Tea Party Plans to Protest Against Republicans...

[lib2DaBone]

This article is from Boca Grande. Boca Grande is where Boosh Senior and Babs like to spend their winter. Jebby shows up occasionally. Seems Tea Baggers think the Neocons are too soft. Maybe the GOP should release s few of those torture photos or kill a few more children in Iraq. That should ramp-up the hatred just dandy.



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BOCA GRANDE -- Tea Party organizers say they will have supporters out in force today during a Republican National Committee retreat at the Gasparilla Inn to protest what they say is a softening of the GOP's traditional conservative stance.

They are also worried, according to statements made by Southwest Florida Tea Party organizers, that the GOP is attempting to turn the grassroots movement into an arm of the Republican Party.

"Well, this is not going over too well with members across the country and we are fighting back," Robin Stublen of the Punta Gorda Tea Party wrote in an e-mail to supporters.

"We want to make it clear that we are not a part of the Republican Party and that we do not want the RNC or any Republican candidate to try to take over the grass roots tea party movement for their own use," Englewood Tea Party organizer Randy McLendon wrote to members of Taking Our Country Back.

"We are a fiercely independent group," he added. "We plan to hold signs that say 'Keep your hands off our tea bags.'"

[KonaKane]

1. ROFL!!!

""We are a fiercely independent group," he added. "We plan to hold signs that say 'Keep your hands off our tea bags.'"

BEST line of the day! Definitely a coffee-shooting-out-of-both-nostrils moment!!

[Richard Steele]

5. You just can't make this shit up. nm

[zbdent]

7. well, when you consider that the generally accepted "Republican" office holder is male

and the person with the "teabag" is male ... and the conservatives are extremely homophobic ... yeah, I can see them not wanting a Republican office holder to touch their "tea bag" ...

[mrcheerful]

2. Damn I want their drugs that causes them to be this bat shit insane

It has to be drugs cause nothing else explains tea baggers they are not republicons yet they vote republicons into office :crazy:

[MUAD_DIB]

6. It may be medication, but it could also be that they just stopped

asking questions and accepted skewed answers as gosple.


Some people just want to be led around by the nose.

[Turbineguy]

3. They are correct of course

The repubs gave Bush the powers they are afraid Obama will use on them.

[Jefferson23]

4. This group is for handing out pamphlets from Heritage Foundation:

Here are handouts that you can print and use for sign-waving day and passing around at events...

Heritage Handout - Advancing First Principles

Heritage Handout - Healthcare

Heritage Handout - Family and Religion

Heritage Handout - Energy and Global Warming

Heritage Handout - Immigration and Border Security

Heritage Handout - Economics and Entrepreneurship

Heritage Handout - First Admendment

Heritage Handout - War on Terror

Heritage Handout - Runaway Government Spending


http://www.takingourcountryback.net/7122.html

Too funny, they have quotes from St.Reagan on a running feed on their website.

[tinrobot]

8. Run as a third party. please! PLEASE!

[BlueIdaho]

9. Bug Fuggin Nutty.

[Mythbuster]

10. Really no surprise.

I can see where war mongering neocons could be a little soft for the Tea Bag Terrorist Party.

[Hannah Bell]

11. off the reservation. good. btw, gasparilla inn is owned by the farish family,

the folks who managed both Bush I & II's blind trusts while they were presidents.

Farish family has many interesting family connections, e.g. Jefferson Davis, howard hughes, Baker-Botts, Gerry, Livingston, Carnegie, von furstenberg...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Hannah%20Bell/58

[Ardent15]

12. Dick Armey is independent from the GOP? News to me....nt

[HughBeaumont]

13. "Fiercely Independent" . . . er . . .

. . . these 'bags spend 99% of their energy, signs and lame slogans denigrating ONE party, and that wouldn't be the one that starts with an "R". So I'm kind of going with "not buying" on the Tea Klux Klan's bullshit.

[gratuitous]

14. Yeah, right

These guys will turn on the Republicans, boy, just you watch it! I'm sure Newt, Mitt, and the rest of the Republicans currently prostrating themselves at CPAC are really worried about the tea baggers, and that they might decide in their little pea brains to bite the hand that nurtured them.

[B Calm]

15. They better keep an eye on the sky around the Gasparilla Inn.

[drm604]

16. So Republicans are trying to take over a movement started by Republicans?

The teabaggers are starting to see what's been there all along, but won't admit to themselves that they've been had.

[Kievan Rus]

17. They're so far right-wing, they're left-wing now

[WillyT]

18. THAT'S RIGHT... Y'All Better Keep Your Hands Off Of MY Grey Earls !!!

God I hate getting old.

:evilgrin:

:rofl:

[Sheepshank]

19. Tea Party? Huh?

Tea party issues are all over the place in this article. I think they are simply trying to validate themselves. They sure do have a high opinion of themselves. "....to protest what they say is a softening of the GOP's traditional conservative stance."
They are independent, they are NOT part of the GOP, yet they want to picket the GOP to change their political strategies to align with the Tea Party? WTF. This makes about as much sense as picketing a Dem convention to have them be more like Tea partiers?

"They are also worried, according to statements made by Southwest Florida Tea Party organizers, that the GOP is attempting to turn the grassroots movement into an arm of the Republican Party."
Personally, I hear upper echelon Republicans (interpret that any way you want) wanting to distance themselves from the Tea Party, not absorb them! We all know it has nothing to do with Tea party policies, they just want their votes.

OTOH, it serves my purposes to have the Tea Party viewed as an arm of the GOP...sort of magnifies those conservative policies and extrapolates them a little so we can see where (philosphically) those policies can lead.