For those of you keeping track: Tea Party Jamboree Canceled Due to Lack of Interest

[Contrary1]

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"It is with a great deal of heartfelt disappointment from those of us on Freedom Jamboree’s “grassroots” organizing committee and the Tea Party Founding Father’s 501(c)3 that we are now compelled to announce the cancellation of Freedom Jamboree in Kansas City this fall.

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A careful look at our website on July 1 showed only 62 Tea Party groups had registered for the event on-line nationwide. Considering an average of roughly 30 people per group, these numbers did not translate into a significant portion of Tea Parties for a national convention or straw poll. Of those groups that had registered few had paid their delegate fees, the only fee required to help pay for the event besides parking and vendor fees. By this time we should have had a minimum of 350 Tea Parties to go forward, especially with county bond and contractor start-up payments imminent. Our committee could not go forward paying these without the assurance that we could complete them fully and on-time, and thereby conduct a successful “debt-free” event.

Our committee has speculated for the last month why registrations from the Tea Parties have been so low, with some emails and phone calls suggesting that the poor economy, national debt, high fuel prices, unemployment, double-dip recession, fear about the future (all the usual suspects), as well as political frustration with elected officials in both parties, and political burnout as principle reasons. Others have said that many groups just don’t want to do anything outside of their own states this year, and are in disagreement with other groups about what and who the Tea Party movement should support and represent. There is some disarray in the movement right now as to its next move. The fact is, the spirit intrinsic in 2009 has diminished nationwide, and some lethargy and weariness persists..."

You can find a link to this sad, sad news at Mudflats: http://www.themudflats.net/2011/07/16/oyster-roundup-bastards-flee-palin-flops-and-traffickers-wed/

[Safetykitten]

1. Well there's always that country bear thing with them singing. Too cute!

[PCIntern]

2. Well, Me and the Missus are gonna have to find sumpin else to do

that weekend...

:sarcasm: of course...

[firehorse]

3. what a shame, maybe its because it was the same day as the Palin movie?

[Rageneau]

4. Mobs ain't as much fun once the lynching's been done.

[MineralMan]

5. They misnamed the party. If it had been the Beer Party or

the Jack Daniels Party, they wouldn't be having these problems today, IMO. You can only drink so much tea, really.

[CarmanK]

6. The tparty peaked in 2010. Their hate is dissipating and Exhausting

There is only so much hate that can energize and keep people motivated. Hate is draining and exhausting. The tparty is motivated by hate, not true patriotism that energizes. In addition, the rich guys got what they wanted from the tparty.

[asjr]

7. Darn! The Mad Hatter would have been

the main speaker. AKA Michelle Bachmann

[zeemike]

8. Kind of falls apart when Koch quits paying for it...

no free buss rides to the event and they are not interested.

[BlueCaliDem]

9. Awww...did corporate funding dry up so they couldn't travel for free? K&R! eom

[spanone]

10. the teaparty is officially the republican party...no difference at all.

[EC]

11. Freedom works and those other organizations

aren't throwing money at them anymore or organizing bus loads of paid shills to go to these events...So now we see just how many real grassroots people there were compared to the bussed in screamers.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

12. This makes me super SAD!!!

:rofl:

[David Gill]

13. Don't celebrate this

This is exactly what the Republicans want. They were willing to rile up their fringe base to drive up turnout in a mid-term election, but now that a Presidential year is coming they're trying to shut them up. These people are in some ways victims of the GOP- unwitting puppets at the very least.

If the Republicans are successful at shutting this part of the base out it's going to be harder for Democrats to retake the house. That's why I'm hoping the Tea Party just keeps rolling on, nominating lunatics with no chance at a general election like Christine O'Donnell, and Sharron Angle.

[Control-Z]

16. I was hoping for a third party,

teabagger presidential candidate, myself.

[DCKit]

14. OMG, y'all ^ are such dicks! Too funny. nt

[AC_Mem]

15. So in other words,

the Koch Brothers aren't paying to bus the TeaPottier's in and pay for their events anymore.


Oh boo freaking hoo. You have been used up and spit out by the billionaires.

Annette

[quaker bill]

17. Political "flame out"

The punch line is that these folks believe in an individualistic approach to life in general, and largely aren't all that bright. It is hard to make a party of them. Secondly the republican PTB are not all that sure that an effective tea party movement remains useful. The elected representatives of the movement are not coming on board with repug orthodoxy, so they have stopped funding the astroturf.

It was a fad.

[11 Bravo]

18. Dayum, don't that knock yore dick in the dirt?

Me 'n Caleb sold some of our crystal stash jes to buy a couple of them goofy lookin' hats! Now where we gone wear 'em? Sheeit, Caleb even went and painted his pecker red, white, and blue (the boy's a great American, but now his missus is lookin' at him kinda strange).