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Na Kyung-won, the ruling Grand National Party’s candidate for Seoul mayor, has a few things in common with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who ran with John McCain for the Republican Party in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Both are prominent female politicians in their countries and are raising a child with Down`s syndrome. Na met Palin Tuesday on the sidelines of the World Knowledge Forum at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel in Seoul`s Gwangjin district. Their dialogue began with welfare policies, a major issue in the Oct. 26 by-election in Seoul. Na said, “I believe in `honest welfare` in...

I just read a very bizarre blog post about entrenched incumbent Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch by Fox News anchor Greta van Susteren and then watched an equally distressing interview van Susteren conducted last night with Sarah Palin regarding Hatch. First, the title of van Susteren’s blog post: “Is someone trying to manipulate the UTAH Tea Party vote unfairly away from Senator Orrin Hatch?” Van Susteren absurdly suggests that dark, sinister, unnamed, and uninformed forces in Utah with outside backing are somehow trying to take away Hatch’s seat through nefarious means. She’s clearly talking about D.C.-based fiscal conservative groups like FreedomWorks...

This is a snippet from the introduction of the book: My family and I have spent a lot of the last year traveling the country. I’ve visited dozens of cities in more than half of the fifty state on a tour for my first book, Going Rogue, helping out candidates running for office, and promoting pro-American causes. My visit to Boston was the nest-to-last stop of the Tea Party Express in a forty-four-city, three-week tour. I was there when the tour began, in the desert sands of Searchlight, Nevada, when more than ten thousand citizens turned out to take back...

I consider myself to be a man of many tastes. But there is one taste I do not like. Tea. It doesn’t matter what kind it is Ice tea, hot tea, sweet tea, green tea, black tea or white tea. I hate them all. Maybe that is why I have such an utter distaste for the Tea Party. Last January, moderate Republican Scott Brown took the country by storm when Massachusetts, the most liberal state in the Union, elected him to fill the seat of the Lion of the Senate, the late Ted Kennedy. The Tea Party was due much...

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Co-Opt 'Em! Sat, Sep. 25, 2010 Ken Connor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the midterm elections rapidly approach and Tea Party candidates continue to gain ground in primary battles across the country, the Republican establishment is beginning to feel the sand shift beneath their feet. Rather than resigning themselves to irrelevancy however, key leaders within the GOP establishment are determined to find a way to translate Tea Party enthusiasm into further entrenchment of the Republican status quo. The relationship between the Tea Party Patriots and the GOP has been tenuous since the movement began over a year ago....

Republican Jeff Perry, a self-proclaimed Tea Party member, said he doesn’t want former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to campaign for him because of the baggage she would bring, after dismissing the former vice presidential candidate as an “entertainer” in a TV interview. “I don’t want to interject the debate over the national Tea Party with my race about my district,” said Perry, seeking to replace U.S. Rep. William Delahunt. “I’m trying not to interject a national debate that would distract from my message.”

Just when we were wondering what -- if any role -- the Tea Party would play in statewide California races this fall we hear that US Senate candidate Carly Fiorina will be meeting with Tea Party grassrootsers and GOPers at noon Friday in Mill Valley at the Mill Valley Community Center. Billed in the invite as "your opportunity to hear Carly speak and get your questions answered!" it's sponsored by the Bay Area Patriots and San Francisco Tea Party, the Marin GOP and Novato Republican Women, Federated. We'd love to tell you about it, but it is billed as "open...