Strange Bedfellows

I asked Two-son to go upstairs and wake up his older brother, One-son.  As is his custom with these menial tasks, Two-son decided there were three ways to complete the task:  the right way, the rude way, and the evil way.  He chose evil, (we're working on it, but 'evil' seems to be his default setting).  Before all the hollering and poking of Three-son could wake him, Two-son crawled in bed next to his loving older brother.  As One-son gained consciousness, he found himself looking into the eyes of his archnemisis.  "I slept with you all night.", Two-son sweetly told the alarmed sibling.  One-son lost it; "Get out! Get out now!".  He didn't say exactly how he felt about it, but we did catch him looking online for do-it-yourself fumigants.

I kind of wonder if the Republican Party will not feel the same way after this election cycle.  In an effort to 'ride the wave', they have crawled into bed with the Tea Party movement, and unfortunately have discovered some strange bedfellows.  In amongst some good, honest people are a gaggle of loons who have spent the better part of their lives looking for some place to put a voice to their lunacy.  The democrats found this with the Code-Pinkers and Move-On.org.  In the clear light of day, reasonable democrats felt as if their party had been taken over by wild-eyed zealots (motto: nationalizing private enterprise in a neighborhood near you).

If the republicans want to add longevity to their current momentum, they will co-opt the good ideas in the tea party movement and distance themselves from dumb ones.  It would profit them to remember the saying, "Stupid is stupid, no matter the source.".