Tea Party Radicals Gear Up For 2010 Elections

[Purveyor]

Organizers of the conservative Tea Party movement are forging plans to translate the anger that fueled nationwide anti-tax rallies and town hall protests into an electoral force that can boot incumbents in next year's midterm elections.

Their targets range from big names like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., to county assessors.

The East Bay Freedom Fighters, a Tea Party group based in the Pleasanton area, is already vetting 43 Bay Area candidates, many of them first time office-seekers. Other branches in California are gathering signatures for a ballot initiative that would restrict the political clout of unions.

Those sympathetic to the Tea Party and the 912 Project - nine principles and 12 values including God, marriage, freedom, honesty and thrift - trumpeted by Fox News commentator Glenn Beck are forming political action committees and rallying around screenings of the newly released "Tea Party: The Documentary Film."

But the biggest challenge facing the movement is how to organize hundreds of local groups, and dozens of Tea Party leaders nationwide with divergent interests, into a force that can influence elections - and how to fund that effort.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/13/MN3L1B34BA.DTL#ixzz0ZhY2uUWQ

[COLGATE4]

1. Well, they could fund

it by buying gold from Beck's advertisers:evilgrin:

[grytpype]

2. The Teabaggers are likely to rip the GOP apart, look at NY-23

The only people impressed with them are themselves.

[zulchzulu]

3. Video cameras are ready to record these asshats

Talk about making the Repiglican Party look way the hell out in the weeds... I welcome the Teabaggers to come out of their holes with their racist, homophobic, theocratic, freeloading behavior!

Cameras are ready to record these pinheads.

[Purveyor]

4. Indeed. I'm giving 'them' all the encouragment I can muster. ;) eom

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. What does it take for a media outlet to call a right-wing extremist group "right-wing extremist"?

Kristalnacht?