It's not Republican in-fighting, it's a rescue attempt

America is in the early stages of a revolt. It's not a revolt of the right or the left, or something generated by a political organization. It's a revolt of the people - a passionate response to an attack on the human need to be free from despotism.

We don't need to attach a face to it or name an individual who started it, because a grassroots revolt doesn't start from a leader. And the Tea Party movement, by its nature, cannot have one person at the head, since one of the key aspects of it is its opposition to centralized control, particularly that of the federal government. While there has been a rapid growth of the federal government ever since Franklin Roosevelt's administration, outrage against further growth began to come to a head as the previous President's administration went out with a big-government-bailout bang. And while changes in law enforcement and espionage were required to help prevent thousands more from being killed after the mass-murder terrorism attack of September 11, 2001, the resulting changes had produced one of the biggest increases in centralized government control the nation had ever seen. That growth of government would soon pale in comparison, however, to what would happen once Democrat majorities in the House and Senate were accompanied by a Democrat in the White House. As they passed legislation in 2009 and 2010 that gave tremendously more control to government bureaucracies and required trillions of dollars more in spending, the revolt that was brewing hit the political scene. And in the November 2010 election, it was primarily responsible for one of the biggest shifts in history from one party to the other in the House of Representatives. But grassroots movements are change agents, and every change agent causes a reaction or an opposition. The Democrats, united with the leftist propaganda media, were the first to respond, and got their faithful followers to accept the lie that it was a bunch of racist, backward, uneducated hicks that were stirring up the trouble.

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At the same time, opposition arose from leadership in the Republican Party, as they began to see the Tea Party movement as a threat to their power base. This was no real surprise, since for decades establishment leadership had been trying to turn the Republican Party into the Democrat-Lite party, looking for ways to position themselves in the growing Leviathan rather than opposing the growth of oppressive government. So in 2012, the establishment leadership in the Republican Party began to work to prevent Tea Party candidates from being elected in the primary elections, and in the general election campaign even withheld support from Tea Party candidates running against Democrats. Rising to leadership due to the Tea Party wins in the 2010 election, John Boehner became the Speaker of the House. After two years, however, Boehner began to process of eliminating from leadership in House committees those who held to their principles and would not rubber-stamp their support on bills just because the Speaker said they should. In response to being removed by Boehner from the House Agriculture and Business committees in December of 2012, Congressman Tim Huelskamp said the following: "Kansans who sent me to Washington did so to change the way things are done not to provide cover for Establishment Republicans who only give lip service to conservative principles. If the rest of America is anything like the 700,000 Kansans I represent, then they know that the fiscal and cultural crises facing our nation require drastic changes to the way things are done in Washington not just symbolic gestures or more of the same." While the mainstream media portrays the conflict within the party as Republican in-fighting, in reality it is a rescue attempt. As the Republican Party heads toward irrelevance under establishment control, embracing Tea Party positions and their candidates will bring a much needed infusion of life into the party.