Posted on 01/18/2010 9:20:55 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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The result, encouraged by ever-willing far-right agitators such as Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin, has been the creation of the so-called Tea-Party movement - named after the quintessentially American, anti-British, anti-taxes and anti-big government Boston Tea Party revolt of 1773. Early next month, none other than the 45-year-old Palin - an ambitious lady whom you dismiss lightly at your peril - will reportedly earn a six-figure sum as the keynote speaker at the first conference of a new political entity called the “Tea Party Nation” (TPN), at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville.
“We believe in limited government, free speech, the Second Amendment [the right of Americans to carry guns], our military, secure borders and our country,” is TPN’s one-sentence manifesto. These words are well-chosen triggers to capture the 57.4 per cent of discontented Americans who think that their country is on the “wrong track” (as opposed to only 35.5 per cent who think it's on the right one).
If this sounds like a joke, it isn't. Palin, usually mindful of what she perceives as her need to cultivate the Republican establishment if she is to achieve the unthinkable and become the party's presidential candidate in 2012, turned down an invitation to speak at the more conventional Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington.
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I got to the part where it was Bush’s fault, and quit reading.
“Far right agitators” LOL! They think everyone is like them.
Bob Beckel was on Hannity tonight saying the Tea Party movement has little to do with the overall dissatisfaction, including what’s happening in Mass, and called them/us “baggers”. They forget...it was the Boston Tea Party. If Brown wins then it will be a nice symmetry.
Yeah, they don’t get it.
Sarah Palin poses a danger to liberals and RINOs, which are essentially the same thing.
Some people aren’t ready to write off this country just yet.
“I got to the part where it was Bush’s fault, and quit reading.”
You could have stopped at the COVER. What’s with the two lipsticks coming out of her head, like devils’ horns?!
I heard him too.
The good news is, those 2 very tough conservative ladies(I forget their names), simply took him apart (apparently they started their attacks on him even before they came on the air). Even Sean Hannity had to remark, that he'd known Bob Beckel for a long time, and had never seen him so miserable.
“They forget...it was the Boston Tea Party”
Ironic isn't it?
You are right.
I’ve said for the past year....this is 1775 all over again.
The more these un-American elitist left-wing bastards attack Palin, the better she must be.
The is the Anti-Obama particle which sends the left into hysterics.
She’s driving the libs absolutely NUTS, and I LOVE IT!
As usual .. these people don’t know what they’re talking about .. but it’s good for a laugh.
The real danger is to the elitists and they know it. The good old boy big gov knew it in Alaska and they know it now in DC. The rest is just smoke and mirrors.
” So who is leading the Republicans these days? The answer: nobody.”
Right. It’s being prodded from the bottom up into doing what it should have been doing all along.
I dunno why but in that whole article nothing pi$$ed me off more than the above statement.
Ha Ha a regular bloody riot.Pecker!
“.... if she is to achieve the unthinkable and become the party’s presidential candidate in 2012, turned down an invitation to speak at the more conventional Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington.”
IMHO she’s doing the right thing by omitting CPAC from her itinerary. CPAC has become the hangout for RINOs and DIABLOs (Democrats In All But Name Only). The only thing she would do by speaking at their gig would be to give THEM some semblence of Conservative Cred, which they do not deserve. And it would dilute HER cred in the process.
Not to quibble with you, but (just for future reference) DIABLO is Democrats In All But Label Only.
Jut FYI....
CA....
I'll bet that's news to the thousands of independent mostly apolitical regular Joe and Jane Americans who've participated in them as a way of showing their disgust for a ballooning and freedom-stifling big government.
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