Tea Party: Rifts Emerge As Convention Gets Underway

CNN:

As the Tea Party's first national convention gets under way, members are united in their anger but divided over the future of the movement.

The convention is marketed as an opportunity to bring Tea Party leaders from across the country together to network and support the movement's goals. But some see the high-ticket convention, organized by a for-profit organization, as contradictory to the group's bottom-up, grass-roots beginnings.

Read the whole story: CNN

Comments

[normalintexas]

07:28 PM on 02/05/2010

Next TeaGaggers Convention will be held at the Cheater/Quitter's two cabins in the mountains that she failed to declare and pay taxes on.

[bryanzth]

11:32 AM on 02/05/2010

Oh, I really trust Sarah Palin to carry the Teabaggers to victory! We shouldn't get in her way, to see them come to complete victory. Oh victory, where is thy sting?

{unsnicker}

BZ.

[purplejesus]

10:55 AM on 02/05/2010

angry ignorant white racists = tea baggers

[dildenusa]

10:53 AM on 02/05/2010

What are they putting is this tea anyway? It must be some bad stuff.

Some of the whacko conspiracy theorist tea bag partiers think the CIA is putting tranquilizers in the municipal water systems. I think the CIA is putting prozac in the tea bags and then smuggling the tainted tea bags to the town hall meetings and the convention. Otherwise, how would you explain this nonsense.

[american2008]

10:09 AM on 02/05/2010

heard the AP reported that Jethro and Ellie May were spotted at the Convention. Seems like most of the teabaggers relate to Jethro, he also had a sixth grade education!

[Bude]

09:54 AM on 02/05/2010

Republicans need to convince the Tea Party to join forces with them against the democrats.

If they remain a third party, the GOP is screwed.

Republican leadership knows that.

[ArkayMI]

12:56 PM on 02/05/2010

If the Republicans get the Tea Party to join them, they will lose the moderate/independent votes. If they don't, they will lose votes from this lunatic fringe. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Poor GOP.

[DuPageDem]

09:53 AM on 02/05/2010

Notice how every "news" organization finds it must devote all kinds of resources to cover this cluser#@$% of 600 wackadoodles. There are more reporters than participants. Yet when when hundreds of thousands of sane Americans filled the national mall in 2003 to protest the Iraq war, hardly anyone covered it (so it never happened). Would you like more proof that the media cartel is pure corporate propaganda?

[mcmutter]

09:13 AM on 02/05/2010

never trust any Teabagger .....

[fairplaystacy]

08:47 AM on 02/05/2010

I'm sure he newly revealed tax problems will endear her to their group all the more

[WOODSTOCKER51]

07:42 AM on 02/05/2010

“BUSH GAVE HUGE TAX CUTS TO THE WEALTHY.......WHAT WAS THE END RESULT?...JOBS DISAPPEARED...HE GAVE HUGE TAX BREAKS TO CORPORATIONS...WHAT WAS THE END RESULT???.MORE JOBS DISAPPEARED..............teabaggers...make a note of this.ok?

[dildenusa]

10:45 AM on 02/05/2010

Well, actually they built too many houses. Then sold people mortgages that they couldn't afford. Then the jobs disappeared.

[Bloggerrogr]

10:57 AM on 02/05/2010

Actually, here's how it all went down:
ACORN, Republican financial mismanagement and CDS’s the real story:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/16/1002/9542/629/660423

It's a bit of a long read, but lays out the entire plot.

FWIW

[The last sane American]

07:20 AM on 02/05/2010

"Fractures emerge as Tea Party convenes" Trumpets CNN.

And the fracture is??????????????????????????????????

"In November, Tea Party groups received credit for affecting the outcome of a special election for New York's 23rd Congressional District. Local Republican leaders backed state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava because they thought she would appeal to centrists and independents."

Come on Kristi. You should be able to do better than that. 3 months old "NON-News"

[WOODSTOCKER51]

06:58 AM on 02/05/2010

"According to the report, Shelby is holding Obama's nominees hostage until a pair of lucrative programs that would send billions in taxpayer dollars to his home state get back on track. The two programs Shelby wants to move forward or else:"

HEY TEABAGGERS!.......LOOKS WHOS HOLDING THE UNITED STAES HOSTAGE FOR ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE COMPLAINTS..........."EARMARKS".....AND LOOK WHO IT IS!!!.

.A REPUBLICAN FROM DIXIELAND.......SHAME ON HIM!.........ADD HIS NAME TO YOUR HIT LIST......UNDER "LIARS WHO STEAL TAXPAYERS MONEY FOR THEIR OWN GOOD."

[The last sane American]

07:23 AM on 02/05/2010

Are you saying "what is right for the goose, is right for the gander"?

[WOODSTOCKER51]

07:30 AM on 02/05/2010

.......teabaggers and conservitives like to point a finger at "the bad guys'...........and....."look who the bad guys are"?.............

[loki]

02:29 AM on 02/05/2010

the tea party is the republican party. instead of hoods, they put bags on.

[wanda665]

07:53 AM on 02/05/2010

agree, loki.

[ThankGodhesgone]

02:26 AM on 02/05/2010

THe best news that I've heard all day.

THe teapots have no unified message. THey are all just angry, predominantly white people with several axes go grind.

[FloridaDem]

12:12 AM on 02/05/2010

$350 to hear Sarah Palin give a speech? No way!!

[msgirlintn]

12:47 AM on 02/05/2010

Plus $550 for the convention. Rooms at the Opryland Hotel run from $200-$300 per night and the food is expensive.

And the teabaggers are protesting against wasteful spending.

[moongal6]

02:19 AM on 02/05/2010

Yup. They scream about hypocrisy, but, rarely see their own.

[WOODSTOCKER51]

06:59 AM on 02/05/2010

$3.50 WOULD BE TOO MUCH.........."FREEDOM OF SPEECH " HAS THE WORD 'FREE" IN IT.NO??