One Year After.

Last April the Tea Party Coalition of Western New York collapsed. Most of the groups that had been involved got out. Since that time words and accusations have been flying back and forth. The event that led to this collapse has been disputed ever since. I wrote about this in one of my earliest posts and in the Buffalo Pundit. I wrote what I saw. I added a little commentary and opinion but it was mostly what I saw. Over the weekend things seem to have gotten a little worse. I know that some current members of the Tea Party Coalition have an incredible amount of bitterness which spills over it the most outrageous comments in their blogs and google groups. One of the members that I still like has started to come out with some strange things. He points to the Tuesday before the collapse as "Black Tuesday". It was the day that leaders decided to let the man who had been the Erie County Republican Chairman to seek the endorsement of the Tea Party group. Now in all honesty, there wasn't anyway on God's green earth that he would have gotten the endorsement. But some people freaked. One of the people that freaked was a candidate for the office; the other was his paid consultant. (Of course, no one know that relationship until later.) In response to this they tried to lie to the group and deceive it into doing something that would meet their own ends. You know the old "quick get them do this before they know what's happening." To my friend, letting someone try to do something that he will never be able to do is worse that lying and trying to deceive your friends. I don't understand that. To me "Black Tuesday" was a "Beige Tuesday" at best and that a very light shade of beige. But bitterness and anger have continued to the joy of outsiders who don't like us and don't support our views. It makes us look like the lunatics they think we are. Maybe some of us are?