Posted on 01/06/2010 6:42:26 PM PST by euram
Almost 1-1/2 years since she shook up American politics with her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is set to headline another landmark political event: the first-ever Tea Party Convention next month in Nashville, Tenn.
On its face, the gig would seem a step down for Ms. Palin, one of conservative America’s most popular and polarizing figures (not to mention major thorn in the side of the Obama White House).
But with an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll ranking a generic “Tea Party” as more popular than either Democrats or Republicans, and Palin herself rivaling the charming Mr. Obama in poll popularity, many experts see the Tea Party event as a potential milestone for a mounting, even transformational, force in US politics.
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Huzzah! I support this!
We shall see.......and if so you’ll hear from me.
Back in the 1770s there was a guy named Washington, who had something to do with how things actually got done.
I missed out on that as well, I don’t recall the Christian Science Monitor ever being much of anything.
“Sarah is your earthly redemption.”
Yes. Politically speaking she is our only hope of restoring this nation.
Indeed, but he wasn't in charge, nor did he "vet credentials". He was simply ONE of many leaders of that days "Tea Party" movement. And I would judge that in the earliest days of that movement that Samuel Adams' influence was far greater than Washington's. But he too was not "in charge" as you seem to mean.
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