Beware the Neocon Coöpting of the Tea Parties

"Ross Perot tapped into a populist anger in the 1990s; Democrats may fall prey to those same forces," begins Jonah Goldberg — Perotistas on the march.

"The tea-party protesters are in large part the heirs of Perotism," he notes, but "[l]iberal commentators are entirely deaf to the fact that the tea partyers have considerable antipathy to both political parties." Nevertheless, his concludes, "If the GOP can convincingly align with and exploit the growing Perotista discontent, it very well might ride to victory on a tsunami the Democrats can't even see."

So it's all about riding whatever vehicle back to power? How Machievellian! How neocon! Remember, Ross Perot "vigorously opposed the United States involvement in the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War" and after "unsuccessfully [having] urged Senators to vote against the war resolution, [he] began to consider his own Presidential run."