Tea Party Running Short On Cash

Politico:

Some leading tea party activists are concerned that their efforts to reshape American politics, starting with the 2010 elections, are being undermined by a shortage of cash that's partly the result of a deep ambivalence within the movement's grassroots over the very idea of fundraising, and partly attributable to an inability to win over the wealthy donors who fund the conservative establishment.

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Comments

[thaggas]

03:45 PM on 08/10/2010

What?!?! You can't get paid for being an American-flag-wearing, concealed-weapon-toting, illiterate-sign-waving, diabetic nutcase in a lawn chair???

Who knew?

[littlebrowngirl]

03:39 PM on 08/10/2010

I think their government unemployment checks ran out . . .

[EastTraveler]

03:28 PM on 08/10/2010

"Tea Party Running Short On Cash"

Well they have also been running short on character for a while too....

[TexasDem0]

03:22 PM on 08/10/2010

Of course they’re running low on cash. The deep pockets of the right wing extremists who financed them in the beginning finally realized the TP clown parade is in conflict with the GOP clown parade.

[studmoose]

03:08 PM on 08/10/2010

Support that 2% tax break for the rich, while...

you guys are forced to turn tricks to pay the rent.

[halfpricefaustian]

03:00 PM on 08/10/2010

Seems to me that the biggest problem the tea party has (aside from all the political/social issues) is that they are not a political party. Their candidates run as republicans. If they want to be a real party, they will have to compete with the republican and libertarian parties for money from people of their political and social bent. That will just further fragment the conservative base. Besides, the people who donate to republicans do so because they know that when the chips are down, the republicans will bring government to the rescue, and the tea partiers would not.

[oldngrumpy]

02:53 PM on 08/10/2010

This is a "pseudo movement". It was originally financed and organized by the GOP in answer to the threat of meaningful health care reform. Since then, it has gotten out of hand and the tail began wagging the dog, forcing the GOP to take positions immensely unpopular with independents. It only stands to reason that the corporate donors and the GOP would cut them loose eventually to die an unfunded death. It had to be now because Bachmann, in her political ignorance, made many of the uber conservative nut jobs think they were viable candidates. The GOP got burned in Nevada and they certainly don't want any more Sharon Angles embarrassing them through association.

[way2sunny]

09:03 PM on 08/10/2010

Great points all. Thing is they're stuck with them now, or at least whoever remains once the money runs out and the attention fades. Like the religious righties, they have nowhere else to go.

Fanned and faved

[Billy Jack]

01:49 PM on 08/10/2010

They can always pay with chickens

[HerbTee]

01:49 PM on 08/10/2010

"Tea Party Running Short On Cash"

The scrotebaggers are running short on pretty much everything else including civility, decorum, common sense, education and tolerance of others. The scrotebaggers have consistently come up short on about every scale possible, especially the human evolutionary scale.

[way2sunny]

01:35 PM on 08/10/2010

The typical tea party supporter isn't the type of person who donates their own money to political causes. The corporations who provided the initial money are expecting these people to dig into their own bank accounts to keep things going -- it's not going to happen. Their signs, their presence at rallies (as long as the bus ride is free) their screaming for the cameras -- that IS their contribution. They don't want to pay taxes to keep basic services in their own cities going, of course they're not going to start writing checks to the GOP now. If they give money to anyone, it's to their own Angle type candidates. Good luck with that.

[skinsqb17]

12:56 PM on 08/10/2010

did the corporations notice that the teapot demographic is the shrinking one? seems like only yesterday that they had us "surrounded."

[ColoradoTaxpayer]

12:53 PM on 08/10/2010

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100050002/the-obama-presidency-increasingly-resembles-a-modern-day-ancien-regime-extravagant-and-out-of-touch-with-ordinary-people/#dsq-content

To get a good taste of just how disconnected from reality the mainstream media has become in the United States, simply read the articles complaining about how Obama has accomplished so much but his poll numbers are dropping because he isn't getting credit for everything he's done. It never seems to cross their minds that his poll numbers are dropping *because* of what he's accomplished. They also don't seem to have a clue that their bias is what created the popularity of talk radio and then Fox News in the United States

[SaveTheMarshMouse]

01:34 PM on 08/10/2010

Oh please - written by Nile Gartner of the Heritage Foundation?
Next thing you know baggers will believe that monkeys are being trained to kill our soldiers...
oh wait..they already did...
http://www.thefoxnation.com/international/2010/07/13/taliban-training-primates
When does batboy marry a Palin?

[way2sunny]

01:55 PM on 08/10/2010

Excellent reply f&f!

[TeraWatt60]

12:41 PM on 08/10/2010

The 'parents'/owners of the Tea Baggers decided that they did not "play well with others" and so are giving them a time out...no more money until you have had your nap and act like responsible citizens, instead of the petulant entitled brats you have been so far.

[ColoradoTaxpayer]

12:25 PM on 08/10/2010

http://belowthebeltway.com/2010/08/09/jack-conway-campaign-worker-poses-as-racist-rand-paul-supporter/

and the left just keeps on trying but keep on getting caught. lol

[SaveTheMarshMouse]

01:47 PM on 08/10/2010

You were saying.....

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/acorn-pimp-charged-wiretap-louisiana-senator/

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/r/17789356/detail.html

http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/07/busted-gop-pollster-bob-moore-caught-lying-twice-bend-bulletin/

[iconoclast6]

12:21 PM on 08/10/2010

Don't ya LOVE how the shrill little crybaby baggers, flag every post in this thread that doesn't kiss their fatarzez?

You baggers are a bunch of VaJJ McJJSteins

[TexasDem0]

03:26 PM on 08/10/2010

Yes, I also love how THEIR First Amendment rights include screeching and shouting over everyone ELSE’s First Amendment rights.