Ask the Tea Party in Colorado. The answer is blowing in the wind and whither the wind goes, so goes the tea party. One day the Constitutionalist fishwrap from the Springs agrees with the Gazette that Maes should get out. The very next day, he’s back. The Constitutionalist loves him again. The whole state voted him off the island, but he won’t go. So what does the tea party do? They love him all over again.
Maes blew in like a fresh spring breeze with all the hope and promise you could want. Here was a successful businessman who had made millions, managed large organizations, had the experience and the stones to stand up to the powers that be. Turns out, all he had was the stones! The rest of it was a fraud, but now he’s their fraud.
Again. Today. Tomorrow? Well, they’ll have to cross that bridge when they come to it.
If tea party history is any guide, expect their sentiments to change. Perhaps when the cold winds start to blow in from the North, they’ll turn chilly about Maes once again. They seem to be a fickle bunch.
When you hang your hat on the mercurial, corruptible, shifting sands of the will of the people, you never know when it will be handed back to you, who will wear it in the interim, or what kind of dirt they’ll leave on it. That’s why the Founders built a country on the rule of law and tried to put as many roadblocks in the way of the will of the people as they could devise.
If you could pry the Elbert County Tea Party lose from it’s Facebook flag-waving-frenzy over the will of the people for a moment, you might let them in on this little secret of our shared history, however, the leader of this ragtag bunch of ersatz revolutionaries, one Mr. Rowland, isn’t into substantive debate, responding to dissent, or defending his ideas.