'Warning: Tea Party In Danger': Leader Slams Palin As 'Wolf In Sheep's Clothing'

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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/warning_tea_party_in_danger_leader_slams_palin_as.php?ref=mp


A prominent Tea Party leader from Texas is warning that the movement "is becoming nothing more than a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party," and slamming Sarah Palin as representing "a growing insider's attack to the heart of the Tea Party."

Dale Robertson, the founder of TeaParty.org, is just the latest Tea Partier to express concern that the movement is being hijacked by the GOP.

In a lengthy statement -- entitled "Warning: Tea Party In Danger" -- posted yesterday on the TeaParty.org homepage, Robertson instructs his felllow Tea Partiers to "e alert to turncoats and deceivers being herded into the Tea Party by usurpers from the weakened Republican Party for the sole purpose of capturing our populist movement."

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As for Palin, whose appearance last week at a controversial Tea Party convention appears to have given her a claim to be the de facto leader of the Tea Party movement, Robertson derides her "neo-con flippant viewpoint" and calls her "a duck out of water among true constitutional conservatives."
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well, well, well

[madmax]

1. Hmmm, out of the mouth of Dale Robertson

Power struggle or has he seen the light?

[heli]

2. Yeah. "True constitutional conservatives" and their "Christian Nation"

[bluestateguy]

3. and he would be right

If I believed in the things that the tea partiers believed in, I would be wary of Sarah Palin and not trust her one bit.

[Lasher]

4. That's just what happened to Obama for America on our side.

Now it's called Organizing for America and is part of a DNC that is no longer the DNC of Howard Dean.

[MidwestTransplant]

5. The funny part is that they were funded and conceived by GOP/Corporate allies. Did they every think

they weren't shills? Morons.

[safeinOhio]

6. Leave Sarah alone

she is a human being and a real teabagger.






:sarcasm:

[JackRiddler]

7. Hello, it's the other way around.

His "movement" started an astroturf campaign by Murdoch's "Attack on America," with leadership and PR provided almost entirely by FOXNEWS. Without Beck and the TV's wall-to-wall advance promotion for their rally (which became easily one of the 20 largest demonstrations in Washington DC of the last eight years!) they'd be about as big as, well, the 5t0rmfr0nt faction within the Ron Paul campaign.

FOXNEWS's ideological shotgun approach - decry everything whether bad or good, and consistently blame it on the "socialist" dark-skinned bogeyman - succeeded well enough that this nimrod and a few million other followers think they started a populist outpouring. If Palin - another Murdoch employee - now claims leadership, and does so for profit, she has every right, since her for-profit employer created this thing more than Dale Robertson did.

None of which should be read as underestimating the dangers of this reactionary phenomenon. It can breed a lot of violence.

[SpiralHawk]

8. "Plus, she's one of them there female women." - Teabagsters for Obedience

"And you know what that means, nudge, nudge, wink, wink."

- Teabagsters for Obedience

[Historic NY]

9. de Texas leader

[DailyGrind51]

10. She is a wolf in the RNC's clothing, or whoever else picked up the tab!

[OutNow]

11. Right Wing Wackos Infighting

It's quite normal for right wing wacko groups to fight among themselves. These "true believers" seem united when they are focused on criticizing the government, but always have a lot of trouble agreeing on the best way forward. Since they are at their core, undemocratic, their methods for conflict resolution or to attain power are seldom based on majority rule.

There were dozens of right wing fringe groups in the Wiemar republic in the 1920s. One of the smaller groups had this Austrian corporal named Hitler. Many of these groups had street fighting brigades, Long before they were battling the Communist left or the central government or loading Jews into boxcars, they were honing their skills by fighting each other.

So, let the right wingers fight it out, but when their methods turn violent lock them up as domestic terrorists before they consolidate their groups.

BTW - Sarah Palin, with her charisma and probable mental illness makes a perfect 21rst century Nazi.