Erick Erickson starts his latest post, “I swore I was going to keep my mouth shut on this, but I keep getting emails from people along the lines of “if you don’t say it, who will?” Yeah, I guess I have become that guy.”
And here at Balloon Juice, well…
To further quote Mr. Erickson:
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.
…
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.
Even before his massively successful game-changing Narnia-referencing leadership of several dozen Red State Trike Farce Strike Force minions to send rock salt to a Maine Congresswoman just before driveway-clearing season, Erick Erickson was the kind of leader who could organize a super-select registration-limited Red State Gathering…
Tonight, we’ll hear from Roy Blunt, Pat Toomey, Jim DeMint, and Rick Perry. Then we’ll watch a special presentation of John Ziegler’s new movie. Tomorrow, Tom Price, Karen Handel, a super secret special guest, Ken Cuccinelli, Michael Williams, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Nikki Haley join us.
We’re also going to do two workshops. One will be on becoming better online activists and the other on being better offline activists.
… and he brought them to Atlanta. In August. For a mere $50!
For some reason, I am reminded of how some people “organize” their university Student Activities Group and a handful of fellow geeks for a couple thousand dollars and the chance to meet the guy who wrote “Trouble with Tribbles”, while other people manage to turn their passionate concern for the underrated genre artforms into something like the San Diego Comic Con. Possibly thirty-plus years as an out and proud geek may have damaged my perspective on other folks’ enthusiasms.
I have been waiting for TBogg’s take on Erick the Red’s new crusade, but it’s still early on the left coast. So I leave you with his masterful commentary upon the 2009 Atlanta event, including the Big Reveal of the super-secret special guest…
beltane
Sarah Palin is herself as credible as an email from a Nigerian banker. Poor Erik doesn’t get that Palin is not “unintentionally harming herself”, but that she is in with the grifters looking to cash in on the teabagging fools.
Incertus
Funny how times change. Marco Rubio could make time for Erickson, but he’s avoiding the Tea Party convention like it’s going to be filled with gay couples who want to adopt at risk kids (which is still illegal in Florida, pending some legal action). He sees how muhc staying power they’re likely to have, I think.
cleek
unorganized ?
what a stupid bunch of saps.
Ripley
Unintentional self-harm is the number one sign of a personality disorder. (Numbers two and three are both wetsuits.)
jl
I think he meant:
“The tea party movement was always about the corporate sponsors arranging the appearance of the unorganized masses of concerned, passionate Americans uniting together with a common voice ”
Edit: Ooops. I forgot to put ‘clumsily’ before ‘arranging’. My apologies.
Keith
Why would I pay $500 to see Sarah Palin at a Tea Party Convention when, according to the radio ad I heard today, I can pay $20 for my entire family to see Sarah…plus Zig Ziglar, Rudy Giuliani, Colin Powell, and Lou Holtz?
handy
Wait, I’m confused. Why does Erick have a problem with the Tea Party people exercising their Free Market™ right to bilk people out of as much money as they possibly can? Don’t all good conservatards believe that?
Annie
@beltane:
LOL…You are so right. I think I would rather give me money to the Nigerian.
KDP
Beat me to it! I was crafting a response to the good General in the last thread and while researching the RedState gathering, you wrote this post.
Personally, like Handy, I think Erick envies the entrepreneurial spirit of the Tea Party convention organizers. Why didn’t he think of turning his gathering into a moneymaker instead of staying all purist and selective?
mr. whipple
Becuase it’s not going to him. Now, if he got the $500, it would be totally different.
Delia
Well, it’s certainly a good thing someone is worried about Our Sarah out there all alone among those big city slickers waiting to take advantage of an honest down-home virginal girl like her. I just hope Erick can make it through and defend her before it’s too late.
/a very naive wingnut
calling all toasters
Does anyone else think that the Tea Tantrum convention is an EST seminar in disguise?
Keith G
@Annie:
Yeah, but he probably just blow it on new underware.
danimal
Methinks the Tea Party Movement is going to be an eternal source of merriment. Unintentionally, of course.
Svensker
TBogg makes me laugh.
General Winfield Stuck
@Delia:
One thing about our Sarah Serendipity. She is showing some talent for sniffing out the greenbacks and laying the flim flammery on dumb rubes like Erick and the wingnut faithful in hopes Sarah is their Ronnie Raygun with long curls. She won’t go home empty handed from the tea bag shindig. You can bet your mooseburger on that. For Sarah, from here on out, it’s nothing but Ben Franklin’s pulled out of that hat.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Shorter Erik Eriksonsonsonson: Dear Rick Scott, give me a cut of the take or I’ll continue to whine.
Emo Pantload (fka Studly)
@Keith:
Zig Ziglar’s still alive? He must be, what?, 102 if a day?
Edited to add: Interesting that Barbie Spice *didn’t* accept CPAC’s invite, but instead declined without supplying a reason.
jl
I read they are complaining about ‘liberals’ attacking their sites, linking their pages to p r 0 n sites and suchlike.
That is fine, but it only goes so far. If T**B*gg*rs are still trying to use Tom Paine as a historical spokesman, I certainly do hope that an enterprise hacker DOES NOT post Paine’s Agrarian Justice on their website. I say this only because it sounds like a job for some of the more, er, discrete and skilled ‘puter jock B-Jers out there. Not that I am actually suggesting such a thing, I post this only as a warning not to try to commit such an bad and wicked and unGodly act.
From the social security administration Agrarian Justice page:
“n the winter of 1795-96 Thomas Paine wrote his last great pamphlet, “Agrarian Justice.” The pamphlet was first published in French in Paris. An English edition was brought out in 1797.
In this pamphlet Paine advocated the creation of a social insurance scheme for the aged and for young people just starting out in life. The benefits were to be paid from a national fund accumulated for this purpose. The fund was to be financed by a 10% tax on inherited property. A tax on inherited property was used due to Paine’s general philosophy of property rights. Although he based his social insurance scheme on a line of argument that might sound quaint in the present era, in other respects his plan was quite modern, recognizing the problem of income security for the elderly, and the desirability of creating a national fund for this purpose.”
The full text of Paine’s pamphlet. (Note: this is the link at the bottom of the page to the text. DO NOT click on the link, for you might be tempted to use the text for malicious purposes).
http://www.ssa.gov/history/tpaine3.html
Morbo
Fuck you, Jon Stewart, if you don’t make a citizens’ arrest of John Yoo.
Annie
@Keith G:
Yes, but unlike Erick the Red, at least the Nigerian has something between his legs…
catclub
In the fine tradition of Klan High Muckety mucks selling the rubes sheets with holes for a pretty penny back in the twenties.
And banners! And Sashes! Pageant queens know their sashes!
General Winfield Stuck
@General Winfield Stuck:
She will however, go home empty headed. Same as she came.
jl
Teabaggers, Teabaggers, TBogg, TBogger, T**B*gg*r. Hmmm…. Is this whole thing another DougJ spoof? Or is DougJ really part of the great, vast and sinister TBogg spoof? Could this end up something like the last scene in Time Bandits?
Will some one stop the TBggrs from touching the concentrated evil at their convention? I hope so. before it’s too late.
Bubblegum Tate
@General Winfield Stuck:
Oh, no doubt–the teabaggers are the goose that lays golden eggs for her (isn’t she supposedly commanding a six-figure prattling–oh, excuse me, “speaking”–fee for the Teabag Convention?); she will forever take money out of their pockets with vague promises of maybe someday running for something–a notion that gets them all hot and bothered. I, for one, find it all to be quite funny.
TR
OT, but the Daily Show is crushing it tonight. Terrific segment on the whole “conservatives are better on national security” b.s.
And here comes John Yoo for an interview.
Annie
@General Winfield Stuck:
LOL….kisses to Charlie.
Mike
I suppose it’s appropriate that Erickson’s twitter name is Ew Erickson.
General Winfield Stuck
@jl: Nah, Dougj is now full time Broder sleuth and foil. No time for spoofing.
Keith G
@Annie: A bit over-cooked for some.
KDP
Do the National Tea Party Convention organizers not have a copy editor? Or do they think that this tortuous phrasing make the organizers seem more ‘populist.’
It hurts my head to try to parse meaning from their content.
Apparently, John Yoo makes John Stewart’s head hurt.
jl
@General Winfield Stuck: Then DougJ is in danger of becoming a pompous prissy hysterical young man. A dreadful fate.
SpotWeld
Acutally I have met the author of The Trouble with Tribbles” (briefly at a sci-fi con in Boston). Very nice guy, signed my copy of The Man Who Folded Himself
jl
Are the teabaggers sufficiently self-aware to realize that they are not capable of ‘utmost discretion’? That may save them, if they are not already hopelessly drawn in by a sincere and pious saluation from a fellow ‘Christian’.
General Winfield Stuck
@Annie: Consider it done. He is such a well behaved affectionate little guy. Still can’t believe my good luck.:-)
wasabi gasp
Erick is an interesting guy. I look forward to one day having a conversation with him over black tea and potato weevils.
Chuck Butcher
I suppose it really was asking too much for Stewart to cut Yoo really deep and kick his entrails across the room.
kommrade reproductive vigor
@KDP: They do. Unfortunately her name is Sarah Palin.
Christ, I wouldn’t treat a dog that had eaten my cats the way those bastards treat the English language.
DonBelacquaDelPurgatorio
$500 for a tea party ticket is hilarious enough.
What is really a bellyshaker is the idea that Tea Party can become an actual viable political force in this country. The national candidates at the last poll rollcall spent hundreds of millions of dollars getting their messages out.
Can you imagine these cheap Tea Party bastards raising that kind of money?
Heh.
I gave till it hurt. And paid some serious taxes too. That’s why those cheesy-assed trailer park dwellers will never really beat me, I am not cheap. I am a lot of things, but I ain’t cheap.
Nylund
Sarah Palin just wants to cash. Cold hard cash. She has no interest in leading or governing. Quitting her job so she could cash in with the book, speaking engagements, and Fox News job was clear enough for most.
The real tell will be if Bristol Palin’s new “political consultant” corporation (where she is the sole employee) starts collecting consulting paychecks from Sarah’s PAC.
Personally, my mind starts playing “hey hey, dirty, gimmee all yo’ money!” whenever I see her face. She’s a grifter through and through. Palin and simple.
Comrade Luke
Way too pass the buck to Congress, Yoo Fuck.
Royston Vasey
Do you remember Erick The Unready and his Operation Leper from Nov ’08? With BONUS coffee mugs!!
Comrade Luke
Classic: Yoo describes the scenario where you’re faced with questioning the #3 guy in Al Qaeda.
WTF is it with the #3 guy in Al Qaeda? Haven’t we killed that guy like 10 times already?
trollhattan
@#12 calling all toasters
Hah! That brings back a flood of memories. Wonder what happened to good old Werner? I had a few friends who went to the one-day EST thingie in the Bay Area and became acolytes but being 1. a slacker and 2. cheap I wasn’t tempted. After hearing the stories I certainly was ready for this.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078227/
One key difference between EST and the teabaggers: going to a teabag “seminar” isn’t a path to getting laid. Having watched a couple of their gettogethers at the state capitol I will opine that’s a good thing for mankind.
BOB would have been perfect for EST.
trollhattan
Everything I know about “Erick” I know from his Colbert appearance last week, but I have to ask: “c” or “k” dude? Make up your damn mind! You need to have a Norweigan kick you around until you drop a consonant.
arguingwithsignposts
I haven’t read the thread yet, but am I the only one who thinks this:
Reminds me of this:
???
handy
@Comrade Luke:
#3 AQ guy must be a by-committee position.
jl
I am too disoriented right now to know whether this if off topic or not.
Politico announces that the Democrats need to launch a PR campaign to ‘save’ Harry Reid:
To save Reid, Democrats plan to deal race card back to GOP
Dems launch defense to save Reid
Politico
Jake Sherman, Mike Allen – Mon Jan 11, 5:05 am ET
No link, but it is the current top story on the Yahoo news box.
Poor Harry. But, this does give a good cover for his probable upcoming defeat. Good News for Democrats!
Elie
@General Winfield Stuck:
She has to generate funds for her plastic surgery maintenance and upkeep. That face stuff start heading south pretty quickly once past 40…. Also running gets a lot harder on the joints,etc.
Unfortunately for her, they may be able to maintain the physical but her cognitive functionality is definitely going to go down pretty quickly is my guess (seeing that its not so hot, right now).
She is a screwball and her fun times are limited. I predict, as I have before, she will self destruct in a pretty interesting way in the next few years…she is not a gal who just makes friends everywhere she goes and once the slide really starts, a lot of folks will pile on…
handy
@jl:
Maybe old Harry should just be put to pasture already. I honestly don’t care enough to see if the guy survives considering his spinelessness as Majority Leader.
Martin
I think Sully might be worth reading again during the Prop 8 trial. The liveblog from today’s hearing was pretty interesting reading.
gizmo
Fricking idiots. The Teabag movement was started by a Republican lobbying shop in Sacramento. Here’s the story-
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/majority_of_tea_party_groups_spending_went_to_gop.php?ref=fpa
ds
@handy:
Reid isn’t any worse than any other Senate majority leader in recent times, except maybe Bill Frist.
It’s not like the House, where the Speaker really does have a lot of power over individual members. If Reid had been a major hard ass it wouldn’t have made a difference.
Still, I don’t see the point of electing the Democratic leadership from swing states. Why didn’t they learn a lesson from Daschle?
Pick a leader from a safe seat so that he or she can focus on the job of pushing an agenda forward, without having to worry about their reelection prospects every other second.
The Republic of Stupidity
@Ripley:
What makes you think this was unintentional?
And I’m afraid to ask what number four is…
Sly
I was never curious enough to find out that the super secret special guest was at Erickson’s Carnival of the Damned. That it was actually Liz Cheney explains why, I suppose.
But this gave me a chuckle:
mandarama
Oh good Lord…why did it have to be Nashville? Like we’re not suffering enough from the crazy in this state.
asiangrrlMN
@kommrade reproductive vigor: Damn. You beat me to it. I had to skim the paragraphs because trying to read them made my head hurt.
Erick the son of Erick is a sad and pathetic little man (and I do mean little).
JGabriel
Erick, Son of Himself (It’s Chinatown, Jake):
(Pause.)
You mean like the rest of the GOP?
(Pause.)
Bwahahahahahahah!
.
asiangrrlMN
@mandarama: My twin. I command that you infiltrate and take pictures.
Sly
On second thought, maybe Ewick is simply confusing “unorganized” with “clueless“.
General Winfield Stuck
@ds:
It’s a leftover from the long shadow of fear cast over dems from Reagan. All the center-right nation claptrap and Reagan democrats. It doesn’t have to be a dem from New England, but at least a blue state, like say Illinois. Maybe Durbin will advance from his assistant leader pos if, and when Reid loses his reelection. It really is dumb as dirt having leadership from Red, or even purple states. They are compromised, and especially when they are up for reelection, like Daschle was, and now Reid.
But the whole Reid is spineless thing is hogwash imo. His making it easier for wingnuts to filibuster without cloture votes is an error in tactics to save time, and you are right Senate leaders don’t have the kind of power like the House ones. Plus, like Daschle, Reid is just terrible on teevee and general optics of being tough and generating passion amongst the base. Durbin would be better without being overly aggressive, I think.
asiangrrlMN
@Sly: It’s exactly the same thing as Reid using antiquated language to accurately describe the cultural climate in America today! Except, with misspellings and bad grammar.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: All I can think of now is “I’m more of a man than you’ll ever be and more of a woman than you’ll ever get!” Although it wouldn’t shock me if Erick were on the Larry Craig Hidden Sexuality express.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Exactly! I could say the same thing, myself. I have more balls than he does! How you doing? I hope your day was better than yesterday.
And, I think of him as asexual more than anything else.
GregB
Any chance that Messrs Halperin and Heilman are working on a blow by blow description of the sleazy swinging cuckoldry of Sen. John Ensign or the personal requests of known prostitute patron Sen. Vitter?
-G
asiangrrlMN
@GregB: Don’t hold your breath, GregB. Where’s the profit in that?
Mark S.
Man, it’s actually worse than Erick describes it. Not only does it cost $550 to attend the teabagger convention, you’ve got to shell out another $350 to see Mooseburger in action. None of this, of course, counts hotel and airfare.
And there’s a 75% chance that Sarah will cancel at the last minute.
mr. whipple
A small price to get to see the little starbursts, live.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Asexual Republicans just means haven’t been caught with the wetsuit or the dildo yet. I guess you could say there really is no such animal since it just doesn’t fit with the whole sexual obsession meme they like to run with.
Today was better than yesterday relatively. Tomorrow is where things might get interesting. Payroll is due tomorrow and I can’t get into the system yet. Yeah gonna be fun times.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: OK, yeah, but…seriously, who would want to fuck Erick the son of Erick or Jonah Goldberg or Douthat or…George Will? I mean, seriously? Isn’t that a boner-killer for you to contemplate doing any or all of the above?
Good luck tomorrow.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: You ready for a giggle? I took some online test once that told me I should date someone more conservative than me. Of course I couldn’t help but notice that my result was two clicks away from as far left as the scale goes, so I guess I’m cursed there. I have my limits though. The Dawg is quite a bit more conservative than me, but he hated Sarah Palin. I don’t think he voted this last time around.
Jules
Palin is Huckabee in a skirt.
Thin-skinned, nothing is ever their fault, all about the cash, ethically challenged and now both on FOX.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Ha! Yeah, I bet the same test would say the same thing about me. It’s kinda hard to be much more of a lefty than I am without going full-tinfoil hat about it.
How is the Dawg?
P.S. A friend of mine adopted another purebred GSD (rescue dog) and sent me a pic. GORGEOUS!
Yutsano
@Jules: Not to mention both did quite sociali$t things for their respective states. She expanded the Alaskan Permanent Fund, he expanded healthcare to all children in Arkansas. Yet now they’re both wingnut ideologues even though they KNOW it doesn’t work when applied in practice. They’re both hustlers for wingnut dollars.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: PUPPEH!! And MUST SHARE PICS NOW!!
I’m gonna take the school of no news is good news for right now as far as he’s concerned. I’m going to have a conversation with him about setting up some kind of method of communication with him should something happen to him. But that would take getting him out from under his rock.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: I will post pics of her two GSD if she says it’s ok. They are both gorgeous, but the new one is extra-so because she’s mostly black.
The Dawg: Yeah. It would be terrible for you not to know. That sucks.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Me likey the mostly or all black GSDs. Have you seen the Eukanuba commercial with the big black police GSD? That is one purty puppeh right there.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Is the commercial you mean? Puuuurty!
My friend’s GSD has some tan in her muzzle, but still beautiful. The other is mostly tan.
P.S. If I ever got a dog, it would either be a mostly-black GSD or a rottie.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: That would be Blitz! I’ve seriously thought about adopting a retired police or military dog although they tend to get scooped up by their handlers even after their working days. Of course I still am heavily leaning towards a Great Dane, I just haven’t because my brother (who I also live with) doesn’t want a dog or a puppy in the house.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: He’s gorgeous! I love his all-black face. As for your brother, bribe him with cookies! And, make it clear you will be doing all the doggy chores. Who can resist a little puppeh? OK, Great Danes aren’t little, but still….
moe99
General Winfield Stuck
Sarah seems to share an capacity for sniffing out those greenbacks with GOP chair, Michael Steele. Cut from the same cloth they are!
asiangrrlMN
@moe99: Most of the GOPers are grifters at heart, methinks. How ya doing?
@Yutsano: Yeah, that’s true. You do work a lot. You need a wife! Oh, wait, you have one. ME! Night, sweetie. Talk to you on the flip side.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I dunno, I’m mulling it over. Maybe this summer when my mom has time off and can watch him/her (though odds are I’m gonna get a male) while I’m at work it might work out better. Great Danes are social dogs and he’ll need someone to play with while I’m out earning money for his chow. It’ll give me some time to mull it over as well.
Okay I feel like a wuss but I’m drained and need some shut-eye. Catch y’all when the big yellow ball comes back around!
Glocksman
@Jules:
The sad thing for me is that at one time I liked Huckabee before I finally embraced the Dark Side and became a Democrat.
Not because of the religious right bullshit he peddles, but the economic populist/’caring Christian’ *image* he used to project.
Of course it turned out to be more all about the Benjamins than about any actual principles.
I guess Huckabee caught my interest while I was in transition from a glibtard to a Democrat.
Glocksman
@Mark S.:
The author’s phrasing is somewhat ambiguous.
I read it as saying that you can buy a ticket solely to hear Palin speak for $349 while for $200 more you can buy a ticket to the entire convention that includes hearing Gov. Mooselini.
Either way though, the extremely high prices indicate to me that its more about raking in the cash than it is about attracting a large audience.
If I had to guess, the high prices are what some GOP consultant told the organizers was the highest they could get away with charging without making it totally unappealing to the average teabagger.
ds
I AM NOT YOUR ATM!!
… ONLY SARAH HAS MY PIN.
Chuck Butcher
@ds:
Push the right buttons and the money falls out…
asiangrrlMN
@ds: Bwahahahaha! The winnah!
@Chuck Butcher: That’s what Sarah is hoping, at any rate.
@Glocksman: I think that would be a bit rich for the average Tea Bagger’s wallet, but what do I know?
Chuck Butcher
@asiangrrlMN:
I get invitations to poli stuff all the time, $2-500 seems to be about the range, though VIP stuff…
It isn’t that the speakers etc are worth the bucks, it’s contributing sort of thing…then it’s about the CAUSE.
asiangrrlMN
@Chuck Butcher: Hm. So do I. So maybe it’s standard.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
@Glocksman:
A fool and their money are soon parted. You can bet the mailing list of those who attend this convention is going to sell for some BIG bucks. A list of stupid people who willingly throw their money away on worthless shit?
Priceless. A fucking goldmine and you can bet they are going to milk it for all it’s worth.
Robert Waldmann
I missed the ads for the redstate convention. Seems to me the most absurdly dishonesty hype since the original Eric the Red named Greenland.
jurassicpork
Fox News at its Finest, Part 8. Basically, Fox is an electronic version of Red State or Little Green Footballs.
David
Polish your balls:
“The Bowling Proprietors Association of America will feature Palin at the Bowling Industry’s Premier International Convention next summer in Las Vegas.”
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0912/palin_to_keynote_bowling_convention.html
redoubt
Ask, and you shall receive.
You know, this says more about Erick bin Erick than Sarah Palin: “Damn, why couldn’t I be the obscure Republican officeholder turned national figure?”
Ash Can
@jurassicpork: I understand that LGF has been infected by common sense in recent months, so you may not be able to lump them in with Erick and his Excellent Adventure anymore.
Cervantes
@Emo Pantload (fka Studly):
Ziglar just turned 83.
kay
You have to admire Palin because she’s completely shameless. I loved her denial of what was in Halperin’s book.
“I was there”
Well, sure, but so was Schmidt, presumably. She’s a pro.
Remember November
Disorganized, more like it.
Michael D.
Anne:
Where does this hate come from? ;-)
Randy P
@SpotWeld:
That was kind of my reaction too. Not that I’d met the writer, but that it would be much more interesting to meet a writer in a small informal setting like that, than to go to a big sci-fi convention, which I did exactly once.
Randy P
@Comrade Luke:
Actually I thought it was the #2 guy we kept killing. So maybe he’s finally dead and we’ve moved on to #3.
Back on Tea Party stuff, could there be a better, more classic “Judean People’s Front” moment than this? From Talking Points Memo.
Ash Can
Next week, this activist will be commenting, “Hey, everyone, guess what? Milk doesn’t just come from the store — it really comes from cows!”
PeterJ
A non profit tea party group? Really? Isn’t capitalism all about profit? Then what is non profit if not anti capitalism?
The non profit tea party groups are obviously all fronted by democrats forcing their socialized views on patriotic Americans.
Hob
@Yutsano: Dunno if anyone is still on this thread so I’ll wait for the next open one, but I have some cute-ass shepherd dog pics for you.
tigrismus
So Palin’s $500 event charge is not credible, Erick’s 50$ charge was TOTALLY DIFFERENT… I’m reminded of the punchline of a certain old joke, “we’ve already established you’re a whore, now we’re just negotiating price.”
Stefan
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.
Hmmmm…unorganized masses banding together with a common voice to protest their economic disenfranchisement? Sounds like, oh, I don’t know… COMMUNISM to me!
moe99
@asiangrrl
Splendid recovery from the anesthetic. It will take some time to see if the voice comes back. Thanks for asking!
mandarama
@asiangrrlMN:
For you, I will try. I might be limited to “stand outside and photograph the crazy parade,” though. Though I grew up in the reddest of red states, people who will spend almost 1K to come here and see Palin…they skeer me. I got a coupla batshit uncles and so on back home, but that lady in that video, from Ohio? ::shudder::
And our local media will fawn all over the whole thing, ugh.