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National Tea Party Convention Pics: Just Some People Sitting Around In Their Pajamas
February 6, 2010 | 22 Comments
Andrew Breitbart
Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Reynolds, Jim Hoft
Glenn Reynolds
Jim Hoft
Evan Maloney, Chip-X
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[...] JUST SOME PEOPLE sitting around in their pajamas. [...]
okay, okay, a moment for some (well-deserved) self-congratulation, then pj’s back on and back to work!
;)
Hi Chip! :P
wow! new media rocks!
When rich people (those who can afford $549) take over a movement is when the rest of us walk away. Some of us can take time off of work, but this … If we want elitists, we’ll just vote for incumbents.
You can throw money in the air and run to the front of the crowd, but we don’t have to follow.
Nesh
What the hell are you talking about?
Nesh: I hate to burst your bubble, but $549 does not make someone wealthy. You need at least $550.
The movement is inclusive. Look up the word. Anyone can join, even millionaires.
I’m not a member myself, but I cheer them on.
Agreed Nesho. Those pics don’t look ANYTHING like the original tea party. Hell, they don’t even look like the second wave of tea parties. I would know, I was at quite a few of them.
Which one of those “revolutionaries” is going to be the first one to get their sports coat wet and throw some tea in the harbor?
Don’t get me wrong, I was tea partying when tea partying wasn’t cool, but folks, this was a bad idea. And that’s just my opinion. I open to be persuaded otherwise.
Well, I’m glad that the ball is being moved down the field (spreading the word about freedom and liberty), but I have two items for everyone’s consideration.
1.) Judson Phillips.
2.) Follow the money.
He fits right into the current political paradigm and fancy conventions at fancy resorts.
Ya gotta be careful about looking for Great Leaders. You just might find one…
If that’s the kind of TEA Party Nation you want, that’s the one yer a gonna get.
I hope you people approve of the agenda these folks have set for the tea party movement. Whatever it is? I ain’t saying we just got sold out. Yet. But I ain’t saying we haven’t either.
Don’t be ridiculous. Breitbart et al are fighting the good fight…and at great risks to their reputations and incomes. Who else is willing to take on the MSM and provide serious coverage to the Tea Party movement?
Attack of the Concern Trolls?
I don’t get the big complaint about the cost for the convention. Have you ever tried to rent a large convention center? They cost big money.
No they have never had to do that mndasher so they can opine on it. These guys are full of crap.
I think that having a small and perhaps not representative group steal the agenda of the movement is a legitimate concern. I hope for a big tent approach grounded on some core principles; an approach much like Reagan’s.
I would hate to see the movement hijacked by some individual for personal gain or by some group to push a non-central objective. Some are trying that already.
The future of the TEA party movement is local – that’s 90% of politics. Those big names can’t hijack an “organization” as decentralized as this. They are there to be used – to contribute ideas, generate some publicity and exposure, even lend some credibility. And it’s a networking opportunity for those who go. And if the day comes that it becomes centralized enough to be taken over, it will have already died the death of the existing political parties.
They have made conservatism Sexy, Cool, Hip and now it’s the conservatives speaking truth to power. if I would have known these hot Conservatives would be there I’d have paid the bucks to go. The founding fathers in modern times. They are making history.
“When rich people (those who can afford $549) take over a movement is when the rest of us walk away.”
Yeah, because the American revolution was harmed so greatly when those rich folks like Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson got onboard.
Walk away indeed, concern troll.
“I think that having a small and perhaps not representative group steal the agenda of the movement is a legitimate concern. I hope for a big tent approach grounded on some core principles; an approach much like Reagan’s.
I would hate to see the movement hijacked by some individual for personal gain or by some group to push a non-central objective. Some are trying that already.”
Well said. And well warranted. Someone had to set that convention’s agenda. And it was attributed to the tea party movement. So how else is anyone going to take it other than being representative to those attend these parties? So the question are, who set the agenda? Why? And who gave them that authority? Who gave them that trust?
Answer all those and I’ll think you’ll see that the movement has already been co-op’ed. Intentional or not, the people who paid to be there, and who set the agenda, and who spoke, took over the movement. If only for a week.
I hate to say it…but that’s AUDACITY.
This is undoubtedly one of the weirdest comment threads I’ve read in a long time. At least, if you don’t count any of the Kos-type threads I’ve read.
People here seem to think the conference was about leading the tea party somewhere. It was not, it was a large meeting to share ideas. From this, tea parties across the U.S. will take what philosophy and tactics they can and bring them back to the local areas and do what works for them. You cannot “take over” a movement composed entirely of individual groups from many locations around the U.S.
It’s easy to understand how you are confused; after all, traditional “conventions” held by Republicans and Democrats are about promoting the message the upper leadership wishes to convey and reigning in dissent to present a unified front. But remember this Tea Party convention endorsed no single candidate, it was about sharing ideas, not crowning a leader.
At the heart it was simply a way for a lot of local tea party leaders to connect with each other in person and learn from each other.
Remember that many Tea Party people do not even care about a third party – what they want to try and do is ensure that candidates from either party that are elected are as fiscally conservative and small-government as possible, for the area voting in a candidate. It would serve tea party members just as well to push particular candidates in both Republican and Democratic primaries, so when it comes time for a voter to choose they are at least choosing between two people equally interested in promoting the Tea Party core agenda. I see Tea Party activists as inherently pragmatic in a way that politicians of late have not been.