RedState’s Erick Erickson: Republicans should embrace Occupy Wall Street

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First came the broke unemployed drummers and poets, then the debt-ridden students, then the retired couples whose pensions and real estate holdings have withered, then the tourists, then, slowly, the journalists. On Friday, the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has been thrumming along gathering force and supporters across the country and around the world for more than a month now, won a reluctant endorsement from a chief critic, Tea Party blog king Erick Erickson at Red State.

“A friend of mine chastised me the other day. He said I was being too hostile toward the occupiers on Wall Street and elsewhere,” Wrote Erickson in the Friday blog. “(A)round the country there are… a lot of angry, unemployed people who just think the deck is stacked against them… These people are open to listen to anyone who is willing to take on Wall Street…. We shouldn’t let unwashed hippies be the only people they hear speaking to their concerns.

“(T)he time is right for a Republican candidate to take up the cause of populism against Wall Street.”

Erickson has mocked the Occupy Wall Street movement as anti-American, communist and vague and its supporters as generally filthy and unlikeable. That line got a lot of traction on the political right for weeks. Erickson even took the lead in formulating the right’s online response to the movement.

full: http://washingtonindependent.com/113784/redstates-erick-erickson-republicans-should-embrace-occupy-wall-street

[sendero]

1. He means co-opt.

.... and I don't think so.

[louis-t]

2. Co-opt so they can twist the message.

Then quash the protests. Asswipe.