It was a younger, more innocent time. Remember when Crazy Eileen was crazy instead of the base & energy of the Republican Party?
The first meeting where we really got to see the birthers and the teabaggers take over was June 30, 2009 (sorry, we missed the anniversary). Jason first posted the video on DL on July 18. A few days later, Crazy Eileen went viral.
It was interesting wading through the archives to find this post. There were quite a few posts by various authors about how Republicans were becoming the Crazy Eileen party and how this would hurt them in the long run. I’m not sure what the outcome of the midterms is going to be yet but the extremism of some of the Republican candidates means Republicans will lose some seats that they would have won (like Nevada). We also speculated whether Mike Castle would be the victim of a wingnut uprising. The O’Donnell fans are making a lot of noise right now but whether that’s more than noise is still an open question right now.