Kleinheider is actually capable of real insightful work. What a killer piece!

I also note the usual suspects have comeout to snarl at anyone who dares to see through their charade.

"Hijack" implies that they didn't go willingly.

C'mon. The PAC that emerged from this Tea Party nonsense requires fealty to the GOP platform in order for candidates to be funded.

In case this wasn't already completely obvious, this is a "movement" of Republicans, by Republicans, for Republicans.

This convention gave them simplistic nativism, birtherism, media bashing, homophobia, and a heavy dose of neoconservative foreign policy.

In other words, a more or less accurate portrayal of the "movement:" a credulous bag of disaffected GOPers fed a steady diet of misinformation.

(Dear Tea Party: In a continuing fit of white (hot) rage, please please please push the nomination of Scott Brown and Sarah Palin for 2012. You will guarantee Obama's 2nd term in office.)