Posted on 03/26/2010 9:17:06 PM PDT by Libloather
Nevada tea party rally to draw angry crowds, scrutiny
MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer
Friday, March 26, 2010
ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tea party activists want to turn conservative anger over the health care overhaul into political muscle in November elections as they call thousands to the hardscrabble desert town that is home to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Sarah Palin is headlining the event Saturday in Searchlight, about 60 miles from Las Vegas, and a strong turnout could help affirm the popularity of the loosely organized tea party movement and build momentum against Reid and other Democratic candidates who backed health care reform.
The national media lens will be focused on the former mining town, sending images across the country. Some worry it has the potential for violence: Bricks have been hurled through Democrats' windows and at least 10 members of Congress who voted for the bill have received threats. In the run-up to the health care vote, racial epithets aimed at black members of Congress were heard at protests attended by at least some tea party members.
Some have even accused Palin of inciting violence after she urged supporters on the social networking site Twitter to: "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!"
"The tea party has one big challenge between now and November and that is policing itself," said Bill Whalen, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution and a speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush's 1992 campaign.
**SNIP**
Another unknown: a group calling itself the Tea Party of Nevada is behind candidate Scott Ashjian, but other activists have distanced themselves from him and the party. Ashjian's name on the ballot could split the Republican vote, benefiting Reid. A lawsuit is challenging his candidacy, and the Tea Party Express is running an ad against him.
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Some worry it has the potential for violence: Bricks have been hurled through Democrats’ windows and at least 10 members of Congress who voted for the bill have received threats. In the run-up to the health care vote, racial epithets aimed at black members of Congress were heard at protests attended by at least some tea party members.
I see he got all the talking points in, just surprised
he left out the protocols of the elders of zion.
I have no doubt there will be communists out to provoke violence. Everyone needs to keep their cool and not take the bait.
But this was funny:
Democrats and Reid's campaign plan to set up a hospitality tent in the parking lot of a Searchlight casino that will serve tea and doughnut holes.
Fitting, somehow...
The good news is, video cameras are everywhere, and the chances of Dems throwing a brick through their own window and blaming Tea Partiers is less than in years past.
Keep it clean, legal, and focused on the issues and then Give Harry Hell!
I had planned to attend, but because of an at home ‘emergency’ had to cancel my hotel reservations.
I hope they show the ‘constraint’ that the Tea Party members will surely exhibit.
(But, I have some doubts about the MSM)
Will there be any streaming video links to the event?
But he did include the brick thrown through a window 30 stories up, so give him SOME credit!
;D
Not sure. Youtube?
This guy could really screw things over.
Well I wonder why he is not spending time with his wife I mean after the accident or maybe it wasnt and accident
I heard he was a supporter of Harry and just a plant but I am not sure where I heard that
Not if the proper billboards are posted in time. (I would like to think our side can figure out stuff like this Reid ploy.)
Some major league team should sign up that brick thrower and put him in the starting rotation tomorrow!
Let me guess... this lib reporter “knows” the crowds will be angry because he’s already been told that SEIU is planning some street theater.
It's a bit difficult to be demonized as "evil" when you look like a Norman Rockwell gathering.
A Freeper wrote a vanity the other night looking for Searchlight on his way to Vegas.
Was that you?
If it was what was the area like?
I am curious after the Freeper (maybe you) asked how to find the TeaParty in Searchlight and is it just a big open space.
It was a rock not a brick. : )
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