Vegas Hotel: The Tea Party Convention Is Canceled

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Vegas Hotel: The Tea Party Convention Is Canceled
Evan McMorris-Santoro | September 20, 2010, 1:44PM

According to the Las Vegas hotel that was supposed to play host to the second national tea party convention, the much-hyped event has been canceled. Organizers of the convention haven't returned my calls, but grassroots tea party leaders I talked to today said that they haven't heard a word about the convention in awhile -- and Nevada leaders told me that if the event is canceled, good riddance.

If the convention really is off, the loss of the event will stand as the third high-profile tea party organizing fail in a month. With the election rapidly approaching, the failure of the LibertyXPO in DC this month, the second DC 9/12 rally and now the second convention suggest those that hope to leverage the movement for big, nationally-covered productions may have tapped out the tea party grassroots.

The evidence is certainly mounting that the convention -- which was moved from its original July date to October 14 earlier this year -- is officially not happening. First, Tea Party Nation, the controversial group that many tea partiers reject as a fake, has removed all reference to the event from its website (see a cached version of the page here to get a look at the convention's former prominence on the site.) When I called the Mirage, the hotel where the convention was supposed to take place, the sales office told me the event was canceled last week.

Judson Phillips, Tea Party Nation spokesperson and the organizer of the event, didn't answer his cell phone when I called. Mark Scuda, the Memphis, Tennessee tea party leader who helped organize the first convention in Nashville, told me he's not involved in organizing the Vegas convention and didn't know if it was happening or not.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/did-the-second-tea-party-unity-convention-crash-and-burn.php

[Kdillard]

1. I love the smell of fail.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

2. Those bufoons couldn't manage their way out of a wet paper bag. nt

[CitizenLeft]

3. trying really hard to be adult and mature and not gloat.

Fuck it.

:rofl:

bwaaaaahahahahahaha!

[liberal N proud]

4. Is that burnt tea that I smell?

The Tea Baggers are toast!

[louis-t]

5. Tea Party Nation is a fake and so are

all of the tea-party candidates.

[impik]

6. They are meaningless. It's one big hoax. The election is ours to win or lose

If we show up to vote - we'll win. That is all.

[AspenRose]

12. I agree.

I don't think the general public really likes or trusts the GOP.

[damntexdem]

7. Whatcha want to bet the mainstream GOP is doing its best to shut it down?

That soon before the election, they don't want to media showing off the kooks and kookiness of a Tea Party Convention.

[CoffeeCat]

8. That's exactly what I thought...

They've got to hide their shameful party members (and their signs!) so close to the election.

Whatever person or persons bankrolled the tea partiers--created a political Frankenstein. I'm
sure, someone felt that their base needed to be whipped up and frothing with racism and anger--
so they could vote in high numbers.

They didn't expect that these buffoons would be such an embarrassment, and that they would have
their own batshit crazy, unelectable candidates.

I bet you anything its the Republican establishment shutting them down. Look at what Rove
said about them.

[Alcibiades]

9. +1

The GOP donors poured money into it to energize the base for the election. Now that they have realized that they helped to nominate so many unelectable fringe candidates, the spigot has been turned off.

[opihimoimoi]

10. Who do I see about a refund??? Bwaaaa,,,where is my REFUND?????

lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtSqrk6fIek&NR=1

The Baggers need good kine music perhaps

dj otzi

[marlakay]

11. it was just a republican scam but it worked for them

to get repubs elected so far...hopefully in nov that won't happen...