The Democrats are Falling Apart: False Flag and Petty Insults

Yesterday, I wrote about recent polling that indicates that the Democrats are doomed (at least for November).  The party, and its supporters, must be sensing this as well.  As the election grows closer, the “progressives are growing increasingly shrill and fanciful in its attacks on Conservatives, and in particular, the Tea Parties.  Here is a rather, shall we say…interesting one, as described by the Daily Caller.

A liberal group is attacking the Tea Party movement with a new project called “F*CK Tea” to discredit the solutions offered by conservative activists. It is a three-tiered campaign that includes selling t-shirts and coffee mugs with the derogatory slogan on it.

The group’s founder, Erica Payne, said the effort is intentionally edgy.

“When you look at their world view, somebody has to say f—k that. That’s not the right direction to go at,” she said in an interview.

The effort, Payne said, is meant to make people “stop a minute, and really look at the ideas” of the Tea Parties. While she said she sympathizes with what has motivated many conservative activists, ”I just think their solutions are fundamentally are wrong.”

The project has been in the works for several weeks, she said, and the group first gave the “F*CK Tea” merchandise out at the liberal Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas. They started promoting the project with the media this week.

The founder of this is Erica Payne; whose about page contains the following…

Most recently, Payne served as a senior strategist to the Roosevelt Institute to envision and build a new public policy think tank.  Working with Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, and other leading economists, Payne created a center for economic policy development including financial reform and envisioning a 21st century economy. In this role, Payne co-edited Make Markets Be Markets: Restoring the Integrity of the US Financial Markets and produced a major conference by the same name that included George Soros, Elizabeth Warren, Simon Johnson, Lynn Turner and other experts. (emphasis added)

The page indicated that much of her background is in marketing

You’d think she’d come up with something better, though I believe that her effort here is to create a meme.  Given the polling data we discussed yesterday, she’ll only be preaching to the hard left, the choir, so to speak.

Given all of the efforts and resources being expended against the Tea Parties, I would think that they’re trying to induce “tea party fatigue” on the country.  This did work against Bush, but it took years.  Now, they have just a few weeks.  That, and since the polling from the WSJ/NBC indicated that more people approve of the Tea Parties than do the Democratic Party, they might just push people to us.

Then, there was this most sad attempt at infiltration.  Take a look at this from the Daily Caller.

Though Collins took to Kentucky’s Fancy Farms event with a political sign of bilingual TV star Dora the Explorer last weekend (“she’s illegal and she’s corrupting our children,” Collins told WHAS11 TV), Collins criticized Tea Party activists in a June column for displaying distasteful signs at political events.

“As Americans we should have respect for the office, and cropping pictures to make the president look like Hitler is doing our country a disservice,” he wrote.

The WHAS11 TV reporter who first interviewed Collins was noticeably skeptical at the time that Collins was a true Rand Paul supporter. Then, Dave Weigel at Slate posted a video after the event that showed Collins walking with supporters of Democratic nominee, Jack Conway.

Collins, who could not immediately be reached for comment, was identified in the story as a political science major at Murray State University.

Perhaps the university had the students reading Rules for Radicals?  In which case, Collins has failed the course.

Here is the video.

Here is the other video from Slate.

Is there an award for “failing at infiltration,” if there isn’t there should be. Perhaps we should call it the “Tyler Collins award for infiltration failure.”

Anyway, we’re going to see more and more of this, and it will become increasingly transparent and bizarre.  Just as with their policies, their response to failure is to do more and more of the same.  They might be able to pull something big off, but at this point, they’ve so thoroughly discredited themselves, that it wil likely fail.

What do you do when your opponents are self destructing?  Step out of the way, make some popcorn, and enjoy the show.