300x300_alertLet’s be careful.  Erick at Redstate take the hysterical road by threatening to ban so-called truthers, and birthers while bemoaning how they are hijacking the Tea Party Movement.

“Birfers and Truthers are not welcome here. Period. End of Story.

But I want to expand on this too.

The tea party movement is in danger of getting a bad reputation for allowing birfers and truthers to share the stage. At the National Tea Party, Joseph Farah treated the birfer issue as legitimate. In Texas, tea party activists have rallied to Debra Medina who, just yesterday, refused to definitely dismiss the 9/11 truther conspiracy as crackpot nonsense. If a candidate cannot do that, we cannot help that candidate. It’s that simple.

So we arrive at one of those moments where I am fully prepared to part ways with the individuals and groups willing to share the stage and treat as legitimate the crazies who believe the President was born in Kenya, the crazies who believe our government was complicit September 11th terrorist attacks … two groups, incidentally that increasingly overlap.”

Fine. I agree that we – as a conservatives shouldn’t be involved in so many of these theories, but we shouldn’t also be bowing at the altar of the Tea Party movement as if it’s our salvation for conservative renewal – it’s not.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the Tea Party movement. But I’m not a member of it, nor necessarily participate in all their events. I’m a conservative. It’s great to see the grass-roots rise up against the wasteful government spending in Washington, but they are only a part of the total movement back to conservatism, not the main event.

No doubt the Tea Party Movement will have it’s share of nuts, all movements will. Move On began as a simple organization to “move on” with the progressive movement beyond Bill Clinton, but turned into a nut infested hive malcontents. The Tea Party movement could very well spin out of control, but people on election day in 2010 and 2012 aren’t going to vote for fiscal responsibility merely because of the Tea Party. They are going to vote – as we’ve seen in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts because they’ve had enough of what’s going on in Washington.

Let’s not define that by any group name, that’s what the liberals and the MSM are trying to do to discredit – explain away – the huge wave of public outcry against Barack Obama, Democrats and the bankrupting of America.

Again, let’s be careful that’s all.

UPDATE:  Good read from Glenn Reynolds.

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