DAILY BEAST Column: The Republican majority leader fanned the flames of the Tea Party movement, hoping it would help him to take over from John Boehner. Last night he got burned.
Winston Churchill once said “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.”..
But don’t give the TeaVangelist team too much credit for strategic genius. The key factor in this upset is a 12% voter turnout—meaning that 6.1% of the local electorate could make a majority. This is a paradise for activists and ideologues—Main Street voters, not so much… (more)
EDITOR: More aptly, “If you play with fire, you get burned.”
