Tea Party thousands rally in Reid’s tiny town

[TomCADem]

Source: MSNBC

LAS VEGAS - Sarah Palin and thousands of tea party activists were gathering at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's small hometown in the Nevada desert Saturday to call for the ouster of Democrats who supported the health care overhaul.

Organizers predict as many as 10,000 people could come to attend the so-called "Showdown in Searchlight," the hardscrabble former mining town where the Senate Democratic leader grew up and owns a home. Searchlight's population is 798, according to the travelnevada.com Web site.

However, a light turnout or disruptions could lead to questions about the emerging movements' credibility and direction.

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Now a Fox News analyst and potential 2012 presidential candidate, Palin faced criticism after posting a map on her Facebook page that had circles and cross hairs over 20 Democratic districts. She also sent a tweet saying, "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!"


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36058234/ns/politics/

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Palin is one of the headline speakers. Well, this does it. I am going to contribute to Harry Reid's campaign.

[mwb970]

1. Can they really get 10K people to come to the middle of nowhere for this?

Even to see $arah? It seems like a stretch, but who knows?

[MorningGlow]

3. Well, you know teabagger math

Their 10,000 is everyone else's 75.

[jaysunb]

32. +1

:rofl: too true.

check out the pics
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8032115

300 max !

[tom_paine]

39. Always works better with a cowed and complicit Corporate-Controlled M$M to launder their lies

This is a taste of what it must have felt like to live under the Orwellian double-standards of the old Soviet Union.

[happygoluckytoyou]

56. 10000..... they just count the teeth and DIVIDE BY 2

[tanyev]

4. Maybe they're not counting in base 10?

:shrug:

[lapfog_1]

13. 10,000 base 2 is 16 base 10... sounds about right. - n/t

[Raschel]

7. They're not doing anything else. Most of them are retired, living on socialist incomes.

They've been their for a few days now with their RVs and hoverounds.

Remember, most of the enthralled are older White women, wearing short pencil jeans with white socks. They're waiting to get a look at their glam idol, Palin.

[msongs]

2. media lies again - it is republican tea party not an independent group nt

[Mz Pip]

5. as many as 10,000

could come. Could is the operative word here. Though even if only 500 show up Fox will report there were at least a billion. :eyes:

[Moosepoop]

10. Yeah, and even that figure that "could" come

came from the event's organizers, probably hoping to give Fox a number to run with when far fewer actually show up.

[Raschel]

6. They're so gimmicky. Could a reporter please ask someone why teabaggers

are all White since they are a supposedly fighting a political cause? They're not fighting for White causes but supposed issues. Why all White?

Even the civil rights movement had White people along side them.

Why are the teabaggers all White? Would you stupid news channels ask the question!

[Ozymanithrax]

8. My sister is a waitress in Searchlight.

I hope the Teaparty douchebags are good tippers.

[Lautremont]

9. I'm sure they're every bit as generous as Steve Buscemi in Reservoir Dogs.

[Ozymanithrax]

12. I suspect you are right.

Though I do know that the Hells Angels, who have a meeting there about every year, are good tippers.

[Blue-Jay]

20. Bikers are always good tippers.

I miss the days when my old band used to play primarily in biker bars. Those guys would request a song (that we were probably going to play anyway) and either slip us a twenty or buy a round. There were two places owned by bikers where I never paid for anything, no matter when I'd pop in.

[Mopar151]

31. When NHIS was built, a reporter asked about tippers

A local resturaunteur replied, on the difference between NASCAR fans and IndyCar fans. "I gotta be diplomatic - but NASCAR fans understand how our people make their money!"

[Plucketeer]

11. I think we're missing the point here

When the TeaBaggers proclaim these events were attended by thousands (and it's obvious there were a couple hundred PEOPLE, at best!), I think maybe they counting the little critters their bodies are hosts to. I won't defame so explicitly as to suggest exactly what sorta "critters" I'm suggesting, but suffice it to say that there's ointments and shampoos to deal with them if they make you feel uncomfortable! :yoiks:

[Frank Cannon]

22. You have just gravely insulted every head and pubic louse in America...

by associating them with these people.

[Plucketeer]

27. And for such slight

I bear real remorse. But I WAS groping for a shred of truth as to how they could claim such attendance numbers in the face of what was visible! Maybe my logic could give new meaning to the term "Head Count"? :rofl:

[caseymoz]

14. I thought one rule of protesting was . . .

Try to protest somewhere significant. The town of Harry Reid's birth seems a strange venue, especially when it's main attraction seems to be its searchlight :)

I wonder what kind of rake-off Palin will be getting for this speech, and how many teabaggers are alienated from the movement as a result.

This movement, IMO, is not built for success.

[lunatica]

51. In a town of less than 800 people where will Sarah Palin stay?

Are they all going to pitch tents? And are they going to go to restaurants and bad mouth their Senator? This could turn into a pretty interesting story.

[lunatica]

52. Every town in Nevada has slot machines

That'll distract the teabaggers.

[caseymoz]

58. lol. Good. They'll come out of it broke.

There couldn't be a greater irony here.

[caseymoz]

15. lol, By "reload" Palin says she was referring to votes, not guns?

You mean as in stuffing the ballot box, Sarah? Or somebody "reloading" their vote? That has to be about the stupidest thing she has ever said. Where are those federal prosecutors who investigated ACORN?

After Dick Cheney, I don't know if the teabaggers could have chosen a slimier person to be ad hoc hero. And she's comparable in intelligence to Dubya.

[lunatica]

53. Yeah, I reload every time I go vote

Doesn't everyone?

[PJPhreak]

16. They are calling this event the "Showdown in Searchlight."

WTF?? These Gauno Loco idiots are making this sound like one of those horrible Spaghetti Westerns from the late 60's or early 70's.

Que the bad music,strange camera angles and B rated actors.

[AlbertCat]

37. and B rated actors.

Reagan?

[lunatica]

54. They just can't get enough of the gun references can they

Showdown, reload, rifle scopes? Yaheeee! Saddle up Pilgrims. We're headed to the Wild Wild West! And don't forget to brung your six shooters there, also.

[Kirbster]

17. Nothing pisses off a small town like having a bunch of rowdy , uninvited outsiders

disrupting things and dissing a local. This will backfire on the Tea Party in a big way.

[Brother Buzz]

21. Harry Reid is embracing the interlopers

"Searchlight doesn't get many tourists so I'm glad they are choosing to bring all their out-of-state money to my hometown. The influx of money will do the town some good. I encourage everyone to drop by the Nugget to say hello to Verlie and grab a 10 cent cup of coffee." - Harry Reid

I would assume rowdy and disruptive behavior will be dealt with in an appropriate manor. Yes, their will be Blowback if Palin et al. can't keep them under control, and that's what the nation will be watching.

[John Q. Citizen]

29. I bet the convience store likes it.

Probably selling lots of six packs and chips.

[No Elephants]

18. I'm having an event next week. I say, AS MANY AS a billion COULD attend.

What a meaningful statement!

:eyes:

[Roland99]

19. MSNBC got the headline wrong. It should read: Terrorist Party.

[zonkers]

23. Tea baggers are their own worse PR.

[Yeahyeah]

24. How many bozos will buzz over to be with their leather queen bee?

[sallyseven]

25. The good kind people of Searchlight

Do not deserve this kind of treatment. Reid is a good man and worked hard for Health Care to pass. Tea baggers are nuts and belong in a jail. They are threatening people for doing the right thing.

[on point]

26. Somebody local plz post a sign "Delusional Sucker Convention this way"

[AlbertCat]

38. "Delusional Sucker Convention this way"

Remember "Love and Death"? That Woody Allen film? They take their village idiot to the Village Idiot Convention and there's a big banner over the road reading "Welcome Idiots!"


That would work!

Love and Death-panels

[SoapBox]

28. Tin foil hat party in the dirt...Be there!

Yes, TeaScreechBaggers...PLEASE take your trailer out in the middle of no place
just like all the other cults and nuts have done.

[LTR]

30. Pretty ridiculous that all these lemmings work so damned hard to whore for the health industry

and right-wing think tanks.

Seriously, are these people really that freakin' stupid?

That's what I've always wondered about the Tea Party movement. They seriously have no clue as to what's good for them. And I'll bet a lot of these losers have Medicare cards in their wallets and have no clue where they came from!

[struggle4progress]

33. .. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is sending dozens of uniformed and plainclothes officers

to patrol the crowd ..

Palin, tea party to rally in Sen. Reid's hometown
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD (AP) – 4 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hwGWYF9jyiZS24294TSIRn0WkIZwD9EN0N6O0

[Mz Pip]

44. Fox will count them

as supporters of the tea party and inflate the numbers even more.

[wordpix]

47. "The rally that's been called a conservative Woodstock"---what an oxyMORON

conservative = anti-health care, anti-commonwealth, anti-environment, pro-gun, pro-war, pro-Kristallnacht tactics

Woodstock = peace, love, antiwar, sharing and taking care of each other

:crazy:

[Bennyboy]

50. IT ahs turned into Conservative Altamont now....(Guy gets beat by Teabaggers)

http://www.abc15.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=[e-mail]

[Aviation Pro]

34. So how's that gimmicky - mavericky - exploitymybaby thingy....

...coming for you Sarah Assclown?

[momster]

35. I think there are more teapublicans posting on MSNBC's

newsvine than there are at Searchlight.

Ugly stuff, too.

[AlbertCat]

36. Organizers predict as many as 10,000 people could come

And I predict that each one of them will win the lottery....






but will ever collect because the Earth will be destroyed in 2012.





Thank you, and good night.






:eyes:

[MadMaddie]

40. Reid's wife and daughter are still recovering from their injuries

I hope that Sarah and ALL the protesters suffer the same rudeness and selfishness when their families are in times of trouble.

I am sorry but that is the only way for these people to understand that this is not all right and it's not acceptable behavior.

I guarantee when they leave they will leave piles of garbage etc for the small town to clean up. That's just how they roll...

[NecklyTyler]

41. Misery love company and the Tbaggers are truly miserable people

[Faygo Kid]

42. I found her comment about stopping the Subaru disturbing.

Something along the lines of, the next time a Subaru with an Obama bumper sticker passes you (or you pass it), STOP THEM, then ask, "How's that hopey-changey thing working out for ya?"

Besides the utter stupidity of it, what's with this "stopping" someone in a moving car and challenging them? Is that a subtle allusion to the action of the guy ramming the car with the Obama sticker?

She shortly then said she "had nothing against Subarus" (ha-ha), but by then the message had been delivered.

The code word is clear: Confrontation. And neither she nor Beck mean just at rallies. I hear "by any means necessary" when she speaks. So long as it lines her pockets, she will say anything.

Caveat: Didn't listen to much more than that. Couldn't do it. I have a strong stomach, but not that strong.

[Mz Pip]

43. If someone stopped me

and bothered me with that question, my response would be "A whole lot better than that nopey dopey thing is working out for you."

[Faygo Kid]

48. I would add a Joe Biden term between "whole" and "better"

Then call the cops for that person having stopped my car.

[karynnj]

57. fantastic nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

45. "...and thousands..."

30,000,000 in the streets didn't catch "their" attention but "thousands" will do it.

Odd.

[wordpix]

46. more "showdown" shoot-em-up rhetoric---this idiot should stop her yap

but she won't unless she does something illegal in a big way

[DebbieCDC]

49. CNN's website reports "crowd numbered in the thousands"

Meh, cowards -- too scared to give the real numbers.

[goclark]

55. CNN is a bunch of crap!

If it was a crowd of Democrats it would be, " Small group of Democrats gathered in Time Square - about 699 people."

[NYC Liberal]

59. "Organizers predict" .. yeah ok. What are the 'Baggers going to say,

"We predict our turnout will suck"?

I'll wait to see some actual numbers.

[depakid]

60. Few things that could have bolstered Reid at this point- these nutballs were one of them

I'm sure Harry appreciates the help.

[cory777]

61. Palin defends use of gun imagery while campaigning against Reid's reelection

Source: The Hill

By Alexander Bolton - 03/27/10 05:16 PM ET

Sarah Palin urged a rally of 10,000 conservatives in Searchlight, Nev., to defeat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and defended her use of gun imagery in the campaign.

Palin was star speaker of a rally organized by the Tea Party Express, a national bus tour that will hold rallies across the country, beginning in Searchlight on Saturday and ending in Washington on April 15, when federal taxes are due.

Reid (D-Nev.) grew up in tiny town of Searchlight, population under 800, and still lives there when not in Washington. Crowds choked the streets and clogged the interstate highway into town with a mile-long traffic jam.

Reid was out of town attending a ceremony in nearby Clark County to mark the opening of a 2,900-acre shooting park he helped establish.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/89483-palin-defeds-use-of-gun-imagery-while-campaigning-against-reid

[havocmom]

62. She can't have it both ways. Cross hairs on map, HER web page, is not the media making shit up

"We're not inciting violence. Don't get sucked into the lame-stream media lies."

Mrs. Palin gets spooked and claims she isn't inciting, while defending her 'right to incite'

And that seems logical to her fawning fans?

Mental health care. We need it.

[Bitwit1234]

63. Well we could turn it back on her. Paint a crosshair on her ass

and tell people that would make a good place to start cleaning out the s**t from the tea bags. Give em a taste of their own medicine.

[Jax]

64. You posted this cory777 so how do YOU feel about this?

Alyce

On edit:

This source is The Hill. Right???

[Name removed]

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[cory777]

68. I feel

that you and sarah palin have a lot in common. You are both JAX-ASSES!

[jobycom]

65. I wonder if she's ever thought anything she's done wasn't perfect.

[Gargoyle22]

66. My gut tells me they are actually helping Reid's re-election prospects.

xxx