Republicans gather this week in Tampa, to nominate Mitt Romney for president. This is GroundZero for the real class warfare being waged in America. No more “quiet rooms” where Romney says taxes should be discussed. They will ruminate endlessly over how to change the national mood toward the absolute necessity of limited government, individual liberties and free markets. And they will disparage ad nauseum the so-called “takers” in our society. The welfare moms. The lazy American. The women who want to murder zygotes because they’ve been everything from brutally raped to simply couldn’t keep their knees together holding an aspirin. This is the white, privileged, male, evangelical, tea party view of women and their rights. The “too good for honest work bums” that want to take their hard-inherited money away from them.

These are the “honorable ideologies” that have energized Republicans for a generation. It’s the Tea Party with the rough edges sanded down. Or is it?