Tea Party Convention Is Canceled

[SecularMotion]

Source: NY Times

The Tea Party is off.

At least, the National Tea Party Unity Convention that was being planned for mid-October in Las Vegas is off. It was supposed to be a repeat of the convention in Nashville last February, which drew 600 “delegates” (and almost as many reporters) and an adoring audience for Sarah Palin, the keynote speaker.

Sponsored by Tea Party Nation, a social networking site, the convention was supposed to emphasize Tea Party groups working together — a contrast to the convention in February, which was plagued by infighting among groups, with sponsors and speakers dropping out right up until its opening hours. Organizers chose Las Vegas not least because it is the center of the Senate race that Tea Party activists would most dearly love to win, with Sharron Angle, a Republican supported by Tea Party groups, challenging Harry Reid, the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate.

Barbee Kinnison, a Tea Party activist in Las Vegas who had been helping organize the convention, sent an email to supporters saying that it was with “deep sorrow” that she had to announce “the convention is just not going to happen.”

Read more: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/tea-party-convention-is-canceled/

[Arkana]

1. Aaaaaahahahahahahaha.

Couldn't pry themselves out of their parents' basements long enough?

[joeybee12]

2. Because the Tea Party is not as big as the MSM would want you to believe...

I live in Vegas...this is good news.

[Blue_Tires]

22. +1000

[YvonneCa]

23. It is...

...good news. :)

[Scuba]

26. Bingo.

[opihimoimoi]

3. AWWwwwwwwwhhhhh. ...auwe....auwe......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF0EcRethKs&feature=related

Come, we go SING

[KansDem]

4. And these are the folks who are going to "take back their country" by trouncing the Dems in Nov?

They can't even manage a convention!!! :rofl:

More evidence that the grass-roots<sic> "Tea Party Revolution" is merely a media blitz backed by billionaires.

But we need to vote just the same!:dem:

[Roland99]

5. That's what happens when a group is NOT a grassroots group but, instead, put together by the rich...

in order to manipulate the intended audience.

[YvonneCa]

24. Exactly. Read the comments...they are PRICELESS. n/t

[gristy]

28. Indeed. I read every one. Surely the comment section is moderated, though.

I saw just one right-wing dissenter.

[bullwinkle428]

6. Excerpts are priceless! Here are some examples...

"A group called Unite in Action had hoped to have a three-day Tea Party extravaganza of seminars and rallies in Washington starting Sept. 10, but Ms. Kinnison said that classrooms that the group had set up for 500 people ended up with only 5 in them."

"And a rally held by FreedomWorks that Sunday, while large, was far smaller than the one the group held a year ago."

"The convention had already been postponed once, in July. Organizers said then that the midsummer heat in Las Vegas was making it hard to sell tickets."


:nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[MilesColtrane]

18. "(the) classrooms that the group had set up for 500 people ended up with only 5 in them."

That's their problem right there.

Your average teabagger hasn't stepped foot in a classroom since he dropped out of the 7th grade.

[icnorth]

29. And setting up paper cut outs to replace the

495 missing teabaggers for the photo shoot was just too expensive and too much work.

[merh]

7. .

[Mr. Sparkle]

8. How many Conventions do these freaks need to have?

They are more like fund raisers these days

[customerserviceguy]

9. I'm not surprised

Last year's convention was an attempt by one individual to get himself branded by the media as a leader of the movement, now it's spiraled completely beyond his control. It's success is because it does not have a single, fallible leader.

It resembles the way the anti-war movement started and flourished in the late 60's and early 70's. While people in that movement looked up to quite a few popular figures, no single person was its' undisputed leader. No, I am not saying that the anti-war movement and the tea party are the same thing, I'm just comparing the way that they both evolved in American society.

[madrchsod]

10. well they would have to find a ...

non union all white staff at a convention center...i`d say that`s just about impossible

[Plucketeer]

11. Attending this "event"

would've jeapordized the continuity of prospective attendant's unemployment checks! :rofl:

[xchrom]

12. Too bad, so sad -- but

It makes me glad.

[indimuse]

13. KNR! n/t

[happygoluckytoyou]

14. the only REAL teaparty CONVENTION.... speaking loudly and playing with their big stick

[Umbral]

15. they didn't want to remind everyone, right before the election, just how batshit crazy they are.

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. You mean the fake party created by K Street & the M$M, can't get their shit together?

:rofl:

[MadMaddie]

17. That's because they will attend the Republican convention

See they have always been one in the same. This is another way to tie them to the RNC.

[COLGATE4]

19. They can hold their next meeting an the nearest lunatic asylum

[icnorth]

30. Fox Newsroom?? n/t

[IcyPeas]

20. I for one am very disappointed....

we won't have a new batch of misspelled signs to laugh at

:rofl:

[Gman]

21. They chose Las Vegas because it's the cheapest place in the country

for a convention. I figured the organizers pocketed a ton of money from the first one and that's why they wanted to do this one. But as all cluster fucks go, it fell apart.

[defendandprotect]

25. Let's keep in mind T-Party is wholly owned subsidiary of GOP....run out of a PR firm....!!

[lunatica]

27. Are they going out with a whimper?

Awwww

[rustyd55]

31. too bad

they are starting to realize every time palin opens her mouth she puts her foot in it.its too bad the dems need her. the people are starting to understand what they stand for and it is not the majority of americans like they want people to think. you think the majority of americans can afford to travel around the country like them.they rally for big corp and super rich and to make sure there are no rights for the majority of us including healthcare and fair wage if we are lucky to have a job.palin is getting her short period of fame. when people see what a disgrace she is she will hide and we will never hear from her again.

[Frank Cannon]

32. I think when things don't go as well as planned for teabaggers this Nov...

the real Republican string-pullers will finally tell Sarah to put a fucking sock in it.

The only question will be how Sarah will take that, given her enormous ego and lack of brains.