What's Wrong With These People

This morning Jonah Goldberg weighs in on last night's primaries noting, among other bits of wrong-headedness,  that even if we

say the “establishment” turns out to be right about O’Donnell’s chances in the general. That proves what about the tea parties? That they are a liability for the GOP and conservatism?

Nonsense.

What it proves is  that amidst a massive and massively successful grassroots uprising, the tea parties miscalculated in one race. Unfortunate, but hardly calamitous.
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When you have an organic grassroots uprising, it’s sort of silly to expect that it will make every decision with surgical skill and perfect foresight. Indeed, the attempt to play mincing games of compromise threatens to cool the very passions that have gotten us this far.

O'Donnell has the support of Senator Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin.  The Tea Party Patriots are the work of Dick Armey's Freedomworks, Glenn Beck, and Fox News. How "massively successful" have the Tea Party Patriots been?  So far they have successfully chased out "moderate" Republicans who didn't say crazy things on a daily basis for radical nutcases who say crazy things on an hourly basis.

But why stop with O'Donnell one of the other Tea Party Patriot's winners was Carl Paladino.  He is as famous for his ability to forward emails as was Michael Scott. Recently it came to light that

[a]lthough many of the emails included anti-Obama birther claims, and others were just pictures of naked women, (one of each was sent to Paladino by a current Republican candidate for Volker’s seat in the State Senate).
Some of Paladino’s emails contain hardcore pornography. One contains a video clip involving bestiality. Other emails display an attitude of misogyny or blatant racism – the latter being an issue with which Paladino already has a problem, given his past dealings with, and criticisms of Antoine Thompson, Jim Pitts, Byron Brown, and Dr. James Williams.
Some of the emails and associated content are provided after the jump, since they’re dramatically unsafe for work. Frankly, a few are unsafe for anywhere.

Or Sharron Angle's descent from sure-fired winner to likely loser who is now afraid to open her mouth.

Goldberg and Co. have to redefine massively successful to mean  Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin made some money and helped to nominate a bunch of crazy people to run for offices in which they would be able to do crazy things. Americans aren't crazy, however, so we should be safe.