THE TEA PARTY SUCCESS – AT 8:54 A.M. ET:  Michael Barone looks at the tea party movement, and explains its phenomenal success.  From the Washington Examiner:

I think this ad, from Colorado Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck and spotted by National Review’s Jim Geraghty, sums up one reason for the energy and enthusiasm of the tea party and other aroused opponents of the Obama Democrats this year. “They heard us, and yet they ignored us,” Buck says. The American people, speaking through polls and through the voters of (yes) Massachusetts, said, Don’t pass that health care bill. The Obama Democrats passed it anyway. They are now set to face the political consequences. Or, as Buck concludes, “Folks, on November 2 they will ignore us no more.”

Liberals who are puzzled by what’s happening should take 30 seconds and watch this ad.

The ad is at the link.

Barone is correct.  There's all kinds of journalism floating around the internet, in which grim pundits whine that Americans are know-nothings and are therefore turning against the elites, the better people with the Volvo extended warranty plan.  In fact, what Americans resent is not intellect, not accomplishment, but the arrogance of the elites, including the president, who talk down to them. 

When Dwight Eisenhower left office on January 20th, 1961, he said that now he'd achieved the highest rank of all - private citizen.  Our elites today, especially our political elites, don't understand that concept.  If they do understand it, they laugh at it.  It's their problem, and it won't be ours.

October 15, 2010