If the 2008 presidential election had gone the other way, would there be a Tea Party today?
Unless the economy had magically recovered with nothing but tax cuts, a voter uprising seems inevitable. And would it have targeted only Congressional Democrats without spreading to “the treachery” of President John McCain, never accepted as a true believer by the Rush Limbaughs of his party and fervent followers of a Vice-President Sarah Palin?
A new Vanity Fair piece reports McCain’s primary opponent in Arizona this year arguing “the country was better off with Obama as president than it would have been with an unreliably conservative McCain.”
In office, the former maverick would have resisted a Detroit rescue, the stimulus and health care reform but arrived with the TARP bailout in place and irresistible momentum to do something in the face of economic collapse and soaring unemployment
After battles, cutbacks and veto threats, that “something” would surely have been enough government interference to rouse Tea Party patriots, particularly with their poster girl presiding over the Senate a heartbeat away.
In that event, Sarah Palin would surely have become the most activist VP since Dick Cheney–only not as loyal. Could she have resisted airing her campaign struggles in “Going Rogue” and sharing her thoughts with other Momma Grizzlies on Facebook?
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