Ace catches Michael Barone with a key insight that's intuitively obvious once you stop and think about it:
Ace of Spades HQ: "I asked Michael Barone about the Democrats' full year of denial, about when they finally started to grasp that this was genuine outrage, a citizenry aroused.
He didn't answer that, but he did offer this explanation: The Democrats assumed all the Tea Party rallies and Town Hall confrontations were astroturfed and filled with Republican operatives, because that's precisely how they gin up their public displays of support.
They almost couldn't grasp the possibility that our rallies, unlike theirs, might be real."