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 Tea Party Movement Losing Steam?Posted on Feb 4, 2010
What if they threw a tea party convention and Michele Bachmann didn’t come? The first official such gathering of the right-wing “grass-roots” movement kicked off in Nashville on Thursday, and while it appears that the Republican congresswoman from Minnesota did pull out, Twitter-happy keynote (teanote?) speaker Sarah Palin was still very much on the books for her big moment Saturday. It’s nearly impossible to make any solid predictions about the movement’s potential impact, in the 2010 midterm elections and beyond, but of course media outlets of various persuasions (including this one) are trying to do so anyway. The AtlanticWire put its figurative finger on the tea party pulse Thursday, and the results are mixed as to the TP-meter’s current readout. —KA
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By zeroinfinity, February 5, 2010 at 3:32 pm Link to this comment
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Wow! Ms. Palin called her baby, named Trig, “retarded?” That is news to me!
Of course, what is even more “retarded” of Sarah Palin to do is name a child after a type of mathmatics!
Report thisBy purplewolf, February 5, 2010 at 9:24 am Link to this comment
When it first was reported not only had Michelle quit this event,Sarah as well had decided not to appear at this tea party speaking engagement. What happened? Sarah flip-flop again? And what about the tea party being mad at Sarah for backing John McCain’s political brouhaha last week?
Nice job Michelle,getting government kickbacks from the farm properties you own but do not actually farm on. Wouldn’t that be considered fraud? And Sarah, nice job taking 63K from your fund raising for your run in 2012 you keep denying,otherwise why do you need to have people raising funds for you, to help with the cost of raising your retarded baby(which you have yourself referred to him as)and buying up copies of your book to give away to your fans who pay hundreds of $$ to see you, double kickback with the royalties also and isn’t it money laundering to take your fund money for this purpose? YES IT IS! And how about not paying your fair share of property taxes on the other cabins you own in Alaska and were they also built with material, money and man power from “other projects” for your state of Alaska. I smell corruption larger than the likes of Ted Stevens in your home state, and didn’t Ted teach Sarah well on all of his underhanded tricks of the political trade? Yes, he did.
More lies,corruption and stupidity from the party of no. No ethics, no conscience, no answers and no brains.
Report thisSeems all of these involved with the tea party are a bunch of soggy used up old tea bags. Time they were thrown out in the compost bin to be recycled into fertilizer,as that is the only real purpose they could use to justify their useless existence in this lifetime.
By elwoodpdowd, February 5, 2010 at 5:13 am Link to this comment
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Not only is that idiotic movement not going away, it will continue gaining momentum. Conservatives will sweep in the midterms and the next president will be Sarah Palin.
Report thisBy zeroinfinity, February 5, 2010 at 3:11 am Link to this comment
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The tea party people give me the creeps! They really do. I wonder how any rational semi-educated person can take them seriously. Some tea party folks made “TEA” an acronym for “Taxed Enough Already” even though the USA has among the lowest tax rates of any nation in the first world.
Some of these tea party people are so radicalized that they are of the opinion that there should not be any taxes at all in the United States! Please take a moment to think about what this idea means. Chances are, the same person who went to a tea party rally took his trash out to his driveway entrance that morning.
If the majority of the USA public become such propagandized sheeple that this “movement” becomes more powerful politically, this would be even more detrimental for the USA than it already is now. Yes, things can get worse. Good luck paying back 12 trillion dollars if tea party people are in power. I am all for protesting how tax money is allocated, but to protest being taxed is unrealistic and portrays the person as greedy and selfish - which evidently are USA social virtues anyhow.
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