There's a short piece in the morning Globe about The Greater Boston Tea Party it's worth reading online for the comments.  The comment threads of the Globe are generally pretty entertaining.  It's where high-minded Herald readers come to vent. 

This particular comments thread had a wonderful little illustration of the dilemma on the right these days:


The problem here — as with, say, Sarah Palin, campaigning for McCain (and wouldn't it be delicious if he lost his senate seat because of it!), telling her fellow teabaggers "when we talk about taking up arms, we're talking about our votes" — is that the wink-wink-nudge-nudge wing of the party can't suppress the irony-challenged imbeciles within it.

I mean, here you have SeenALot implying, like House Minority Whip Eric Cantor more or less did the other day, that it's really the Democrats "fanning the flames" of violence and racism by pointing out that the Tea Party and the GOP are engaging in it.  To which a quite reasonable (but kind of Arab-sounding) hakim1 makes the point that an all-white crowd in Brockton is a newsworthy event. Yooper2 jumps in to defend SeenALot with a typically teabaggy racist bon mot (complete with the requisite misspelled word).  Oh, they are a witty bunch!

The only thing missing — and as I write it's still early in the thread — is someone pointing out the blatant racism in yooper2's remark, and another teabagger coming back with a theory that yooper2 is actually a liberal plant, placed in the thread by the Globe to discredit the opposition.

It could, of course, go round and round from there, and likely will.  And that, my friends, is the right's strategy in a nutshell.