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They may have got it from someone else, but I think that the Boyz at hillbuzz were 1 of the first to use ‘cocktail party’. I can’t find it now, but I remember reading an article there that indicated that they were giving it to Palin to use (they’re HUGH Palin for Pres supporters). 1 of their articles from 9/16 is below.

September 16, 2010
The Cocktail Party vs. The Tea Party: ideas for a series
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We think we have an effective tool to use against the GOP establishment in calling it “The Cocktail Party”.

One way for us to illustrate all that’s corrosive, septic, and moribund about the GOP establishment and Romney Republicans is to contrast them directly with the Tea Party itself.

Hence, Cocktail Party vs. Tea Party as a running series here on HillBuzz.

So, help us think of good contrasts to run. Here’s a general idea..and just imagine the graphics we can create with all the material that is out there:

* The Cocktail Party is interested only in its own self-promotion…while the Tea Party is impassioned to save America, defend the Constitution, and promote patriotism.

* The Cocktail Party is comprised of blue-blazer-wearing, soggy cucumber-and-mayonnaise-sandwich eating Romney Republican country club bluebloods…while the Tea Party is made up of regular Americans, from all walks of life, who have had all they are going to take from the out of touch establishment.

* The Cocktail Party believes in the go-along-to-get-along approach to Washington and votes with Democrats whenever it wants to curry favor with the state media…while the Tea Party stares the media down, doesn’t shy away from the media’s insults, and demands the American public hold the media accountable for its bias.

As we’ve said for some time, the GOP establishment in this country is almost as dangerous to America as the Left itself. It’s time Americans took a hard look at WHY the Left was allowed to do all that it’s been doing…and turn an investigative eye towards the entrenched Republicans who’ve been in office, but have not been fighting the Left with everything they’ve got…they way they should have been…they way they WOULD have been if they really stood for something and cared more about the people who sent them to office than the applause and accolades the media heaps on their beloved pet RINOS.

http://hillbuzz.org/2010/09/16/the-cocktail-party-vs-the-tea-party-ideas-for-a-series/

Here’s a post from them today:

Palin 2012 emerging campaign message: Revive, Renew, Restore
I’ve said before that Governor Palin might just be the sharpest politician of our time…and her sense of branding is astonishingly pitch-perfect.

She’s now advancing an emerging 2012 campaign message: “Revive, Renew, Restore”.

What I think is most genius about this is the “R-branding” she’s doing very subtly…”R”, like “Republican”.

R-estore

R-enew

R-evive

(R), baby.

I also love that she’s picked up the “Cocktail Party” meme that we started here on HillBuzz and also calls them the go-along-to-get-along establishment gang, like she did in her speech the other night at the Bakersfield Business Conference:

She also took a few digs at the “cocktail party” — what she called the “go-along-to-get-along” “establishment” wing of the Republican party, saying “those defeated liberal Republicans, what did they do? Now they’re the ones running as a third-party candidate — and they’re redefining, I guess, the term ‘bitter clinger.’ “

The “Cocktail Party” meme is one that will destroy any chances Mittens Romney has remaining of being the “it’s his turn” establishment candidate in 2012. ”It’s his turn”, as dictated by the Cocktail Party, is just not going to cut the soggy cucumber-and-mayonnaise sandwiches anymore.

One of the reasons I believe in, and support, Governor Palin so much is that in her — AT LAST — I see a chance not only to smack the Left down hard but to take down the Cocktail Party GOP establishment that’s been the root of so many problems for all these years.

It is not going to be easy though. These guys are more entrenched than you would ever believe.

They love money. They adore wearing fancy suits. They savor every last cocktail party.

They’ve monopolized power for generations and are the sons of entitled fathers and grandfathers who have been passing these choice seats at the table down via Y-chromosomes to their heirs since anyone can remember.

Governor Palin, and Mamma Grizzlies everywhere, are a major threat to this primogeniture Cocktail Party racquet.

None of these people want to work hard and get real jobs after they lose their perks and privileges.

That’s why they hate the Tea Party so much…the Tea Party is the end of the Cocktail Party…which is the end of life as they know it for all these guys.

To that, I say: Run, Sarah, Run!

Revive! Renew! Restore!
http://hillbuzz.org/2010/10/09/palin-2012-emerging-campaign-message-revive-renew-restore/