Donations to Karl Rove's Groups Drop 98% After Targeting Tea Party

How a mind as fine as Karl Rove's could have thought it a good idea to declare war on the Tea Party, I'll never understand.

Chickens, roost.

How a mind as fine as Karl Rove's could have ever thought it a good idea to declare war on the Tea Party, I'll never grasp. While in many cases newcomers to activism, Tea Partiers are the heart and soul of the Republican Party, and perhaps even more important, the majority of that disturbing third of American voters who consider themselves "independents." Not all such people call themselves Tea Partiers: that's been made a dirty word, after all, mostly by people like Karl. But that reticence says nothing about their beliefs, and their beliefs -- demonstrated all too clearly in the 2006, 2008 and 2012 elections -- boil down to this: a lot of the time, it's better to elect a socialist than a big-spending RINO.

Quibble with that conclusion as you may (and I do), these are not people whom Establishment Republicans should be attacking. Indeed, if they can't quite get in bed with them, they should at least make an effort to co-opt them. But no, Karl Rove declared war, apparen…