Far Right “Wack-Jobs” Dominating Debate in Congress and on the Streets

Newly leaked Tea Party videos shows off base, uneducated and uninformed extremists rallying behind Glenn Beck and the Republican Party

Joe Wilson’s interrupting outburst last week during the President’s speech on health care reform drew sharp criticism from all sides of the political spectrum. But to the ignorant army of Glenn Beck supporters, tea party extremists and others its become a rallying cry. And this new wave of right wing radicalism has many in the Republican Party worried.

Republican media consultant Mark McKinnon. says “Neither party has an exclusive on wack jobs, unfortunately, right now the Democrats generally get defined by President Obama, and Republicans, who have no clear leadership, get defined by crackpots — and then they begin to define the Republican Party in the mind of the general public.”

And no where was this growing movement of right wing wack jobs more apparent than last weekend’s “Tea Party” in Washington D.C. Newly published video from liveleak.com shows these right wing extremist wackos in their true form. Protesters showed their uneducated and generally confused views protesting everything from health insurance reform, the IRS, abortion, global warming, and our "socialist/communist/fascist/Nazi/Muslim " president, Barack Obama to calls for a return to McCarthyism, while others called for Glenn Beck to run for President.

Is this the new face of the Republican Party?

Former communications director for the Republican National Committee, Brian Jones finds it annoying when radicals and cracks like Joe Wilson and Glenn Beck try to hijack the parties image.

“You have a little bit of tyranny of the minority with these people, it may raise their profile, it may make them more attractive in their district — but does it really help the image of the party in the midst of an important debate? I think no. Obviously, there are some who will be cheering this, but I think the cake is baked with them in terms of how they feel about Obama and health care.”

But Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the Republicans’ campaign arm in the Senate, suggests that it’s not fair to tar the GOP with its fringier elements — and that the criticism won’t last anyway.

“I think that it’s a free country,” he says. “Anybody can say what they want, they can identify themselves as a Democrat, independent, a Republican, a socialist or whatever they want to call themselves. That doesn’t mean they were representative of a political party or the mainstream of a political party.”

But with the recent rise in extremism from the likes of Sarah Palin, Joe Wilson, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, can the party really survive beyond relying on a base of uninformed, confused, uneducated and racist white people?

Watch the video and decide for yourself