Sara Palin to speak at Tea Party gathering-thing.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35249730/ns/politics-washington_post/?GT1=43001

lol tea baggers.

sara

also lol

Shocking

steak and lobster banquet...$600 tickets...yep, this is grassroots and not astroturf...right.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35723_Birtherism_Takes_Center_Stage_at_TeaBagCon

through skull

sarah palin is an anagram for LAN pariahs

shouldn't have haxed halo

in b4 lol Infowars

The Tea Party movement is now almost completely unrecognizable from what it was a few short years ago. It came to prominence in 2008 when the Libertarian Party of Illinois planned to hold an April 15, 2009 anti-tax “Boston Tea Party†in Chicago. In February 2009, the idea grew after CNBC personality Rick Santelli, speaking from the floor of the Chicago stock exchange, criticized the Obama administration’s tax and economic policies and urged Americans become Tea Party activists.

In fact, the idea began as the Boston Tea Party in 2006. It was founded by a group of former Libertarian Party members who criticized the party for its “abdication of political responsibilities,†declaring that “Americans deserve and desperately need a pro-freedom party that forcefully advocates libertarian solutions to the issues of today.†The Boston Tea Party opposed statism at all levels. “The Boston Tea Party supports reducing the size scope and power of government at all levels and on all issues, and opposes increasing the size, scope and power of government at any level, for any purpose.â€

How things have changed.

It didn’t take long for establishment Republicans to steal the idea and claim it as their own. A few weeks after Rick Santelli made his comments, Ron Paul’s media coordinator Steve Gordon went on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show and complained about what he characterized as an attempt by Republicans to hijack the idea. Gordon specifically blamed former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.

It didn’t take long for Republicans to embrace the idea. RNC Chairman Michael Steele, Sarah Palin, and Rep. Michele Bachmann from Minnesota have suggested the Tea Party should be rolled into the Republican Borg hive.

Now there will be a national Tea Party convention in Nashville. It will be a parade of Republican statists with former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin leading the charge. “I look forward to meeting many Americans who share a commitment to limited government, common sense and personal responsibility. This movement is truly a grassroots, organic effort. It’s not a top-down organization,†Palin wrote for USA Today, “it’s a ground-up call to action that already has both political parties rethinking the way they do business.â€

Ground-up? Tea Party candidates for the 2010 mid-term elections “will be expected to support the Republican National Committee platform,†according to Fox News. “If a particular candidate meets the proposed Tea Party criteria he or she would be eligible for fundraising and grassroots Tea Party support.â€

“Once elected to office, members would be required to join a Congressional Tea Party Caucus, attend regular meetings and be held accountable for the votes they cast. Those who stray from the Tea Party path would risk losing it’s support and a likely re-election challenge.â€

In other words, business as usual. Under the rule of George W. Bush and the Republicans, “inflation-adjusted spending on the combined budgets of the 101 largest programs they vowed to eliminate in 1995 has grown by 27 percent, according to the libertarian Cato Institute. Eight years of a Republican president, six with a Republican-controlled Congress, resulted in bigger government, the biggest expansion of entitlements in 40 years and a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street that continues to grow,†writes Donny Ferguson of the Libertarian National Committee.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRLPXEr3ZoQ"]YouTube- Stephen Gordon on Rachel Maddow #2[/ame]

Maddow explains how the Republican subverted Tea Party movement is a blessing for statist progressives.

Bush and the Republicans also invaded two sovereign nations and killed more than a million Iraqis. Democrats by and large supported these war crimes. They also overwhelmingly supported the Republicans when they attacked the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (the so-called Patriot Act being only the most egregious example).

If the co-opted Tea Party embraces the Republican National Committee platform, it will finalize its mutation from a grassroots libertarian organization into an establishment statist tool pushing a national debt for the banksters, bloated government, taxation, perpetual war, and continued attacks on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

It should be obvious by now that the Republicans plan to run Sarah Palin against Obama in 2012. This will be a disaster for the Republicans because many Americans are not fooled by her sudden Tea Party plumage. Republicans are desperate to regain control of the White House and Congress and give us four or eight more years of Bush and his warmongering statist neocons. It is a shabby and absurdly transparent gimmick.

Real Tea Party activists and supporters need to reject Palin, Huckabee, Gingrich, and the Republicans out of hand. They should be vocal about their rejection. Otherwise we will end up with another ideologue and teleprompter reading cigar store Indian for the ruling elite.

http://www.infowars.com/subverted-tea-party-movement-told-to-embrace-republican-platform/

That made me lol

lol Infowars

http://washingtonindependent.com/75949/birther-speaker-takes-heat-at-tea-party-convention

First world problem.

you can watch live here and cspan. you can put in a fake email address. SaraH goes on at 8 or 9pm.

i'm really excited about this. this will actually be the highlight of my weekend.

i am liking her trollish red meat on terrism. "we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern!"

called for a theocratic form of government during the staged Q&A after the speech. clearly this is what the tea party types are going for.

it will be a total waste if she doesn't run.

is it on utube yet?

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=page&page-id=148

So far I don't hear anything on social conservatism. I guess that whole thing died sort of when the economy came down?

the first few speakers did some minority bashing and homophobia already.

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/08/newest-target-of-tea-partiers-er-ron-paul/

tee-hee

oh wow

FUCK

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/sarah-palin-hand-notes-earn-criticism_100317526.html

LIFT AMERICAN SPIRIT

Everybody give her a hand.

lol at the wristband

John Stewart and Steven Colbert destroyed her last night. Anybody who supports this bitch deserves a slap in the face.

got a vid? i'd like to see this

dailyshow.com
colbernation.com

---> full episodes ---> february 8

both segments are kind of exactly the same

I liked Stewart's better.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHItY5Anj3s"]YouTube- TEA PARTY CONVENTION - Sarah Palin, Orly Taitz, Interviews with Participants[/ame]

lo

Here I was thinking the tea partiers represented the libertarian conservative movement but they just seem to be stupid republicans.

Is there another type of republican?

Yeah, they used to.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ess-jerks-mocks-syndrome-son/?test=latestnews

Wait. Didn't this fucking retarded cunt say just the other day that if you say something in jest it's okay? What is FG if not satire? Fucking retard.

awwww, that poor palin, she can never catch a break with her out of whack flip flops.

fucking lol

Palin: Tea Partiers "Have to Pick a Party"

Palin co-opting the teabaggers for GOP's benefit. Maybe she's not so stupid after all.

"and we have a two-party system, they’re going to have to pick a party and run one or the other: ‘R’ or ‘D’."

stupid she is. either that or she thinks people are stupid enough to think we have a two party system.

http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=1645

#35 calls teabaggers "the Lolcats of protest sign grammar"

did heartily lol

fuckin lol'd at their colorful insults.

"35. And their instant escalation from complacent couch potatoes to rhetorical revolutionaries just happened to coincide with the election of a black Democrat with the middle name Hussein. What are the chances?"

"27 and 26."


get out of my head, BB. other than the strange inclusion of #17 (i assume he's on this list due to his flu shot buffoonery), a very agreeable list.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/18/family-guy-actress-respon_n_468331.html

Actress (who actually has downs) who played the character responds to Palin, rips into her hard.

I so hope Palin rips into the actress now. No doubt the people around her won't let her but what a glorious way to drop yourself out of the 2012 election slagging someone with downs syndrome would be.

whoops

maybe Palin is just setting up her son trig to be the first president with down syndrome

I laughed at this very hard for some reason.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/10/a-tea-party-fake/

http://crashtheteaparty.org/



also at the horrible punctuation.

The Tea Party is the biggest organization of morons I have ever seen.

This isn't a thread about the NAACP

This is actually a site created tea baggers to discredit the anti-tea party crowd.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...r-plans-to-destroy-the-tea-party-movement.php

Hmm I'm not so sure, I think the creator is just trollin' the teabaggers hardcore. Though I can see a teafag doing something like this at a liberal rally. The best part about this is that it's all bluster meant to spook paranoid morons and the guy's group probably doesn't even exist!