Republicans Embracing Tea Party

David Corn writes that wingnuts have taken over the GOP. But I'd contend it's less of a takeover and more the GOP outing itself, becoming what it really wants to be. After watching yesterday's tea party protest at the Capitol, that's pretty clear now. Many of these GOPers have long been birthers, have long harbored fears about Islam and have long been irrational like the wingnuts. But they kept it tamped down. Republicans ripped Jeremiah Wright, yet they embrace Jon Voight, who is a lunatic. But GOPers have been emboldened to embrace the hater within, thanks largely to the "success" of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin.

When John Boehner, the Republican leader of the House, appeared at the Tea Party rally at the Capitol on Thursday afternoon, it was a dramatic signal: The wing-nuts have taken over the GOP.

Think I'm being harsh? The angry folks at the protest -- which attracted several thousand conservatives -- held up signs with messages of hate: "Get the Red Out of the White House," "Waterboard Congress," "Ken-ya Trust Obama?" One called the president a "Traitor to the U.S. Constitution." Another sign showed pictures of dead bodies at the Dachau concentration camp and compared health care reform to the Holocaust. A different placard depicted Obama as Sambo. Yes, Sambo. Another read, "Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds" -- a reference to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory holding that one evil Jewish...read the rest at Politics Daily