Tucker Carlson: "The Tea Party has destroyed the Republican establishment."

Courtesy of Mediaite:

"Leaderless movements don’t endure because they can’t. This is basically a leaderless movement. But I think it’s had a huge effect, and its biggest effect that almost no one ever mentions is that the Tea Party destroyed the Republican establishment. All the people Republicans and conservatives have looked to for guidance have been basically discredited by the Tea Party, which has alllowed this current chaos to flower. That may be a good thing, it might be a bad thing. I don’t even know. But that is the legacy of the Tea Party. No more Washington establishment on the right."

So since Sarah Palin served as the face of the Teabaggers when they were struggling for recognition, and provided them access to the media, does this mean we need to send her "thank you" cards? Cause you KNOW she did not do this on purpose!

I imagine in her simplistic fashion she believed that ALL the Republicans needed to do was to elect a couple of criminally under educated politicians, with no ability to compromise, and they would "fix" what she, and people just as dimwitted as she, perceived as the problems in this country.

Instead, electing these Teabaggers did nothing except slam the brakes on any progress that could have possibly come out of Congress, helped define the Democrats as the only serious political party trying to help Americans, while forcing the current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls to embrace the most ignorant political points of view imaginable in a desperate attempt to seem even more like a crazy right wing loon than their  opponents, and hopefully earn the support of the Tea Party paint chip eaters in the process.

We progressives could not have planned it better if we had tried.

Gee thanks Sarah!