So... how about that Tea Party?

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makingmusic476 said:

Orca_Azure said:
The 'tea party' movement (as it stands now) is nothing more than people who got upset because obama was elected. The frustration over that led to the whole tax day protesting thing (when taxes hadn't been raised). It gained momentum when the people at Fox saw that they could capitalize on it.

People, like sarah palin and glen beck, tend to feed into the whole tea party thing (while getting some pretty generous checks for showing up and speaking).

The movement- as it is now- will never make it to the national level. Sure it can upset some local state elections, but these days, which member of congress is really liked all that much to begin with? The tea party has to move past the all white, racist, hyperbole of palin moniker they have right now.

I've just read up on how Pailn's involved with the Tea Party.  Seems like she got paid to give a speech at some sort of Tea Party national convention that was organized by some other group.

It seems there are competing groups amidst the Tea Partiers.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/02/is-palins-tea-party-speech-a-mistake-tea-partiers-have-mixed-opinions/35360/

She's rumored to be getting $100,000 for her keynote speech (her going rate, according to documents obtained by Politico), and the big bucks have turned off some Tea Party activists who don't want to be associated with the convention, which is being put on by the group Tea Party Nation.

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"We're getting massive grassroots input that they're unhappy with what she's doing right now," said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the group Tea Party Patriots, a national grassroots coordinating group with state and local chapters, which seeks to communicate with smaller independent groups across the nation. Martin's group claims to have 15 million members nationwide, and Martin says it rejected an invitation to be part of the convention.

And it seems other Tea Partiers aren't a fan of her involvement.

Hrm, I'm not a Palin fan.  =/

Yeah, that was the Republicans plan of attack.  They created something called "The Tea Party Express" to try and take over the different local tea party movements.  It doesn't appear to be that successful though outside of giving the Tea Party people more attention.