Growing pains surround Tea Party Convention

Washington Times-Water Cooler ^ | 2/7/10 | Kerry Picket

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By Kerry Picket on Feb. 6, 2010 into Water CoolerEditSubscribe It appears Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher is not impressed with former vice presidential GOP candidate Sarah Palin. He attacked her Tea Party Convention speech this weekend. Mr. Wurzelbacher posted messages to his Twitter account with the following tweets.:

[RoseofTexas]

AHHH sure! Whatever! We are so divided that we managed to capture...what? 3 wins in the most RED of red liberal communist states....BAWAHAHHAHAHAHHA...yeah, keep thinking that!!! On to victory!

[rae4palin]

Oh NOOOOO! We’re doomed! Guess I’ll vote democrat.

[MNJohnnie]

Did anyone bother to check Joe's background or did they all just assume because he asked 0 a tough question he was a Conservative?

It is possible to dislike 0 and not be a Conservative

[RatsDawg]

“Palin’s speech does not represent the ‘Tea Party Movement’ it was a ‘GOP’ stump speech”

“The ‘Tea Party’ is an AMERICAN movement! Not party politics as usual!!”

Disagree with the first quote, agree 100% with the 2nd.

Wasn’t Joe out stumping for the GOP and the RINO John McCain in 2008?

[NonValueAdded]

Joe the Plumber is not a national leader, he’s just a guy who caught Obama in an unscripted moment. If Joe wants to speak about free enterprise and property rights, so be it. I’ll listen. But he is no one to follow, he is not transformative in the same vein as is Sarah. Look at Michael Reagan’s statement following her convention speech.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

"The 'Tea Party' is an AMERICAN movement! Not party politics as usual!!"

Unfortunately Joe, a "movement" by itself cannot nominate and elect candidates to national office. There HAS to be some sort of party structure upon which to base a successful campaign. It's just not going to happen by itself, just like Obama's election did not happen by itself.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

“Palin’s speech does not represent the ‘Tea Party Movement’ it was a ‘GOP’ stump speech”

In a perfect world, these two would be one and the same.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Twitter? Uh ... I spent my evening learning the fine art of "block". I was on #SaraPalin and was amazed at the POISON that I read there. More four-letter words than I knew existed. And it always tickles me when they start using adjectives and body parts. Anyway, it was fun "blocking" them ... made me feel better. But what was most interesting was looking over the people I was blocking (many have pictures) ... there was a definite demographic and I'll leave it at that. If Sarah pushes their buttons this hard, she must really be something special.

As for the Tea Party movement, Read the American Thinker's post today. Great article discussing the movement at "populist" but being careful to define that term. This, he said, is more like prohibition ... no clear leadership, but the people rallying around something they believed was right, but a few years later rallied again to repeal it ... that movement also "populist." The rallying point in this case for the Tea Parties is the Constitution. Democrats and Republicans are like Chevy's and Fords ... the Tea Parties are like fuel. They can make either "go fast" ... but the fuel has a "mind of its own" and makes a decision as to which vehicle to energize.

[SeattleBruce]

“It is possible to dislike 0 and not be a Conservative”

Right, that’s happening more and more these days. And besides, it’s not like Joe the Plumber has some corner on the Conservative movement...nor that we can’t disagree and have differing opionions on specific candidates...lol.

The RAT press...village idiots...gotta love ‘em...well, mebbe that’s too strong...;)