Conservative Refocus

By Barry Secrest

A recent column titled "Principled Foolishness" from Kathleen Parker, admonishes the Tea Party for acting as "Kidnappers," rather than the Vice-President's likening of the Tea Party to being "Terrorists" in the debt ceiling debacle. So, at this point the Tea Party has sojourned from being racists to becoming kidnappers and now even terrorists according to the once-removed and mostly brainless, cosmetically hair-plugged leader of the free world.  What is truly amazing, if not laughable,  is that one of Parker's long-stated goals is to "inject some sanity" into a world gone "barking mad."  Indeed...I...will... be.... nice here (ahem).

You Can Fool Some Of The People, Some Of The Time....

Now, we both know and understand that Parker, somewhat amusingly, considers herself ever so slightly to the "right of center," but in fact, it would appear that she might be referring to more of, say, a right of center in China, or perhaps even Communist Greece rather than in a truly right of center America. So let's establish one particular truth, just now, that not many have seemed to recognize, but has stood the test of both time and extreme observation. The Tea Party is the Litmus test for ascertaining true Conservatism, even party affiliations aside. So whenever you see anyone espousing dislike or disfavor upon the Tea Party, who might conversely account themselves as Conservative, one of three things is probably happening: (A) They are either fooling themselves, or (B) they are trying to fool you, or perhaps even (C) they are trying to fool both themselves and you.

But there is one particular absolute that cannot be either gainsaid or denied. To say that the Tea Party is kind of Conservative is like saying "that a woman is kind of pregnant. albeit,  "absolutes" do exist in this world--like it or not. Parker may hold some few views that dangle loosely to the right of the inner-beltway crowd, but probably not very many, based upon my experience in reading her various columns which account more as diversion entertainment than anything else.

In this particular, rather erratic column, Parker initially states that the Tea Partiers "acted like kidnappers who seize and detain a person (or nation) in exchange for ransom." She then immediately goes on to renege on her entire statement, rather enigmatically, deposing that she was merely "exaggerating for effect" and that it was all "just...annoying." Much like her serenely obnoxious column is already becoming, in fact.ead Article:

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A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Otherwise Known As The Truth: Rebuttal to Kathleen Parker's "Principled Foolishness"