Tea Party to O'Donnell: You're Done

Fame is fleeting. The hero who is toasted and cheered by the crowd today is met with apathy tomorrow. The world moves on. Christine O'Donnell, the thrice-failed Tea Party Senate candidate from Delaware, is a living, breathing, case study in what ails our civilization.

Her ability to say the most ridiculous things very earnestly while conveying certainty and conviction on television has been amply rewarded. She has discussed masturbation, mice-human hybrids of superior intelligence, not lying to the Nazi's if they knocked on your door and asked if you were hiding Anne Frank in the attic, and most famously, talk about dates to bloody satanic alters in high school.

Despite an absence of meaningful personal and professional accomplishments, or even steady employment, she has never lacked the attention of the cameras. She seemed, even before her failed Senate bids, to always be able to book a guest appearance on some cable show.

However, even the Tea Party has realized that O'Donnell is an embarrassment. Politico is reporting that O'Donnell has been abruptly removed from the speakers list at an event sponsored by Tea Party of America featuring Sarah Palin in Iowa. According to the group's co-founder, Charlie Gruschow, he received a flood of "emails from a lot of tea party folks that were very disappointed that she would be speaking." As a result, the event organizers decided it was in the best interests of the Tea Party "movement" not to have O'Donnell speak.

In 2010, many Republicans, including Karl Rove, noted that it was in the best interests of the GOP that O'Donnell not be a candidate for high office. They noted that she was unelectable. Delaware's State Party Chair Tom Ross went so far as to famously quip that she could not be elected dog catcher. At the time, Ross and other Republican leaders were viciously attacked by Gruschow's "movement" as elitist, establishment, snobs. And major conservative figures (Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin, Sen. Jim DeMint) literally fell over one another in the rush to provide last minute endorsements to O'Donnell.

Now we learn that all the concerns about O'Donnell were not just an elitist plot conjured up by Karl Rove, Tom Ross, and other vicious RINO's. Rove and Ross were right. O'Donnell is now viewed as an embarrassment by the movement that propelled her to fame and a primary upset win over a respected, long-serving Congressman.

Now that the movement has decided to hustle O'Donnell away from the microphone, will an apology to Rove, Ross, and all the hardworking Republicans in Delaware who saw their hopes for victory in 2012 go up in a puff of magic smoke be forthcoming from the Tea Party leaders and conservative media figures that foisted O'Donnell upon the nation?

I doubt it.