TEA For U

According to most of the talking and writing heads I’ve heard and read, the recent win by Christine O’Donnell in the Delaware GOP Senate Primary is spectacular good fortune for the Democrats. Now the Democratic candidate, according to this thinking, is a shoe-in, and the Democrats will retain the Senate seat that used to belong to Joe Biden.

I don’t quite see it. Sure, Mike Castle, who O’Donnell defeated, was a very popular, almost institution in Delaware politics. He has a lot more name recognition than Democrat Chris Coons, but he also had a lot more name recognition and was supposedly a lot more popular than Christine O’Donnell, who just defeated him. So what does that say?

To me it says that Christine O’Donnell and this whole TEA Party Movement is something to be taken very seriously. To me it says that Democrats as well as Republicans are in big trouble. To me it says that people are really, really tired of the status quo and want change. They want change from somebody, anybody.

Barrack Obama and many Democrats rode into office almost two years ago promising change. He and they promised to change the way things were done in Washington and across the US. People are not now seeing that change. People are not now seeing things as any better, and maybe even worse, than they were before.

People desperately want change. People desperately want representatives in Washington and in local government who will listen to them. As wacky as some of the TEA Party ideas may seem, they are ideas of change, and they have grabbed the interest of a lot of people.

Democrats had better be very careful, because just as they were voted in to bring about change, they could just as easily be voted out for not bringing about that change, and the TEA Partier’s are ready to Party.