If you were looking forward to laughing at the participants of National Tea Party Unity Conference, I have bad news for you. Without Republican astro-turfers to pay their expenses, the Teabaggers don’t want to go.
The Tea Party is off.
At least, the National Tea Party Unity Convention that was being planned for mid-October in Las Vegas is off. It was supposed to be a repeat of the convention in Nashville last February, which drew 600 “delegates” (and almost as many reporters) and an adoring audience for Sarah Palin, the keynote speaker.
Sponsored by Tea Party Nation [Teabaggers delinked], a social networking site, the convention was supposed to emphasize Tea Party groups working together — a contrast to the convention in
February, which was plagued by infighting among groups, with sponsors and speakers dropping out right up until its opening hours. Organizers chose Las Vegas not least because it is the center of the Senate race that Tea Party activists would most dearly love to win: Sharron Angle, a Republican supported by Tea Party groups, is challenging Harry Reid, the leader of the Democratic majority.
Barbee Kinnison, a Tea Party activist in Las Vegas who had been helping organize the convention, sent an e-mail to supporters saying that it was with “deep sorrow” that she had to announce “the convention is just not going to happen.”
Tea Party Nation still draws scorn from some other Tea Party groups, which have raised eyebrows at asking people to spend more than $200 to attend a convention, so it was not clear what this said about the strength of the movement. Tea Party Patriots, a large umbrella for about 2,700 local Tea Party groups nationwide, had criticized the media attention on the convention in February, saying it was not a real representation of Tea Party activism.
But Ms. Kinnison said in her e-mail that “the various large ‘other’ Tea Party organizations have slid in their participations and donations across the country, and their events are free.”… [emphasis added]
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The money is the key. Whenever I want to attend a progressive or Democratic convention, or even a convention pertaining to my volunteer work, if I can’t pay, I can’t go. Sadly, no lobbyists, criminal corporations or millionaires will step up to pay my way. Tea Party Nation is the only Teabagger group that is not astro-turfed, and this just goes to show that whatever real grass roots Teabuggery may have had, they are burned out now. What’s left is the insaniTEA wing of the Republican Party.
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Well, it’s typical, isn’t it? A bunch of republicans who don’t want to go unless someone else is paying for it. That’s how the emulate the wealthy that they admire soooooo very much 😆
LOL!! Right on, Bee!
Hmmm. Palin was advertized as a speaker for the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference in D.C., but she couldn’t/didn’t come. Would she have actually spoken at this Tea Party shindig, or was her name simply meant to draw attention to the event?
More to the point, Tea Party organizers will need to make their events financially and geographically accessable to Tea Partiers if they want attendees. Otherwise, their events will face the same fate as this one.
No, she wasn’t scheduled at this one. Most Teabagger astro-turf groups pay for their sheeple., something pretty unique.
This is a little off topic, but I always marvel at how confused the teabaggers are in general. One of the things that personally just kills me is how they wear the stars and bars, but several years ago before flag-like clothing was decriminalized, if they saw someone wearing an outfit like the goofball with the “niggar” sign, they would have been up in arms! 😆
Nikolai, are you suggesting that Teabaggers ast in a sane manner? 🙄 How is that even possible?
Oh, it’s a shame that no one will pay to bus them to the event and pay their overnight in a hotel. What do they think this is, a free lunch. Maybe the Koch brothers will kick in some cash; they seem to have plenty of it. 😈
Nope. The Crotch brothers only pay for the groups whose thought they control.
So let me get this straight. The teabaggers are a spontaneous grassroots uprising of thousands of angry Americans who are suddenly fed up — enraged! — at huge deficits and out-of-control government, which have been ongoing problems for several decades now. But these spontaneous uprisings of thousands of angry citizens with pitchforks, are starting to evaporate when the corporate funding gets cut off.
OK, I think I get it now.
But it’s not cut off, Tom. Just for that one group.
Maybe the temptation was too great, and having a meeting in Las Vegas would have been too much for the family values crowd…
Whenever the family values crowd has a convention, the hookers of that city are exhausted.