Sarah Palin will headline first-ever Tea Party Convention

[Fuzz]

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0106/Sarah-Palin-will-headline-first-ever-Tea-Party-Convention

Almost 1-1/2 years since she shook up American politics with her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is set to headline another landmark political event: the first-ever Tea Party Convention next month in Nashville, Tenn.

On its face, the gig would seem a step down for Ms. Palin, one of conservative America’s most popular and polarizing figures (not to mention major thorn in the side of the Obama White House).

But with an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll ranking a generic “Tea Party” as more popular than either Democrats or Republicans, and Palin herself rivaling the charming Mr. Obama in poll popularity, many experts see the Tea Party event as a potential milestone for a mounting, even transformational, force in US politics.

“ith two wars, a continuing terror threat, huge federal deficits, and a major healthcare overhaul in the works, there is no shortage of disaffection out there … and that could prove to be political dynamite,” writes the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz. Against that backdrop, writes Mr. Kurtz, “The tea types can either blossom into a Perotista-style third-party movement or be subsumed to some degree by the GOP.”

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Yeah, like she's going to show up.

[WeDidIt]

1. PLEAS PLEASE PLEASE!!!! Let her run as the Tea Party nominee in 2012.

Nothing would be finer than to Nader the Republicans.

[Capn Sunshine]

2. TAKE A GOOD LOOK

This is what the alternative to the Democratic Party is.

[dkf]

4. Lol. That is scary indeed.

I'm tired of laughing at republicans. Where can we find a decent debate?

[Capn Sunshine]

8. first, we have publicly financed elections and no lobbyists

Then, maybe so of those non-idiots would come forward to run as citizen legislators.

[dkf]

10. On our side too.

Can't wait to toss that lackey Lieberman.

[Tailormyst]

26. Well then perhaps the Democratic leadership should start doing their fucking jobs

Instead of pandering to these RW assholes litle a bunch of spineless jellyfish.

[muntrv]

3. She'll leave midway through the convention, just like her career as gov.

[TexasObserver]

5. Isn't there a FEMA camp with their name on it?

Teabagger Base One.

[FLyellowdog]

6. I'm telling you people...

don't underestimate this movement. We'll all be laughing out of the other side of our faces if she wins the nomination and then WINS THE ELECTION! I never in a million years thought "W" would be reelected after what he'd done the first four years, but was I ever wrong! Palin and the Tea Baggers are a big joke to us right now, but they mean business, and what's worse, they have followers. She has, and always will, scare the hell outta me. Wake up people...it ain't gonna be pretty. :mad:

[Walk away]

11. I am a huge pessimist and even I don't think she can win a presidential election. nt

[bjb]

12. I agree fleyellowdog

[Bobbieo]

15. I agree with Yellowdog - that woman scares the hell out of me, too. There enough stupid

people in this country think she is "so cute"!!! I swore up and down GW Bush didn't have a chance in 2000 - Yeah!!!!!

[Golden Raisin]

16. Yup.

There's nothing humorous to me about Palin. The fact that she was elected a state Governor and selected as a major-party Vice Presidential candidate both amazes and scares me. There are portions of the electorate who will elect anyone, no matter how unqualified. If there's another big, 9/11-esque, domestic terror attack this country is going to swing sharply to the right, up to and including a Palin presidency. Republicans, Tea-baggers, Fox news and others will be whipping up fear to new heights. Democrats will be perceived as "weak". Look how perilously far we tilted towards fascism/dictatorship with Bush the Younger. Another big attack and expect the same syndrome, only worse, if that's possible.

[stevedeshazer]

She'll quit about halfway through, then take her bus to the airport and private jet.

Todd will take the snow machine.

[benld74]

7. The Tea PArty in Alice in Wonderland made more sense!!!!!!!

[Warpy]

9. More like Peronista

Still, they've got a 50-50 chance of forming the nucleus of a crazy person's populist party or degenerating into a Donnybrook. They're all rabidly angry and don't particularly like each other, really, so it's a real possibility either way.

I'll be watching it closely. I know more than a few pubbies who hope she succeeds in forming this new party and ridding the GOP of the Reagan coalition. It's a calculated risk which might save them or destroy them.

We're living in such interesting times.

[Nikki Stone1]

13. That's her natural habitat.

I think they deserve each other.

[Initech]

14. A teabagging convention? I'll pass thanks.

[Ozymanithrax]

17. How much is she being paid to teabag the teabaggers?

She only does it for money, which makes her some kind of political prostitute.

[Bobbieo]

19. Can we start counting the 'political prostitutes' in our gov't?

[lunasun]

18. I am so afraid

of Sara Palin And the teabaggers and now this union of the two ...convening and stuff ! EEEK
Do not underestimate the stupidity that lurks in this country!

[Bobbieo]

20. I'm going to make a prediction here - If Palin gets on the ticket - she will win

I'm 86 and in very poor health so I doubt if I will be alive - but I have seen it. Don't let her get on the ticket!!!!

[Cheap_Trick]

21. Wonder what the baggers would think of her husband's hatred of America?

And her support of that hatred?

[Fuzz]

23. Embrace it as long as Obama is President.

[Tailormyst]

25. They probably agree with him

[Major Hogwash]

22. Please cover this very important political party convention nonstop CNN, MSNBC, and of course, FOX!!

24 hour wall-to-wall, sunup to sunset coverage with in-depth analysis with post commentaries provided by all of the important talking heads including :
Chris "Hah" Matthews
Mika "Huh" Whateverherlastnameis
Joe "I wish I had a real job" Scarborough
Keith "I think I'm going to throw up in my mouth a little" Olbermann
Ed "I never thought about what teabagging meant until Sarah showed up" Schultz
Rachel "These people are from C-street" Maddow
Wolf "That's all the time we have" Blitzer
Anderson "Tonight I'll try to look more concerned" Cooper
Larry "Hello, Pittsburgh, you're on the line" King
Sean "America is now officially dead, that's it" Hannity
Bill "Fuck it then, we'll do it live" O'Reilly
Glenn "Nobody really likes me, not really" Beck

With special guests:
Judge "I'm not really a judge now" fat guy from Fox
General "I'm not really a general now" bald guy from Fox
Attorney "I'm not really an attorney now" bitch from Fox
Eugene "Sarah is really, really stooopid" Robinson
Arianna "Seriously, I can't understand a damned thing she says" Huffington
Bobcat "What, what am I doing here" Goldthwait
Jonathan "This is clearly stooopid, maybe not a violation of the law though" Turley
Chuck "I've got to get up on that stage somehow" Norris
Mike "I'm not going to run, okay I'll run" Huckabee
Dennis "Does anyone remember me" Miller
Michael "Gawd I'm glad Sarah is not from Philadelphia" Schmerconish
Denis "I'm just like Obama, I need a fucking cigarette - that's what I need" Leary
Richard "What, my time's already up already" Lewis
Richard "Oh my fucking gawd Sarah is stooopid" Wolff

[Tailormyst]

24. I hate that vapid little @#$%^&*&*((

[dgibby]

27. I think the real dark horse isn't Palin. It's DeMint.

He's already being mentioned by some of the leaders in the Tea Party movement as one of the top 3 candidates, and everything he's doing now is playing to them and the rest of the radical right. He definitely bears watching, as does she, but he's much more dangerous than she is.

I live in SC, if he ever does get to the WH, I'm leaving the country.

[Orsino]

28. If she shows up, it'll be for money...

...or for some free publicity.

She will not run as a Tea party candidate. Even the veep slot on the GOP ticket was too much work for her; she's not going to undertake it again without the slightest chance of winning.

[Blue Owl]

29. Hitch your wagon to that star, Sarah

and ride it to oblivion.