Tea party summit in Virginia likely to draw 2,000

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Tea party summit in Virginia likely to draw 2,000

By Rosalind S. Helderman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 8, 2010

RICHMOND - More than 2,000 tea party activists are expected to descend on Virginia's capital city Friday for a two-day summit thought to be the largest state gathering by the loosely affiliated conservative movement.

The Virginia Tea Party Patriot Convention will eclipse a similar event held in Tennessee in February and will feature a presidential straw poll that convention organizers are billing as the first of its kind to measure support for 2012 candidates.
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"Virginians are knowledgeable about the foundational principles of our country," said former U.S. senator George Allen (R), explaining the movement's popularity in the state.

Allen will be speaking on a panel Saturday with Virginia Attorney Gen. Ken Cuccinelli II (R), offering Allen a chance to reconnect with the conservative activists who helped propel him to the governor's mansion in 1993. Allen is weighing a 2012 run against U.S. Sen. James Webb (D), who defeated him in 2006.

Our Stepford AG speaks:

Cuccinelli: Tea party 'hasn't peaked'

RT-D: Do you consider yourself a tea-party member?

Cuccinelli: Not a member -- a groupie. I don't think they really appreciate having elected official members. We're all suspect to some degree, and even on a friendly basis, it's meant to keep us all in line, and that's just fine with me.

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1. Well, we better get every camera in the world on them.

They will be inviting all their imaginary friends to their Tea-baggery party, so every camera needs to record their idiotic ignorance.

You never know when one of them are going to so badly mangle the English language that you wonder if they ever made it out of the 8th grade.

And you have to love all the things they hate like government, equality, fairness, compassion, taxes and of course the US President.

But our corporate RepubliCON media will be there fawning over every idiotic comment.

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2. Wow, 2000! Hope they reserved enough Porta-Potties!