Posted on 01/12/2010 12:04:40 PM PST by EveningStar
...I am afraid Sarah Palin is going to harm herself unintentionally over this tea party convention in Nashville...
Let me be blunt: charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel and lodging to go to a “National Tea Party Convention” run by a for profit group no one has ever heard of sounds as credible as an email from Nigeria promising me a million bucks if I fork over my bank account number...
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Correct. And the author has not said that she's the one charging for the event.
I smell concern trolls.
Admittedly she is no HW Bush, Bob Dole, or John McCain, but she can definitely win the Republican nomination and be the Republican candidate for President.
I hope he's alright...
-PJ
Usually, of course you need to scare up the appearances too. If you’re willing to do 2 or 3 supermarket openings a week you can make a living as the “I had a line in that episode” guy. It’s better to have a recurring minor or full fledged guest star role, then you can get a couple grand and maybe spend a couple weekends a year not at a convention.
The author is not accusing Palin of charging. Can’t you read?
So I don’t get why Sarah is somehow being blamed for this. She can’t control what an event does. If they want to charge money and people have a beef with that, complain to THEM
Wait a sec. Where was all the faux outrage when the former event was being planned in San Antonio by a group of shady tea partyers whom we know very little about, etc etc?
Their prices were actually more than $500.00 per person, and they were definitely in over their heads.
The Nashville group are the ones who have been behind a whisper campaign to discredit the first group.
Of course!
The small thinking by Erick Erickson and some other Red Staters ignores the fact that conservatives are in a major war against leftist socialist Democrats who are determined to destroy America.
This war effort needs from our side:
1) a charismatic popular national leader,
2) a helluva lot of money — as in a billion dollars,
3) focus and committment to WIN, not to be an also ran liberal Republican,
4) a helluva lot of support from moderate conservatives rather than just the extreme right.
Criticizing $500 fees and, eventually, $500 per plate dinners is one of the ways small thinking conservatives will again clutch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Agree. . .even the Demrats figured that one out. They changed the entire face of their Party without leaving it. We need more decent and authentic 'R's. . .not a new 'independent' Party. .
Agree. . .even the Demrats figured that one out. They changed the entire face of their Party without leaving it. We need more decent and authentic 'R's. . .not a new 'independent' Party. .
I smell fear and loathing by the GOP establishment.
Oops, guess I only skipped that sentence. $500 could be a bit much, it’s not really a professional convention, but it’s not really an entertainment convention either. Of course if people want to go what the heck.
Yeah, he’s not accusing her of charging, but he’s saying she might be ruining herself unintentionally, which is a ridiculous argument
Palin should attend both CPAC and the Nashville Tea Party Convention.
As for the $500 entrance fee for the Tea Party Convention, the TPs are all about supporting free markets. If the price is too steep for you, then don’t attend. Keep in mind, attending CPAC is expensive as well.
what a woman sarah palin is, doing what God tells her to do with no regard for herself. It would seem that some people do not want a conservative party. A good strong party rquires money, especially a party that threatens the evil opposition we face today. GO SARAH! I will be glad to contribute aby time!
When individual rights (for you AND other individuals) are protected in law, the practice of free market capitalism is as moral as it gets. ... and I bet she could easily get more than $500 per!
“As appearance fees go $500 is basically nothing, local celebrities get $500 appearance fees, died in the episode teaser Star Trek extras get $500 appearance fees.”
I think you missed something. Sarah will get north of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS as an appearance fee.
The $500 is what is being charged the participants to ATTEND the convention - not counting transportaion.
From the article:
“The tea party movement was always about the unorganized masses of concerned, passionate Americans uniting together with a common voice to protest the direction of the country. From that passion, others have sought to make money off the tea party movement. Some have done it for good. Many have not. And more and more we are seeing some people rise up to claim the mantle of “leader” of the tea party movement. Many of us who have been around for a while just want to know who the heck these so called leaders are.
The tea party “leaders”, if there are any, are actively at work in their home towns changing things one letter to the editor, one contribution to a candidate, and one protest at a time. They are not on bus tours profiting off the hard work and sometimes the names of others (some also on the bus with no pay) headed to Nashville licking their lips at the $500.00 per person payments coming in to their for profit company.”
This hits the nail on the head. These folks are PROFITEERS, and stand to make hundreds of thousands from attendees. This is NOT in the Tea party spirit.
True TP folks are not in this for the money. Lord knows I’m not.
And btw, anyone who tells you he is the “leader” of the TP movement is a self-aggrandizing LIAR. Individual groups will have leaders - they must to stay cohesive - but their are no leaders on any large scale - despite the Left’s attempts to portray some nefarious character or other as the true leader of the movement.
Well, I don’t know the organization, but let me speak to one issue.
This article makes it a big issue that this is a “for profit” organization.
Well, under the tax laws, a “not for profit” organization isn’t allowed to run a political rally. The left gets away with it all the time, with the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and the like. But a conservative non-profit ain’t gonna be allowed to get involved in politics. And this Tea Party convention is all about politics.
So, of course it’s not a non-profit organization. It can’t be.
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