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Top-down blowback; The GOP Discovers that the Grassroots Bites Back

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That doesn't seem to be happening with the Republican party today. It may be because the forces of wildness-- Limbaugh, Beck, Palin and their imitators-- have become more powerful than any of the top-down leaders, like Michael Steele, who in some ways, has echoed the sentiments and messages that have emerged from the grassroots teapartiers.

What happens when the bottom causes the top to adopt its ideas and issues? Sometimes craziness, but sometimes democracy, and maybe even elected officials actually representing the true interests and concerns of their constituents. Or those elected officials could just represent the loudest voices. That's also a bottom up consideration. Squeaky wheels will always get the grease.

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Curtain pulled back to show the real "Oz" by Steven G. Erickson on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:03:38 AM
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain... by David Kendall on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:09:16 PM
Bill Maher said it best: by Maxwell on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:04:59 AM
Conservative Democrats, an alias for Republican by janet o'connell on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:16:18 AM
Stupidity by Angel Ocasio on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:21:39 AM
"What the Republican Party relies on..." by Jill Herendeen on Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:01:04 AM
snakes in the grassroots by robert braunstein on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:56:01 AM
Do you get paid? by Phil Weingart on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:20:06 AM
tripestry by robert braunstein on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:57:51 AM
I agree. by David Kendall on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:55:19 PM
Phil, Who are You? by John Lorenz on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:48:37 PM
Grassroots???? by Frank Rommey on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:30:30 AM
How by Michael Dewey on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:41:49 AM
Lots of angry people.... by Michael Shaw on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:23:19 AM
How by Michael Dewey on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:23:55 PM
About time by Carol Crown on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:30:26 AM
Rob, I'm beginning to see "bottom up" as I had hoped for by Margaret Bassett on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:06:00 PM
Republican Diversity by John Sanchez Jr. on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:12:40 PM
Yes! There is Hope of Progressive "Bottom Up" Activism by Paul Roden on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:28:54 PM
Kall's presumptions by Richard Hirschhorn on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:34:56 PM
actually, RIchard by Rob Kall on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:58:44 PM
Kall's presumtions by Richard Hirschhorn on Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:06:01 PM
A WARNING TO " WASHINGTON " by Larry Monks on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:31:29 PM
re: A WARNING TO " WASHINGTON by Ginger McClemons on Saturday, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:59:55 AM
Turn the Firehoses on the Scum by Ed Encho on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:50:54 PM
As a Liberal by shirley reese on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:45:16 PM
Answer me this! by Marta Steele on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:30:37 PM
Well done... by AJ Villalba on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:52:35 PM
Take Out the GOP Grass Roots Garbage by Ed Encho on Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:57:52 AM
The Fat Cats Enjoy the Peasant Clashes by Jason Paz on Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:35:59 AM
The Republican Party already is the Tea Party by Perry Logan on Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:34:24 PM
Let's be fair .... by Natalie Oberman on Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:53:46 PM
anti war crowd by robert braunstein on Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:20:41 PM
Consequences of appealing to the worst instincts by Bill Samuel on Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:01:27 PM
WHAT SURPRISES ME IS THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO.. by Ginger McClemons on Saturday, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:13:08 PM