Tea Party Movement Loses Steam: July 4th Events Get Little Media. GOP Support

The Washington Independent:

While South Carolina's political establishment wrestles with the fate of Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), Ron Parks has already moved on. He's one of the organizers of a July 4 Tea Party in Charleston, a rally that will celebrate America and protest the way that President Barack Obama is governing it.

"We had 6,000 people show up at the last Tea Party in Charleston, on April 15, when [Gov.] Sanford spoke, said Parks, a contractor who lost his job earlier this year and quickly found work as a volunteer with the Tea Party movement. "We're expecting fewer people this time, but I'd love to have to eat my words."

Read the whole story: The Washington Independent

Comments

[Teritt]

Come on people - I need some help here. St Augustine FL, America's oldest city and a bastion of the GOP, had a TEA party and according to the local GOP/Mica run paper, there were 2000 people. Read the comments. If you don't want to add one, you can give those posted a plus or minus. As usual, their TEA party was nothing more than idiots waving 'where's Obama's birth certificate?' and other hateful bigoted placards.

[henrypapillon]

Once you been teabagged it's hard to go back for more.

[jsgaetano]

That dirty sack flavor probably doesn't wash out.

[Disuberence]

I accidentally stumbled upon a bastion of Conservative neanderthals talking about Texas secession. The general consensus was that they would all leave with Texas if it left.

PLEASE TEXAS, LEAVE!

[TexasDem0]

The GOP clown parade still thinks it can increase its credibility by boasting about their tea bagging?

[whodoyouvoodoo]

I took my 13 yr. old to a party today - is he now a domestic terr orist? LOL

[LeftRight]

Depends.... Is he advocating for the destruction of the government??

[Disuberence]

Depends, did you two make sure to wear your h00ds?

[whodoyouvoodoo]

They were at the cleaners...

You guys are sooooo wrong on this......

[yemaya]

No they're just racists. down here in ga, these teabaggers are white southern racists. it's not about the policy issues, otherwise they would have been teabaggin big time during the bush years. it's about a black man in their "white" house. that's all, nothing more...

[CC1]

what about white-hating r@cists such as yourself?! check obama's heritage - both races share the white house now.

[Dissident Dexter]

I've got news for you, whitey, there are more than two races.

[tqjones44]

Conservatives are a joke!!

[Dissident Dexter]

but like most really funny things, they don't get it. see: the colbert report.

[jsgaetano]

It's unbelievably hilarious that conservatives honestly believe Stephen is "one of them".

[motoGpifupleez]

Don't worry teabaggers. Now that the "pitbull" is slinking out of Alaska, she can lead you.

[CR46]

Change that to Quitbull !!

[Eykis]

I am having trouble posting here - but am still trying to get this GREAT FAILURE out to the Public: The teabaggers were unsuccessful in Texas - FAILURES AND BOOS:

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/2009/07/05//0705teaparty.html

As the event kicked off at 3 p.m., only a smattering of people had gathered in the grassy field in front of the stage. Organizers attributed the sparse attendance at that point to the 100-plus degree heat.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-teaparty_05met.ART.Central.Edition1.4c2e100.html


I TOLD THEM JR WOULD NOT BE THERE!

[JulieSA]

Nonsense. There were thousands of attendees at the big tea parties, and there were hundreds of individual events.

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/

Republicans were booed at the Austin event because, despite the lying headline of the article here, it's not about the GOP. Cornyn and Perry were booed for positions they took on a couple of issues, Cornyn for voting for TAP, and Perry for the TTC road.

Guess what? It's not about party, it's about principles. It's about holding our public servants accountable. See?

[Theo67]

Anyone at your tea party advocating for the indictment of Bush and Cheney for the alleged crimes they've committed against America and the world? If not, then exactly who are you planning to hold accountable? Because apart from the obviously illegal war that they started, there's the $1.8 trillion for tax cuts and the $1.2 trillion for the Iraq was that still has not garnered any indignation from your ilk. If you're not holding them accountable for spending $1.8 trillion with a result of the greatest recession since the Great Depression, and a 9.5% unemployment rate (because it is all down to Bush and Cheney's policies), then you don't really have a leg to stand on.

[jsgaetano]

It's about holding non-Republican public servants accountable, you mean.

[JulieSA]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/070509teaupdate.f126890.html

"An estimated crowd of 25,000 to 35,000 people attended the Independence Day tea party at Southfork Ranch on Saturday, one organizer said.

While the official figures haven’t been tallied yet, Debbie Meyers said the bulk of the crowd arrived after 7:30 p.m. to avoid the heat of the day. The temperature reached a high of 101 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

“I was standing on the stage and couldn’t see the end of the people,” said Meyers, president of the event-planning business Bravo Entertainment."

[Falafel]

Um, when the organizer reports the headcount, it's usually overstated (but I'm sure it makes you feel good

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/collin/stories/DN-teaparty_05met.ART.Central.Edition1.4c2e100.html

[Falafel]

Here's a report from the DMN (Dallas Morning News)

"As the event kicked off at 3 p.m., only a smattering of people had gathered in the grassy field in front of the stage. Organizers attributed the sparse attendance at that point to the 100-plus degree heat. "

[Dissident Dexter]

love how you cite your own organizers and the buttplugs at pjmedia. what a crock. you lost and you suck. get over it.

[CrzyRussell]

15k in the small town of Tulare, CA showed up.

[dimplesmile7]

President Obama have drawn larger crowds just doing one speech. So 25,000 in Tx does not make up for the fact that this was a nationwide event and the turn out overall was poor.

[Eykis]

This is hard to refute - even for Faux Noise: See Big D and Austin: FAILURES and BOOS

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/2009/07/05//0705teaparty.html

As the event kicked off at 3 p.m., only a smattering of people had gathered in the grassy field in front of the stage. Organizers attributed the sparse attendance at that point to the 100-plus degree heat.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-teaparty_05met.ART.Central.Edition1.4c2e100.html

[JulieSA]

See my comment above.

[jsgaetano]

OMG...

> "Texas' economy is the only thing that's keeping everything afloat," the
> Denton resident said of the nation's current economic climate. "I don't
> believe the taxes that have come out [and] all the things being forced
> upon us need to happen."

Since when has Texass EVER given more in federal taxes than it's sponged up? Never.

Being a Fiscal Conservative starts at home, guys... and NO Red State has EVER lived up to their rhetoric. America could be so much better if there weren't these welfare queen Red States suckling off the gubment teat.

[jsgaetano]

Fox News will report it as a huge success.

[JulieSA]

And, as it turned out, it was. This article is from several days ago, you know, and their prediction didn't pan out.

[jsgaetano]

Ah, my favorite astroturfer, always trying to spin reality.

[condolf]

I attended a tea party in Tulare, CA and there were over 15,000 people there. Doesn't look like they are losing steam to me.

[AsianAfricanAMERICAN]

please provide a link...?


thanks

[returnofthejedi]

I KNOW that you know better!

[JulieSA]

I typed "tulare tea party" into Google and this is the top hit:

http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/article/20090704/NEWS01/90704003/1002/Over+15+000+attend+Freedom+Rally+Tea+Party+in+Tulare

You should try it some time. Search engines are useful.

[RomeoMD25]

President Obama"s plan to give the privately-owned and unaccountable Federal Reserve complete regulatory oversight
across the entire U.S. economy, which is likely to be enacted before the end of the year, will officially herald the beginning
of a new form of government in the United States - an ultra-powerful banking dictatorship controlled by a small gaggle of shadowy
and corrupt elitists.

[VegetableMan]

shame the dems beat the republicans to it, huh?

[RomeoMD25]

most protesters have the overall goal of pressuring the United States Congress and state governments to "reject government spending as a way out of the recession" and to "build an anti-spending coalition around regular taxpayers". Aside from spending by the Obama administration, the

organizers were not pleased by former president George W. Bush's performance on spending, eitherProtest organizer and co-creator of dontGo Eric Odom has argued that "This is a protest that has been in government the last few years...Bush himself was guilty of socialist policies." He also said of the Republican Party that "It’s obvious they’re trying to ride on the brand that we created... It’s somewhat insulting. His group has turned down a request from Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to speak at its Chicago protest

[billw8017]

The Republican cure for everything is tax cuts: tax cuts for investors, tax cuts for health care, a summer tax holiday for high gas prices, tax cuts as economic stimulus, and returning the people's money to the people when prosperity brings surpluses.

Oh, and we have to eliminate deficit budgeting except we can't raise any money to do it even while their administrations tend to increase the size of the government (excepting the military) a little and the size of the military a lot.

Relying on contractors made our wars much more expensive with the major advantage being that the contractors can contribute from their profits to political campaigns. You think the tea parties were fun? Have you ever played touch football with bundles of hundred dollar bills? Such was life in the Green Zone.