Thursday, February 4, 2010
Politics / Woods The Tea Party Begins: Nashville Asks, Who Are These People and What Do They Want?
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:28 PM
Unlike the mass protests and town-hall rage that has come to define the movement in its first year, the convention is designed to demonstrate that the Tea Party movement is "growing up," said convention spokesman Mark Skoda, chairman of the Memphis Tea Party. There are sessions on leadership, political philosophy and such nuts-and-bolts political topics as "how to do voter registration drives," as movement leaders try to turn grass-roots power into political gain in November's midterm elections and beyond. ad_icon "We are all very mature people -- without the pointy hats and the signs," Skoda said. "You will see people of quality and maturity to help bring this movement to a pinnacle whereby we actually change politics."No pointy hats? The Tennessean's Jennifer Brooks was so excited at first that she started live blogging. But she's only managed to come up with one post all afternoon, and it was a bitch-fest about her failure to secure credentials. Newsweek blogger Daniel Stone is so bored he's resorted to writing about the niceties of the Gaylord Opryland Hotel like it's the Taj Mahal. "It's not often I write while sitting on a leather chair at the foot of a massive Southern-style white staircase, and beside a fireplace powered by real wood," he writes. We're not sure how much more of this we can take. Where are the nutjobs when you need them?
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For anybody who is interested, I will be teaching a class across the street at the Radisson, in my big blue van with "Save the Earth, Kill a Liberal" and "NoBama" bumper stickers. It will be on how to spot a liberal. The next day will be on how to surprise a liberal.
And just remember libtards: We are America!
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Liberals are so stupid. All they do is complain. They hardly deserve to be in this nation of ours. I'm still not suer why we don't just force them to leave if they hate this place so much. That's a sweet bumper sticker –– "Save the Earth, Kill a Liberal." I used to have one on my old car, but I purchased a new mustang. I now need one for my mustang.
A Saturday highlight:
Speaker, ANA PUIG - “Correlations between the current Administration and Marxist Dictators of Latin America”
Reminds me of the Spurlock hearing. Someone say something interesting and quotable!
For anyone interested I will also be teaching a class across the street at the Radisson in my big red van with "Save a Republican, Kill the Earth" and "I would sell my mother to pay my rent" bumper stickers.
The classes are all accredited from schools like--
The Karl Rove School of Youthful Indiscretions-- where you learn forgery, flier mass marketing, and how to let partisanship, but more importantly ambition, make you completely amoral.
The GOP School of Plausible Deniable- where you learn to keep a straight face and good eye contact when you say thinks like: I'm not a crook, I don't recall, I plead the 5th, I was out of town that weekend, I was hiking the Appalachian Trail, I have a wide stance, No! We are not the party of No! and You Lie!
The Rush Limbaugh Institute of Dominican Drug Muleology -- where you learn smuggling
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The O'Keefe School of Stupid Disguises
Hey Hopewell, are you mocking me? Meet me out in the parking lot next to my van tonight at 11:00 so I can open up a can of whoop a$$ on your sorry, libtard self!
I too will be ejicatin' Tea-baggers from the bed of my pick-up truck across the street from Shoppry-land. My truck has several distinctive bumper-stickers on it too, including "Practice random and senseless acts", "God is not a registered Republican" and "Eat the rich."
Not sure why the Tea-baggers are wasting time teaching their followers to register people to vote. Don't they know that actually getting people to vote is much less "efficient" than just courting the folks who program the voting machines? If they don't know who those folks are, I'm sure ole Rascally Ramsey would be happy to enlighten them (for a small fee, and eternal fealty).
