Will the Real Tea Party please stand up?

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Election: The Florida Republican Party is paying for a lawsuit that seeks to have Florida Tea Party candidates tossed from the ballot. - OrlandoSentinel.com

This is liking watching high level poker players, who are stoned or drunk.

"You aren't from the real Tea Party. You are fake Tea Partiers, pretending to be real Tea Partiers, to diminish the Tea Party vote....But, you know I know that. And so you could be real Tea Partiers, pretending to be fake Tea Partiers, to rally other Tea Partiers, to vote for people we like.... Or, you could be fake Tea Partiers, pretending to be real ones pretending to be fake ones, trying to convince people that the real Tea Party is ...."
 
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I know they didn't fare well here in GA7 yesterday in the run-off. Every tea party group around here supported a candidate and he came up short 55-45. Palin's choice of Handel for governor failed as well.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
I know they didn't fare well here in GA7 yesterday in the run-off. Every tea party group around here supported a candidate and he came up short 55-45. Palin's choice of Handel for governor failed as well.
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True, but she's still 4 for 6 in endorsing winners, and that ain't bad. Can't win 'em all.
 
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Tell that to the Left who thinks setting the bar for her and the TP at 'perfection' makes for giggles and leg shivers on the nightly PMSNBC shows.

My comment was just feeding the ego that is LG...
 
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My obsession with the Tea Party is founded in, no particular order: 1) fascination with how comfortable people are in this day and age in expressing prejudices and fears in vogue more like 60 years ago. I mean, where are these people from-where are they living?; 2) fascination with the manner in which the "conservative" movement every 10-15 years divides just a little bit further. Each time they can rebel against progressives, they seem to splinter a wee bit more; 3) enjoying watching the emergence of personalities like Palin, and wondering how someone could become so emblematic of absolutely nothing.
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It is interesting to me how peoples' views of Sarah Palin are usually a bellweather of their own personal beliefs. It's as if they are projecting their own caricature of people they don't agree with on her in hopes that their own prejudices are accurate.
 
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distrovol said:
It is interesting to me how peoples' views of Sarah Palin are usually a bellweather of their own personal beliefs. It's as if they are projecting their own caricature of people they don't agree with on her in hopes that their own prejudices are accurate.
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I'm not sure what that says about me. I'm definitely a conservative and share some views with Palin, but I think she has about as much business holding office as a cocker spaniel.
 
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GAVol said:
I'm not sure what that says about me. I'm definitely a conservative and share some views with Palin, but I think she has about as much business holding office as a cocker spaniel.
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Cocker spaniel won't nuke someone 'cause they said something mean about prom queen.
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distrovol said:
It is interesting to me how peoples' views of Sarah Palin are usually a bellweather of their own personal beliefs. It's as if they are projecting their own caricature of people they don't agree with on her in hopes that their own prejudices are accurate.
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She is polarizing, isn't she?

And by design. I suspect she realized last go'round that she'll never get the nod. So, she can get a little out there to stir up the faithful. Take the Beck/Hannity track without having to interview anyone.

Whatever happened to her FOX show, anyway? Seems to have faded ...
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lawgator1 said:
My obsession with the Tea Party is founded in, no particular order: 1) fascination with how comfortable people are in this day and age in expressing prejudices and fears in vogue more like 60 years ago. I mean, where are these people from-where are they living?; 2) fascination with the manner in which the "conservative" movement every 10-15 years divides just a little bit further. Each time they can rebel against progressives, they seem to splinter a wee bit more; 3) enjoying watching the emergence of personalities like Palin, and wondering how someone could become so emblematic of absolutely nothing.
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What in particular are you referring to here?
 
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lawgator1 said:
She is polarizing, isn't she?

And by design. I suspect she realized last go'round that she'll never get the nod. So, she can get a little out there to stir up the faithful. Take the Beck/Hannity track without having to interview anyone.

Whatever happened to her FOX show, anyway? Seems to have faded ...
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So if she's inconsequential politically, what is the point in getting worked up about her?
 
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GAVol said:
So if she's inconsequential politically, what is the point in getting worked up about her?
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I've been asking my liberal friends who work for some of the top liberal campaigns and consultants in the country. For someone who is supposedly beyond her 15 minutes of fame, they sure do their best to give her another 15 more every now and then. It's freakishly obsessive how much time is focused on the "insignificant"....to quote a liberal friend "there are far more important things to be discussing. People are losing their homes, jobs, cars, and rights" (I added the last one)
 
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GAVol said:
I'm not sure what that says about me. I'm definitely a conservative and share some views with Palin, but I think she has about as much business holding office as a cocker spaniel.
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As do I. But the derisiveness that the MSM and the like regard her with is stunning. Her biggest problem is that there is a perception that she is dumb, mostly because of speaking gaffes. Thing is, she isn't a polished politician. She is a self made blue collar woman with traditional values that entered politics to make a difference on her local school board and then went up from there. She is a good example of why regular folks don't get in to politics. It's a shame, because politics sure could use them. (Regular, self made folks that is)
 
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lawgator1 said:
She is polarizing, isn't she?

And by design. I suspect she realized last go'round that she'll never get the nod. So, she can get a little out there to stir up the faithful. Take the Beck/Hannity track without having to interview anyone.

Whatever happened to her FOX show, anyway? Seems to have faded ...
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Judging by the Presidents poll numbers, he is more polarizing than her.

And I agree, she wouldn't get the nomination and she knows it. But as the saying goes, better to be the power behind a thousand thrones than to sit on one. Pretty smart for an airhead.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Election: The Florida Republican Party is paying for a lawsuit that seeks to have Florida Tea Party candidates tossed from the ballot. - OrlandoSentinel.com

This is liking watching high level poker players, who are stoned or drunk.

"You aren't from the real Tea Party. You are fake Tea Partiers, pretending to be real Tea Partiers, to diminish the Tea Party vote....But, you know I know that. And so you could be real Tea Partiers, pretending to be fake Tea Partiers, to rally other Tea Partiers, to vote for people we like.... Or, you could be fake Tea Partiers, pretending to be real ones pretending to be fake ones, trying to convince people that the real Tea Party is ...."
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http://www.volnation.com/forum/politics/84839-palin-limbaugh-catch-all-thread-lg.html
 
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CSpindizzy said:
What in particular are you referring to here?
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LG's ad hominem-du jour is that anybody who criticizes Obama is a racist and the Tea Party Movement is a manifestation of that racism. He believes that calling Obama a "socialist" is no different than calling him a "house n_+)*&r".
 
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IPorange said:
You just can't stop talking about the Tea Party...
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The far left in this country has to have an enemy, see Sal Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Since they can't really bash Bush anymore (even though they try) they have found a new enemy.
 
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volfanjustin said:
The far left in this country has to have an enemy, see Sal Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Since they can't really bash Bush anymore (even though they try) they have found a new enemy.
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I wouldn't call the Tea Party an "enemy" so much as a foil.
 
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LG your name is not Joe Conason is it?

The Racists Return - Rasmussen Reports

The funny thing here is that if a caricature of Obama is made, it's racist. But if it were of Bush, Hillary, or anyone else, it is just political satire. Why is it that the tinfoil conspiracy lefties out there scream racism whenever there is a criticism of Obama? Did they miss all of the criticisms of Bill when he was President? Oh that's right. It was because he was the first black president.
 
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