Tea Party’s Woodstock fantasy: Cliven Bundy as the wingnuts’ latest ’60s-style protest hero

[DonViejo]

Conservative baby boomers finally have their very own anti-establishment festivals. The latest will crack you up

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

Ever since the Tea party started holding events back in 2009 it’s been clear that this is the conservative baby boomers’ long awaited chance to be a counterculture. They wear funny hats, they sing songs, they hold up signs (and if they had the courage of their convictions they’d even burn their Social Security cards). Tea Party protests are their Woodstock. In fact, they’ve said so explicitly:

Tea Party activists are kicking off a grand national tour this weekend with an event targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in his small home town of Searchlight, Nevada –an event that Tea Party Express describes as a “conservative Woodstock.”

Tomorrow’s “Showdown In Searchlight” event will feature none other than Sarah Palin, campaigning against the Senate Dem leader. A press release from Tea Party Express boasts of supporters arriving to camp out: “It doesn’t get closer to a ‘Conservative Woodstock’ than this.”

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[Feral Child]

1. Laughable.

Inept fever-dream.

[packman]

2. So on Monday

the day after the weekend protest, can we expect to see multiple pictures of misspelled signs held up in protest. And, if Sarah is going to be there, should we expect Ted Nugent as the entertainment?

[jmowreader]

6. Also Madison Rising and the Right Brothers

Naah...it'll be a long list of Neues Country bands.

[yellowcanine]

3. DU should sponsor some portapotties in the names of various Republican leaders.

We could have an orange one identified as Boehner's Office, for example.

[Blue Idaho]

4. I will make a prediction...

There will be more guns than people at this klan meeting.

[LoisB]

5. Wonder how much they're paying Palin to show up.

[jmowreader]

7. $50,000, a private jet and bendy straws

How hard would it be to get her a C-17 and a one way trip to Afghanistan?

[flying rabbit]

8. Yes

This sounds EXACTLY like Woodstock. Once again conservatives unleash the fury of their cluelessness.