Posted on 02/06/2010 6:23:54 PM PST by Nosterrex
Tea partiers attack convention
What are you blathering on about? If she can make $100,000 (and give it back to the movement by the way), she should. It has nothing to do with conservatism or non-conservatism. It has to do with having a headliner keynote your convention. It’s called Capitalism - of the best kind. Make what you can and donate to charity what you want to.
“That’s total unfair, it should have been held in Kansas, closer for everyone.”
What a moronic statement.
Calculate the population within a days drive of Nashville, with that of Kansas.
Nashville is a good day’s driving from the east coast.
I should know. I was from Memphis. We took 2 days driving to the beaches in the Carolinas.
Tennessee is also a great Republican state.
We did not even vote for the Goreon moron, and it is his home state!
“Nashville, darn near on the Atlantic Ocean as seen from Colorado.”
When I grew up in Colorado and California my Mom showed me the map, pointing at Ohio.
She said the people back east call that “the midwest.”
Both she and my Dad said this country has a lopsided eastern orientation, in many ways.
That was true in the 1950s mentioned aboe, before we had major league baseball.
Now California and Texas are ranked number one and two in population, yet the media and politics remain easter dominateed.
“Who is this interviewer?!”
He is the the organizer of this event and the person cutting Sarah’s check.
She’s donating it to charity or part of it, I heard.
I hope she keeps some for herself. She deserves all she can get.
Why not. Good ole Mitt, Huck, and others get paid why not Sarah? And she isn’t keeping it anyway and right now she doesn’t even need it. The Tea Party convention wasn’t charging any more than our own Freeper convention was. So what’s the big deal? I do believe we should not just focus on events that are pricey. The best way is to rent a stadium or something and charge a low admission fee and have people set up booths and stuff. Make it a fun time for all where people can get out and meet one another. It doesn’t always have to be about corporate style ways of doing things. I’m not offended by it though and we shouldn’t be fighting each other because we didn’t get a free ticket to the show.
Yes, it is pathetic. Lots of trolls and Sarah haters.
It's called illustrating the absurd by being absurd.
The idea that somehow Sarah should speak for free, or that $450 is too much for a venue like they have is absurd, and I responded in kind.
Personally, even though I couldn't afford the travel expenses and the ticket price I'm prefectly happy with how they are doing this.
I just think that, if you believe in something and you have the means to afford it, then you will help a struggling movement by giving what you can. Unlike libtards, I don't think it should be compulsory. But, to charge a forum that is losing money $100,000 (and this convention lost money) that was responsible for the rightward shift of our political parties is just shameful if you believe in it.
Some disagree and you resort to name calling. Reminds me of some on the Obamabus.
Great mentions! /sarcasm> Mitt and Huck are not good examples of those who stand for conservatism. What if George Washington required a bunch of money from a struggling movement for freedom from monarchical oppression?
Why don’t you research it? I was pretty sure she is donating the money right back to them.
I happen to love that she can command these kinds of speaking fees.
Have you even been to a tea party? I've been to several. There are some bills that have to be paid. The one at 912, which I attended, had many logistics to manage.
Frankly, I'm very committed to the movement, and I have a high degree of suspicion for those who seek to undermine it by pretending to be some kind of insider.
From where I was sitting, watching at PJTV, it was a wonderful event.
Yup, all four of the protesters were out there.
I could mention others, they all make a good deal of money conservative and otherwise. This also was not a non profit convention. It was a for profit enterprise. Palin has spoken for free at many non profit events.
The convention was in Tennessee. Who knew that state was on the east coast.
They did not have to have Palin but Palin did get them covered on live television.
Palin herself is raising funds to give to conservative politics, this money goes into that, why should she have made a 100,000 dollar donation to the tea party convention for them to disperse, rather than doing it herself?
yawn......zzzzzzzzzzzz
ho hum conquer and divide liberal media tactics
I didn’t mean you.
Wasn’t signaling anyone in particular, so I wasn’t name calling.
My aren’t we touchy.
Yawn...
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