Will the real Tea Party please stand up?

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Protesters rally April 15 at the Capitol in Lansing, Mich., as part of a series of protests that spanned the USA.



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By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Will the real Tea Party please stand up?
Most political conventions are designed to showcase party unity, but the National Tea Party convention where Sarah Palin is to speak Saturday is sending a very different message.


PALIN: Why I'm speaking at Tea Party convention

The squabbles that erupted over this weekend's Nashville gathering reflect larger challenges facing a hot political phenomenon. Tea Party members drew headlines last summer with protests over health care legislation at congressional town hall meetings and a September rally against big government, held in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, which attracted thousands.

"It's a leaderless movement," says former House majority leader Dick Armey, a Texas Republican who heads FreedomWorks, a conservative think tank working with the Tea Party Patriots.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-02-04-tea-party_N.htm

[sui generis]

1. will the person standing in front of me please sit down

I can't see past your pointy white hat.

:P

[onestepforward]

2. LOL! So true! n/t

[sonias]

3. ROFL

But wait, sui generis - what are you doing in the room? Psst - it's a secret meeting, and you don't have a pointy white hat. You're going to stand out - well like a normal person at the crazy gathering of tea baggers.


Sonia

[sonias]

4. Oh let me add some Texas flavor to the insults

Now mind you - we're not claiming this ass hole. He just happens to be planted here in Texas because he followed his idol "G.W." to the ranchette area of Crawford Texas.

Texas Triburne 2/4/10
2010: C'mon, Nuge, Tell Us What You Really Think!

(snip)
Already, special guest number one at Rick Perry's Sunday football fete in Houston, Sarah Palin, has gotten crosswise with the Guv's chief political adviser, Dave Carney, over his impolitic use of "retarded" (which, apparently, is the word of the week). Now special guest number two, Ted Nugent, is stirring up his own pot. In an interview with the poker magazine Royal Flush, the Waco-based rock-and-roller and Perry pal was asked what he thinks of the President of the United States.

'I think that Barack Hussein Obama should be put in jail. It is clear that Barack Hussein Obama is a communist. Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up.'

The tea party King and Queen make me want to :puke:

Sonia

[sonias]

5. More Texas connection

(from the story link white cloud posted in the op)

• In Texas, activists with Tea Party links are split in the Republican primary for governor. Armey is backing Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's challenge to Gov. Rick Perry in the March 2 primary. Palin campaigns Sunday for Perry. Debra Medina, a former GOP county chairwoman with a libertarian platform, has been working the Tea Party circuit as she seeks the GOP nomination.

Meanwhile, Dale Robertson, who owns the website TeaParty.org, has filed papers to run as an independent. He was repudiated by the Houston Tea Party Society after being photographed holding up a sign with a racial epithet. He does not deny carrying the sign.

Dick Armey is backing KBH! :spray:

They are all a bunch of sick bastards! :crazy:

Sonia