Friends Say What's True - Not What You Want To Hear

The Daily Beast has a good question:

  Has the shutdown made the Tea Party go bipolar? Some of them want our pity; others are too busy celebrating to care about real people.

The answer is "no" - it wasn't the shutdown - it was Mitt Romney. 

Very quickly:

The Right was waaay beyond mistaken to run Romney. They might as well have been speaking japanese. 

He never stood a chance - and even he knew it. 

They just weren't going to tell you.

Because of the vast amount of deception going on (Thank you, Glenn Reynolds & Co.) Romney's loss came as a "shock" to conservatives. This resulted in a doubling-down of their efforts, but now with a reckless abandon.

Rather than thinking through what they'd been doing (as they swore they were and would) they stayed in Saul Alinsky's "attack" mode and absolutely anything became a sign we're dying as a nation, witnessing an outrage, or had stumbled upon a scandal. 

None of it stuck.

So now, in order to make something stick, they're throwing what they admitted was a "Hail Mary" pass. Implicit in that terminology is the understanding they recognized how far they were behind.

They just aren't going to tell you.

Post-Romney desperation led the Right to make some brutal mistakes, repeatedly, and they're all their own fault.

I've no doubt about that.

But none is as big as not dealing with the fact there's been major problems all along.

And, unfortunately, they aren't telling you that, either,...