start the war from right here!” Stacy McCain quotes Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. responding to conditions on the sand at Omaha Utah Beach [Thanks to Old Bull in the comments at RWV for the correction] June 6, 1944, making the point that when you're fighting for your life, you don't start equivocating "when you land on the wrong beach." Stacy's talking about disarray amongst tea-party-affiliated losers in last week's Republican primaries. You can catch the details at The Other McCain, but here's the bottom line:

At the end of the day, making your voice heard in politics — in any really effective way – requires winning elections. Winning elections at the level of a U.S. Senate race isn’t easy and depends on a lot of details that have nothing to do with national trends, so that the success or failure of any one campaign cannot automatically be taken as evidence of a trend.

Neverthless, if Kinnison and others cannot accept the nomination of Angle as legitimate, that’s a real problem. And if the Tea Party movement ends up encouraging people to be soreheads when they lose a primary, that’s a real problem, too.

Predatory members of the legacy press like the WaPo's Amy Gardner are trying to make out that "the [tea party] movement may be in danger of breaking apart before it ever really comes together," but we aren't buying. Inspired by that army of "articulate, brave and joyful conservative" women we toasted in our previous post, we're ready to start the war from right here! If you're with us, click here early and often to help Sharron Angle reap Harry Reid.

Update: Michelle Malkin "Buzzworthy" link!

Update II: Interesting historical note from lonetown in the comments at RWV:

Shades of Col John Parker: "Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."  – Captain John Parker, 1775

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Comments

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As I recall the original Tea Party personnel had many unsuccessful battles and dismal waits such as Valley Forge before the sun shone on free America. Today's members must keep the war going and their spirit strong.

[Thomas W. Knowles]

That's a shrike, commonly known as a "butcher bird" because it saves its prey (insects, lizards, frogs, small mammals, and other small birds) up for later, hanging them on thorns or barbed wire spikes. It's the shrew of the bird world, a serious predator--and I wish it had picked different prey rather than that young horned toad, which is an endangered species.

And the MSM and most of the dedicated left-of-center, big-government Democrats are delusional re the Tea Party (an alliance of Independents, Libertarians, Democrats, and Republicans who are fed up with the entrenched political elite) and what is going on out here in "flyover" country. Come November, the political elite, especially those big-government types, will find out that they are, politically speaking, an endangered species.