Tea partiers attack convention

Politico ^ | 2/6/10 | Kenneth Vogel

[Nosterrex]

Tea partiers attack convention

[mojo114]

Understood and agree, you understand I included others on the Ping.

[Nosterrex]

Why do you have to be such a jackass? Thanks for the information. It seems that you want to discourage people from supporting the Tea Party or Palin. If you are an example of tea party members, I want nothing to do with it.

[Gargantua]

Well, now, since you're obviously a really bright, inquisitive type, you've surely thought this line of logic through in a very thorough fashion, like any very bright, inquisitive individual would.

So, we've all heard about the $500+ fee every one of the attendees paid to go to this first-ever meeting of The Tea Party. It raises the very obvious question... to whom did they pay this fee? Exactly who or what did they make the checks out to? You don't remember anybody being appointed or elected to head the movement. You have no knowledge of any lead organization for the movement.

I guess that must mean that the attendees just wrote out the checks, and left that part blank, huh? However, someone had to sign the check that paid Palin. All checks must be signed, right?

Now there's another problem. Exactly who or what signed that check to Sarah? You don't remember anybody being appointed or elected to head the movement. You have no knowledge of any lead organization for the movement.

Not as a slight against you, but are you still feeling all smug and self-satisfied with your clever little "trip-me-up" question? Or are you starting to figure out that you might have decided to piss on the wrong fire hydrant, pup?

Inquiring minds want to know. Illuminate us, genius.

;-/

[Judith Anne]

She is not keeping the speaking fee, she is donating it right back. See upthread.

[mojo114]

Please give me more insight on your post.
I am a member of the tea party movement and Sarah is my favorite.
So..explain.

[Gargantua]

Actually, Sarah was contracted through the D.C. media firm that does all her domestic bookings, "Washington News Corp." or something like that. All Sarah did was tell them that she was available and would love to give the keynote address, and then donated her fee back to the Tea Party.

The $500 fee to attend was not "compulsory," inasmuch as attending was at the option of the attendee. You only had to attend if you elected to pay the fee of your own free will. If you felt it wasn't worth it, you did not have to go.

Hey, are you related to Choo-Choo Charlie? He was an Engineer, too! What's your problem, Soldier? No enemy to fight, so now you pick on women?

;-/

[Prokopton]

This is NOT the way to run a grassroots party. I can fully understand why the little man feels left out of his own political movement. I attended several tea parties in the summer, and I never paid a cent to attend. This convention should be open to everyone and not only the ones that can afford it.

These people are not "running" the Tea Partiers. This was not a Tea Party convention as there is no Tea Party. This was a convention of Tea Party activists. The real grassroots movement is still reflected by those attending real Tea Parties, not those attending conventions of activists. If all of those people attending the "convention" disappeared, the Tea Party movement would continue just fine.

[Edison]

While you may not like the fact someone or group of people gave Sarah Palin a check tonight, she gave them back 10 times the amount in publicity and on air exposure. Who else would have warranted the same amount of on air time over the span of channels that covered her speech.

I think everyone ought to worry about their own paychecks and stop worrying about Palin’s.

[Gargantua]

Any mention of Sarah really draws the brain-dead imbeciles and self-servicing whack-jobs like maggots to warm hambuger, huh? She must be doing something right if the mere mention of her name makes the feces-lizards start squirming like night crawlers on my hook.

Just damn!

;-/

[mojo114]

I agree, just damn!
We continue to fight and we will win.

[mojo114]

I agree, just damn!
We continue to fight and we will win.

[CowboyJay]

there can be several arms and ways of coming together of a movement.

Well said, FRiend. I think a few of us feel like we're rowing upstream most of the time, and more than a little leery of having the rudder hijacked by the GOP brass again. But as long as we're all rowing the same direction, we don't have to row in time or even be in the same boat. With a little help from providence, we'll eventually get where we're going.

[montag813]

What is the deal with having to pay Palin $100,000 to speak? She should be paying the tea party.

People gladly paid for their tickets. I donated $2000 in the past 3 months: to Scott Brown, to SupportTheSEALs.com ads, to Marco Rubio. Why begrudge people willing to spend their own money, and why begrudge one of America's great leaders a speaking fee? Bill Clinton gets $50k minimum per speech, and he has nothing to say.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

What if George Washington required a bunch of money from a struggling movement for freedom from monarchical oppression?

General Washington required a bunch of money from the Continental Congress, they were constantly complaining about it, and often cabals within Congress tried to kick him out.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Only parties have conventions

Pretty funny seeing that business groups, fraternal organizations, school groups, and ideological organizations hold tens of thousand of conventions every year.

[Blogger]

Even if you give it right back? The criticism of Palin is misplaced here. She brought attention to the group that otherwise wouldn’t have received it. Even in controversy, she gets people talking about the things that they need to be talking about - things that the Media refuses to cover; and she does it in such a folksy manner that many can identify with what she is saying. Say what you will, they are not ignoring her and that kind of publicity would normally cost FAR more than $100,000! Now, lest you think I’m just a Sarah Zombie, I do have some criticism for her. She needs to lose McCain. I believe she is promoting him because of loyalty and because she believed what she said during the campaign; but, the man, in most cases, is NOT what we need in this nation. She is showing a lack of judgment by campaigning for him.

[Outlaw Woman]

Did you read the article? Nosterrex posted the 'article' and didn't author it. Chill

[Outlaw Woman]

And I agree with you Completely. The same type of ‘venue’ was held in St. Louis last nite. Cost around $200 to ‘see’ Glenn Beck, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum (couldn’t make it...inclement weather) and a couple of others. I’m all for making money but not to the point where everyday Americans, who STARTED this movement to begin with, are now being shut out. Further more, these people have the resources available to them while most of us have been hit hard in the past year. (just mho)

[DaveMSmith]

All the 'little man' needs is an internet connection and PJTV to watch the proceedings via streaming video. I donate to Free Republic because this is where I feel the real ideas for the movement are discussed.

Sarah Palin spoke not far from here in Salina KS on Friday night. It was a fund raiser and we couldn't afford to go but it was covered in the media. There are good conservatives on the primary ballot here that need support and it's wonderful she was here.

I suggest you look positively to apply yourself to make a difference to get conservatives in office at all levels of government rather than complaining about someone elses SUCESSFUL CONVENTION

[Man50D]

Pretty funny seeing that business groups, fraternal organizations, school groups, and ideological organizations hold tens of thousand of conventions every year.

Good point! My mind was focused strictly on conventions of a political nature.