I'm not saying that there was nothing wrong with the IRS selectively targeting Tea Party groups and "patriot" groups for extra scrutiny of their tax exempt qualifications, but there's probably more politics involved than wrong-doing.
The real scandal involving tax exempt political groups is that the IRS is not all over all of them -- especially including Karl Rove's big PAC that hardly even puts up a "social welfare" front to cover its political activities. The Democrats are not totally clean either.
But, more than that, it's individual, local politics. The big fear in Republican races for 2014 is that the Tea Party would turn against the Republicans, that they would win the primaries with ultra-conservatives and then lose to Democrats in the general elections.
Mitch "Aunt Minnie" McConnell is a case in point. So far, he has no announced Democratic aspirant to challenge him in Kentucky's senatorial election. So his only hurdle to re-election, despite his unpopularity, is the Tea Party.
So the IRS debacle hands McConnell a silver platter on which to demonstrate his standing up for the conservatives, aka Tea Party.
Do you think this might motivate Aunt Minnie just a wee bit?
Ralph
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