The Cocktail Party

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor--he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation--he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city--he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.
--Cicero, 42 B.C.

(Emphases mine.)

Some people are still confused about the term, "Cocktail Party."  Here's an example of a Cocktail Party lifer, namely Karl "the Architect Assassin" Rove, aka "Tokyo Rove" or "That Dick On Hannity."

The Cocktail Party members don't want actual change, though they want you to believe they do.  They make a big show of making what amount to very small changes within the Republican Party, usually exchanging one weak-spined DeceptiCon for another while pretending that this will amount to a 'great conservative revolution.'

Of course, when genuine conservatives--say, Sarah Palin or the Good Witch of the Northeast, Christine O'Donnell--appear on the scene, Cocktail Partiers soil themselves and do everything they can to sabotage any chance of their election.  Why?  Because real conservatives believe in limited and accountable government, which is a direct threat to the people in both parties who've been tag-teaming us for most of a century now.

So, Mr. Rove...you thought you could run your mouth safely in a foreign media?  All media is global now, sir.  Whoever you speak to, wherever you are, your words will find their way to American ears.  And, to put it mildly, we do not like what we're hearing.  With each passing day, you reveal yourself as part of the problem in this country, and eventually you'll be deservedly cast out of the political scene.