Comments on: Palin Emerges as the Star of First National Tea Party Convention

By: whoframedrudy

whoframedrudy — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:40:39 +0000

“That amounts to lying.”

You’re right, but let ‘em lie. When the media elites and the ‘creative class’-hahaha-ridicule and lie about her, it only makes her stronger.

By: Sassy

Sassy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:59:53 +0000

Yes they know!
That’s why the BO blitz is sweeping the airwaves again.
Take away his campaign style and there’s nothing left.

By: Murray

Murray — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:46:40 +0000

Absolutely, Sassy. In response to your second point: I am constantly amazed that the media AND this administration act as though they are baffled by this “little tea-party” thing, when you KNOW they have been studying it 24/7, and are trying to get ahead of it.

By: donjo

donjo — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:28:51 +0000

Problem is, right now there’s no viable 3rd party candidates. We’re screwed into the 2 party system, like it or not. People pissed off will just NOT vote.

By: Hokma

Hokma — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:16:57 +0000

I was very disappointed in Sarah Palin’s speech and her interview with Chris Wallace. I thought there was more there to her that just needed exposure. All she does is recite campaign talking points – even in interviews. Either she is still uncomfortable with the national stage or there just is not enought there.

Then the crib notes on the hand. Whether we want to believe it or not that image finishes her as a candidate for President. That image will be mercilessly mocked throughout any campaign she is in. Can you imagine Hillary Clinton giving a speech with crib notes on her hand? of course not. What you are seeing now is nothing compared to what the opposition will do to her in an actual campaign.

She should have simply had cards or notes when she gave the speech. What she did was dumb. I like her and her story, but after Obama, Americans are going to want substance over style and Sarah was not ready for it yet.

By: Sassy

Sassy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:02:38 +0000

My chrystal ball tells me three things:
Both Sarah Palin and the Tea Party will be treated with condescension and disdain.
In November, politicians are going to wonder what the hell hit them.
The middle class has had it with picking up the tab for both the high rollers and the bottom feeders.

By: devildog666

devildog666 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:48:37 +0000

Hey Ohio Granny,

Was that you drinking with Breitbart at Rusty’s Bar and Grill? It was exciting seeing all those bloggers and news people covering the event; about 100 times more coverage than the 9/12 Washington DC event got.

They are finally starting to take notice. The one thing I learned from attending all those events was that like me almost no one attending was politically active before. America is in the midst of a revival, in spite of our faults, we have the best country in the world and we want to keep it that way and not become “WARDS OF THE STATE”.

By: AC

AC — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:36:35 +0000

Devil Dogs and Potato Sticks, two great walking the streets of Brooklyn snacks.

By: Ohio Granny

Ohio Granny — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:57:40 +0000

Hey, in Ohio, my little group is trying to get 50 Republicans (tea party members), and 50 normal decent rational Democrats to sign up for the central committees of each party. Then we can inject some reality, some honesty, and some good government by taking over from the inside. Get the 50 Republicans is easy since we are currently “out of power” and the rage against the machine has been brewing for 10 years. Folks, normal people did not like all the spending and correuption and paybacks under the GOP. We were writing and calling and pleading with them to quit stealing our money and using it to name buildings after themselves or to take home the bacon for re-election.
So Sarah Palin is starting where she knows and later, she is going to shock everyone by endorsing some real honest, decent, sane Democrats. So if we want to take back our country, our government, and rule ourselves, then we have to step up to the plate and be our own Sarah Palins.

I went to Nashville for the banquet. I got to meet Carl Cameron, Andrew Breitbart, and Glenn Reynolds. I got to drink with Joe Bailey of arrest fame from the New Orleans 4. I got to feel the energy and excitement as people from all around the country said, hey, this middle tent is for whites, blacks, yellows, browns, reds, straights, gays, and everyone who believes that it is time for the real people to join together to get ‘er done. And for the first time in 10 years, I believe this country is going to emerge better, stronger, and the ultimate Global leader for this new age.

By: devildog666

devildog666 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:50:35 +0000

I was there. 600 delegates for the convention and 1,000 people for the banquet where Palin spoke.

By: kenoshamarge

kenoshamarge — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:51:29 +0000

If moderate, reasonable Indpentment minded people stay home only the idealogues and fringies, and the every present and corrupt media, will decide our elections.

If you keep yourself as informed as possible you can always vote for the “best” of bad choices. And that should not be based on some dimwitted party loyalty.

I always vote. I consider it my “ticket” to bitch. Long, loud and often. If you aren’t part of the process your complaints are hypocritical.

If the Tea Party movement continues to allow asshats like Tom Tancredo to speak at their conventions, they will quickly lose me and many other moderate Independents who were cheering them on.

They need to get the “nuts” off the buffet table. Fast.

By: AnnieCarmel

AnnieCarmel — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:51:15 +0000

Not even note cards, Concerned…merely topics she didn’t want to miss. We know the trolls come out whenever Sarah is in the lower 48 or on tee vee, or makes a comment on anything at all. yawn.

By: Docelder

Docelder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:28:34 +0000

Bush-Cheney. LMAO. You guys are a riot. Where’s the jobs?

By: donjo

donjo — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:13:37 +0000

You guys might want to read more carefully. I copied an article from the Nashville Post’s A.C. Kleineider WHO WAS THERE. But since when did people stop and think before opening their pie hole?

“The Nashville Post’s A.C. Kleinheider, who covered the Tea Party convention for that paper, says Sarah Palin killed the tea party movement (“The tea party movement is dead. The one I was familiar with anyway. Judson Phillips held it down and Sarah Palin drove a stake right through its heart live last night on C-Span in front of an unsuspecting audience”). He also observes that “Sarah Palin didn’t give a tea party speech last night. She gave a partisan Republican address”; he asks: “what was [Palin] doing justifying and perpetuating the foreign policy of George Bush at a tea party convention?”; and says that what began as “an authentic protest movement” — “of ragtag and unorganized libertarians, independents and conservatives [that] was something new and unique” — has now been completely annexed by Palin and her GOP operative-controllers who want a restoration of the standard Bush/Cheney agenda.”

By: John/johnwsmart.com

John/johnwsmart.com — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:29:35 +0000

I am weary of the “third parties fail” talking points. The Democrats began as an alternative to the Federalists. The GOP began as a third party alternative to the Whigs and the Democrats. We are witnessing a full scale collapse of the Democratic party (though most Dems are still in denial about it). The GOP is energized but without focus beyond Reagan fetishizing. We need a third party badly. No, it probably won’t win national elections right away. But it would be a force for balance and action. A third – and fourth – party could form alliances – demand to be heard, influence policy. All outside the constraints of the dangerously sick 2 party system.

Every bit of anger and distress is funneled into one party then another (the subtext of “hope and change” was always fury and pain.) I don’t want Newt Gingrich and the Dick Cheney faction to benefit from my outrage at Obama and Pelosi because I have “no where else to go”. Dying in a gas chamber or by firing squad is a moot point to the one giving up the ghost. I’d rather be on the outside pounding on the door and scaring the daylights out of those on the inside – forcing them to behave with something akin to integrity – then to watch the country die. And that is what is happening. None of this should be in denial about this. Our futures are evaporating.

There is “somewhere else to go”. And we shall go there – and it won’t be pleasant – if we don’t get rid the cancer of the 2 party system.