On Dec. 16, 1773, American patriots dressed as Indians threw 342 chests of tea from three British ships into Boston Harbour. Led by Samuel Adams, the action was taken to prevent the payment of a British-imposed tax on tea and to protest the British monopoly of the colonial tea trade authorized by the Tea Act. In retaliation, Parliament passed the punitive Intolerable Acts, which further united the colonies in their opposition to the British.

Former Alaskan Governor and Conservative Leader Sarah Palin warned Beltway Elitists Monday that the mainstream Republican Party must embrace the core conservative principles of the Tea Party movement or disappear.

According to Governor Palin, the Republican Party machine realizes how the Tea Party movement’s “we the people” message has resonated on the political right, as well as with independents and moderates. The message emphasizes free market principles and individual and state powers instead of expanded federal powers.

Heaven forbid the GOP machine strays from this message. If so, the GOP is through.

The ideas of the Tea Party movement are the American ideals that will put us back to work.

Her comments were in response to the question of whether the Tea Party movement is dividing the Republican Party.

Tea Party-backed candidates have mopped the floor with mainstream Republican candidates, including several congressional incumbents, in several primaries across the country this year. Some pundits, professional and amateur, claim that the Tea Party victories have harmed Republican chances for victory.

Actually, the Republican Party’s own Beltway Elitism is its worst enemy.

What are the Democrats offering in response to this groundswell movement?

They are riding the back of President Barack Hussein Obama in a last-ditch attempt to try to limit the damage done to their party in the Midterm Elections.  Why would they stake their hopes on an unpopular president with sinking poll numbers?  Hey, damaged goods though he may be, Scooter remains the best asset Democrats have.  Pretty sad, huh?

Scooter is the least of his party’s problems right now. He’s still more popular than his party’s congressional leaders, individually or collectively (like Pelosi…shudder). 

Which isn’t to say that the president is everybody’s favorite public speaker. The man who turned Hope and Change into Fear and Frustration is having a huge problem trying to rekindle the fire that his base once felt in their hearts.

According to Republicans, they’ve found that Mr. Obama’s visits around the country, even if they fire up the Dems a little bit, also remind Republicans why they can’t stand him.

Considering the other losers that the Dems could put in front of the public, Scooter still represents the party’s best bet.  Like I said:  Pretty sad, huh?  His job-approval rating stands, depending on which poll you look at, from the low 40s to 46%.

And beyond that job grade, 47% say they have positive feelings toward Mr. Obama. That’s a higher positive rating than either Bush had in 2006, or Clinton had at this point in 1994, just before a Republican wave hit his presidency in midterm elections.

But they did not have the worst American economy in most Americans’ lifetimes working against them, either.

Sadly for the Dems, there isn’t any other Democratic leader,unless you count Bubba Clinton, now in the midst of a remarkable popularity comeback,who engenders similar positive vibes.  

In the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was the most despised of any current political leader tested. A striking 50% said they have negative feelings about her, compared with just 22% who have positive feelings.  And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid inspired positive feelings among just 15% of Americans, and negative feelings among 32%. Stunningly, after four years atop the Senate, the last two ramming unwanted legislation down Americans’ throats, Dinghy Harry inspired no feelings at all among a third of Americans, who either don’t know who he is or aren’t sure what they think of him.  Or don’t care.

Pretty smart thinking by the Republican Party to have most of their ads attacking San Fran Nan, huh?

So, the Democratic Party has sent Dear Leader out among us common folks, banking on the charisma that brought them the presidency to pull their fat out of the fire in the Midterms.  Unfortunately, their strategy has some big problems, not the least of which is their chosen figurehead.

The president may be becoming unhinged.  I hate saying this,  as I truly do pray for his well-being every morning.  But, this weekend, as he was saying this:

People out there are still hurting very badly, and they are still scared.  And so part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared.  And the country is scared, and they have good reason to be.

He was looking like this:

According to America’s favorite Conservative Talk Show Host Rush Limbaugh:

An American president has never had facial expressions like this.  At least we’ve never seen photos of an American president with facial expressions like this.