Tea Party Madness

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The teaparty hate-fest in Nashville got off to a roaring start with former Republican congressman and immigrant basher Tom Tancredo.

[Tancredo] told about 600 delegates in a Nashville, Tenn., ballroom that in the 2008 election, America “put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House … Barack Hussein Obama.”

You can always tell where a politician is coming from when they feel the need to include Obama’s middle name.  A Muslim sounding name does wonders in rousing passions among bigots.

“Thank God John McCain lost the election,” he said, voicing his belief that McCain would have presided over big budgets and lacked a tough stand against immigration.

Tancredo served 10 years in the House of Representatives and made a name for himself with his ardent opposition to immigration. He believes the 2008 election served to galvanize the right.

“This is our country,” he told the crowd. “Let’s take it back.”

Sure, whatever.

Sarah Palin is speaking tomorrow amid the controversy surrounding the National Tea Party Convention.  The organizers are making a buck on the poor fools attending this exercise in shouting and sign-carrying while Palin pulls in over $100,000 in speaking fees.  The various tea party organizations across the country are making noise in decrying the Nasville convention as nothing more than a money-making deal for the organizer.

“When somebody steps up and says their purpose in putting on a convention like this is to make a profit, that’s really the antithesis of a grass roots movement,” said Mark Meckler, of the Tea Party Patriots faction.

In a mid-January post on his blog, “Riehl World View,” Riehl questioned whether Phillips “wants to be a tea party millionaire.”

“[Tea party activists] generally are not the type of people who would gravitate to some very expensive hotel to dine on lobster and steak and listen to someone speak,” Riehl said in an interview Wednesday.

So the right-wing crazies will have their fun, Fox will broadcast it as the event of the decade while organizers and Palin laugh their way to the bank.  Just another day in the land of Wingnuttia.

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