The Mayhem Model

And OZ behind the curtain is packed with shotgun heat.



The tea-party 'movement' is a joke of a scam, not a populist uprising. The fact that it has all the hallmarks of a political campaign is not accident. Here is what it is:


Two guys, Dick Armey and Steve Forbes, remember that ridiculously rich guy who ran for President? -they got together and said, here's what we need to create -a movement that looks like it gives populist juice to the corporate causes we get paid handsomely to champion. So they set up the Freedom Works non-profit from an office in Washington. They have access to all the conservative mass email listserves and they start sending out more massive email appeals, and starting a buzz feeding off the general disgruntlement of anyone republican who doesn't like this Administration or just doesn't want a bunch of uppidy smarty pants ivy league black buppies (black yuppies) running our lives.
You use words like 'government take-over' and 'unconstitutional' and 'bailout bonanzas' and 'union slush funds' 'socialist nationalist health' 'death panels' etc....
Get a theme with national appeal-go back to the "Founders" who were all old white guys who owned property. The Boston Tea Party-that works for folks feeling disenfranchised because they didn't get to vote in the candidate they liked.



Its formula is simple and pretty smart because they did manage to create a bit of havoc.



The Financier (Forbes), The Well Known Front Guy (former speaker Armey) and the hoy paloy from hoboken meets the wild west meets the xenophobic racists from Arizona, plus a bit of a nice Jewish blessing from a nice Jewish boy (Billy Krystal) to make it look morally viable and intelligent complete with a new journal that looks like a law review called "National Affairs."



Then mobilize masses of people to town halls, campaign rallies (what-you thought people organized campaign rallies by themselves??) conventions in hotels across the country underwritten in part by the NRA, get an overarching national campaign theme that sounds Freedomy (that snake Don't Tread on Me thing works) and run candidates, but sssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

don't tell anyone

Because then they will figure out that you are run by the same machine and it will just look like another campaign- which it is. Run by two old politicians and the folks who feed off them.

Brilliant- sort of. Except we already figured it out.