Posted on 04/16/2011 5:08:26 PM PDT by balls
Four potential Republican presidential hopefuls showed up, but the turnout for the New Hampshire Tea Party tax day rally was rather tepid.
On a brilliant spring day in Concord, perfect for a rally, only about 300 came to protest taxes and the Obama Administration, a far cry from the robust rallies held ahead of the 2010 elections.
Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santorum — who have declared they are exploring a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 — and Herman Cain and Buddy Roemer — who are considered potential hopefuls — joined state politicians in an attempt to get the crowd fired up.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.reuters.com ...
The Tea Party's fire has gone out in the Northeast.
I think it might have something to do with the weather. It’s horrible in Virginia, Maryland and on the east coast in general. Don’t know how it is New Hampshire though or Boston.
The tea party is being infected with RINOs from the top down. (Cain excepted)
It’s not our fire. I heard nothing about a rally in Concord, and I was actually looking for announcements.
Besides that, it was an actual work day for us productive citizens here. Not to mention I was personally busy getting taxes in the mail.
Its been nasty here in Michigan today. Rain, gusty winds, and temps only made it up into the low 50s today.
Didn't make it to the second sentence, eh? :-)
On a brilliant spring day in Concord, perfect for a rally [...]
Why believe what a Reuter’s writer thinks about the tea party?
It’s the election cycle. People with real lives can’t be as full-time politically active as union thugs “protesting” on company time and various smatterings of shiftless leftists who have nothing to live for than participating in the destruction of our country.
I wouldn’t worry about low turnout in April in a non-election year.
Not too mention the fact that Pawlenty was there. Pawlenty. I wouldn’t step out my front door to watch Pawlenty give a speech out on my sidewalk.
Like i’d drive in town on a Friday afternoon at rush hour to see T Paw..... puhleeze!
Crappy timing for working Americans!
Who ever organized these two events needs to buy a clue.
Saturday would have been a wholel ‘nother kettle of Cod..fish!
A disadvantage of a "grassroots, no leader" approach, I guess.
Who wrote this crap? Are they talking about Concord, New Hampshire? Today? The day with cloudy skies; the day with temps in the mid-30's...the day with the biting winds out of the east off the ice-cold Atlantic? That Concord?
Oh, yeah...perfect for a rally. Then there were the lackluster candidates...the Tea Party's fire has gone out? Not really...probably didn't see any reason to go out and freeze their ass off...
If Palin were there, I would have been there. Probably not for anyone else.
We have not gone away. We’ll be there when the time comes.
“It’s not the Tea Party that’s tepid it’s the candidates.”
I think it might be both.
The music didn't die the day the Dread Pigs only got 94 ticket buyers for their spring concert.
....I have a job!
Some of these Tea Party organizers are so into the Chamber of Commericite "Let's Make a Deal" World, that they forget that half their numerical support comes from "gotta-be-at-work-all-day" people.
Never mind...this was YESTERDAY, which WAS a nice day. The article gave me the impression that the rally was today, which was and is currently miserable. Concord is the capitol; loaded with SEIU thugs and state workers...not TP country by a long shot.
It was a Friday, taxes are due Monday, and the lineup was strictly minor league. Pawlenty may be a major leaguer, but not the team leader. (Good V.P.)
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