Revival and Revolt: Inside the Tea Party Nation Convention

[babsbunny]

http://www.irehr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52:revival-and-revolt-inside-the-tea-party-nation-convention&catid=10:analysis&Itemid=23

Thursday, February 11, 2010 22:03 Devin Burghart

Nashville - The rancor and division among Tea Partiers that erupted in the weeks leading up to the first Tea Party National Convention were nowhere to be found inside the expansive biosphere-like confines of the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. Squabbles set aside, at least for the moment, the real business of the February 4-7 convention was three-fold: culture warring, movement building, and campaign winning.

Organized by Judson Phillips, a Nashville attorney, and his wife Sherry, Tea Party Nation (or TPN) is one of several different Tea Party factions vying to be the voice of those angry white voters wanting to “take America back!”

TPN describes itself as a “user-driven group of like-minded people who desire our God given Individual Freedoms which were written out by the Founding Fathers. We believe in Limited Government, Free Speech, the 2nd Amendment, our Military, Secure Borders and our Country!” These threads ran through the convention.

[Chulanowa]

1. So they believe in shallow soundbites and insubstantial hullabaloo?

Why not just dress up like an ugly Scotsman with 80's hair and scream FREEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOM! at each other? Might be more productive.

[ChicagoSuz219]

2. They should get Monty Hall to be their leader...

...is he still alive?

[damyank913]

3. I think this is great...

The neocons can now serve to divie up the republican vote the way Nadar does the Dems. This could be a good thing. You can't keep all that shit bagged up without someone smelling it. The repubs are heading for disaster. Of coarse, this assumes that the dems actually get out and vote.