Quayle/Palin in 2012

Will she or won't she? That seems to be the burning question and while liberals want her in the race so they can open fire with everything they got on her there are just as many Republicans who fear Sarah Palin.

Here is the entire 15 minute speech that Sarah Palin gave this weekend in Madison, WI. It is worth watching since it provides something for everyone, but also because it is important to see it in it's entirety and not just view the quickie soundbites.

She was particularly effective comparing candidate Obama's words to President Obama's actions.

For quite a while now I have thought that Ms Palin is best suited in the role of giving speeches such as this and using her power to bring attention to issues more then her ability as a candidate. Her plain outspokenness is her greatest asset. Unrestrained by political insiders who work to make a politician's speech nuanced, she can strike a chord in the American people that they can rally around.

I can not come to a firm decision on the ability of Sarah to wage a successful campaign, but I definitely believe in her power to focus Americans on issues. Her greatest power maybe the ability to take all the attention and focus from the 'declared' candidates while conservatives continue to survey the horizon looking for the cavalry to come charging over the hill to save the day. I will say that I am less then excited about any of the candidates that are in the race so far.

What I like about Ms Palin is in spite of all of the withering criticism and scrutiny and vicious attacks that not only her but her family has had to endure she refuses to back down. There is something to be said for strength of character. This is the same trait exhibited by Rep West (R-FL).

Anyway watch the entire video. It is 15 minutes well spent.

BTW I still want to put out a name from the past who just might be the person to lead the cavalry charge: Dan Quayle.
Here is former VP Quayle with Megyn Kelly from April of 2010 discussing the role of the Tea Party and their impact on politics.

Quayle is the statesman and Palin is the grizzly. I would love to see the chemistry between the two.

Bloomberg: 'Irrational' Tea Party Not a Political Movement

Did someone drop this guy on his head? What kind of nonsense is this?

Mayor Bloomberg went on for quite a while about immigration reform, and about Washington's roadblocks to progress in general during his WOR-AM radio show with host John Gambling, before turning the topic to the Tea Party.

"The wake-up call, John, is called the Tea Party. That's what the Tea Party is. It's funny, it's not a political movement. They don't, they're not pro-choice or pro-life. They're not pro-gun or anti-gun. They're not pro-gay-rights or anti-gay-rights. They're not with any of the social issues."

I'd lay big money most Tea Partiers are pro-Second Amendment, unlike this gun grabber.

And then, Bloomberg, the registered Independent, put the Tea Party in some historical context. "They are a group of people, and you see this every eight, 10 years, there was a Perot boomlet if you remember, and then there's the, there was a McCain boomlet eight, 10 years ago.

Huh? A McCain boomlet? What the hell is he babbling about? DId I somehow miss that "McCain boomlet from 2000 to 2002?

"And it's, 'I'm sick of it.' That's what people are saying. 'I don't know what the answer is, your job is to figure it out, Mr. Congressman, Mr. Senator, Miss President, whatever it is. But I'm just telling you, I'm annoyed. I'm not going to do, I don't want to take this anymore."

The billionaire businessman-turned-Big Apple mayor then turned to the "direction" of the Tea Party.

"And so they cast out," he said, and in many cases they, their casting out may be irrational in terms of the direction they go, but there is the argument that they've listened to both Republicans and Democrats again and again saying, 'If you elect me I'll fix it.'"

This from a guy who was a Democrat, then became a Republican (in name only) to run for mayor, and is now an independent. But it's Tea Partiers who are irrational, not a guy with an identity crisis.

GEICO Spokesperson Hits A Pothole

The guy that does the voice over at the end of the GEICO commercials, D. C. Douglas, has been fired after he thought it would be fun to call the folks at Freedom Works and make some real derogatory comments. Well kharma is a beotch and I guess this loser will have just one more reason to hate the Tea Partiers, but I am glad to see that for once somebody's actions did indeed have consequences.

Besides this is the best GEICO commercial going.

Guess you could say he hit a pothole.

On a related topic, you have to tune in to the Neal Boortz show sometime to hear his promo "You're a Moocher" which uses this "I'm a pothole" format.

CNN + Tea Party = FAIL

It seems the liberal media just cannot get out of its own way. I saw a promising article about the Tea Party rallies over on the CNN web site with the title

Reporter's notebook: What really happens at Tea Party Rallies

I said promising because I thought finally somebody is going to do an article to dispel so many of the myths and stereotypes that surround the folks who attend these events and comprise the movement, but alas, the reporter just continued to perpetuate so many of the half-truths while trying to say he was giving a behind the scenes look.

He repeated the now disproven, or at the very least not proven, charge of protestors hollering racist slurs and spitting on African American members of Congress when they walked right through the opponents of the health care bill in Washington DC, led by Queen Pelosi with her smug, arrogant look and oversized gavel.

He spent almost as much time congratulating himself on working for CNN, which was the only national news organization covering the western swing of the Tea Party Express, as he did retelling so many of the anecdotal stories that somehow go from fantasy to fact in the media in regards to this movement. At the same time, he seemed to be condescending in his comments about how African-American members of the crew were not treated harshly or subject to any racial hatred. He was equally amused that nobody chided him for driving a Volvo and went to great lengths to explain how he came about driving that said Volvo.

You can file this report in the fail folder, just like so many of the other reports. The reporter admits surprise at not being treated badly; in fact, he was treated rather nicely, but only uses that in between repeating the very stereotypes and myths he purports to be trying to dispel.

At least the article shows the bias that exists in the minds of those reporting the news for all to see. He had a preconceived notion of who and what the Tea Party was all about and nothing they did was going to prevent him from continuing the agreed-upon narrative and talking points that the media have decided to use against the hard working Americans who make up the Tea Party.

On the other hand, this is about as close to balanced reporting that you are going to get nowadays. Two or three paragraphs showing that these are average Americans, and the rest of the article repeating the story line about how they really aren't racist Obama haters, but just to remind you I am going to throw out this nugget.

GOP Outcasts Graciously Offer Advice to Tea Partiers

On one side you have backstabber Scott McClellan, a guy who endorsed Obama in 2008, letting us know how "divisive" the Tea Party is, and on the other side we have David Frum, who recently was drummed out of a conservative think tank for his relentless bashing of conservatives. So where do they show up? Why with the hapless Larry King on the rapidly deteriorating CNN.

McClellan obviously missed the news that the Tea Party is far more popular than Congress. He says they're "marginal" and have limited influence. If that's the case, why is everyone talking about them?

I have to laugh how Frum calls Larry King an important show. The dude is stuck in some 1992 time warp or something.

Enjoy your irrelevance, guys. You've earned it.

Barry O Does Irony

The Campaigner in Chief, it seems he never gets off the campaign trail, but why should he it seems to be the only thing he does well, in responding to some questions posed to him for an interview for NBC's "Today" show, gave an answer that is just dripping with irony. Irony that is lost on him, and every other liberal who are all graduates of the Circular Argument School of Rationalization.

In order to make the point I sort of rearranged the paragraphs from the AP story to make the point a little more obvious.

In an interview broadcast Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show, Obama said he feels "there's still going to be a group at their core that question my legitimacy." But he said he didn't want to paint Tea Party activists "in broad brushes" and he hopes to win over members who have "mainstream, legitimate concerns."

President Barack Obama says he believes the Tea Party is built around a "core group" of people who question whether he is a U.S. citizen and believe he is a socialist.

But beyond that, Obama tells NBC he recognizes the movement involves "folks who have legitimate concerns" about the national debt and whether the government is taking on too many difficult issues simultaneously.

Yup, don't want to paint with those broad brushes like all of those failed sycophantic news organizations that continue to fall on their swords, and their bank accounts, in their blind obedience to "The One".

How does this square with his fluffy talk about toning down the rhetoric? He is still running from the former governor of Alaska. She must haunt his every sleeping moment. I wonder how many times he wakes up in cold sweat screaming her name in the middle of the night?

The Tea Party has certainly made great strides, going from a "few" discontented radicals to now occupying the majority of attention from this administration. They fear the Tea Party folks more then they do Islamic terrorists with nukes.

BTW the picture was for the benefit of the lamestream media who continue to push the racist nature of tea partiers. It was just a random picture I found. Gee you would think organizations with dozens of fact checkers might be able to do it too. Might I suggest they quit using Google for a search engine and switch to Ask.

MSM Finally Acknowledges Existence of the Tea Parties

Over the last year, Americans who sided with their local Tea Party and staged protests railing against the encroachment of big government, and rallied in the streets of our nation's capital by the hundreds of thousands, were largely ignored by the media. Who can forget the adversarial role cable news channels took, like the confrontational CNN reporter at one rally or the mainstreaming of sexually explicit term by the crew over at MSNBC?

Well now the Tea Party is getting some attention, but there seems to be one common theme in the reporting. See if you can see a pattern.

CNN: Fractures Emerge as Tea Party Convenes

ABC: Whose Tea Party Is It? Nashville Convention Stirs Debate

Much has been made lately about a group of Tea Partiers holding a convention in Nashville that comes with, for many of those who support the effort, a steep price tag. My reaction has always been, so what? If you want to pay the money to attend more power to you. I have yet to figure out why this is such a big deal. It would seem the narrative being pushed in the media is that because this movement is supposed to be all about the common man everything they do must come with a Wal-Mart style price tag.

So while the Democrats are holding fundraisers in Hawaii, and their defeated candidates can go to Washington, DC to accept donations from big unions and others are holding campaign fundraisers at posh resorts and venues, the press thinks it is despicable for the Tea Party folks to holding a event that are charging for.

I think maybe it has more to do with Sarah Palin being the keynote speaker and the fear she embodies in the liberals and they are afraid of what might happen if the movement, which is really a bunch of local organizations, should get organized under one banner.

For the record, I don't think the Tea Party should be a national organization. It works best when it remains focused on the local level and holds local politicians accountable more then when they take on trying to present a solid, one size fits all, type personality.

No, trying to reign in the Tea Partiers is like herding a bunch of cats. It is an endeavor best not entered into.

The good news is that an organization that couldn't get an honorable mention on the nightly newscast last year is now having their every move scrutinized. Like they say in Hollywood, there is no such thing as bad publicity.

Tea Party Folks Are Getting Organized

One of the writers over at Andrew Breitbart's Big Government, Warner Todd Hutson, has a post up regarding the Tea Party and their future. In it points to the assumption that they need a leader, whether figuratively or in reality, that can bring all the various groups together under one banner.

I don't subscribe to that theory, since folks who are ardent Tea Party members know that while there are national issues that they all need to be in at least 85% agreement, the purpose of the tea party folks is to bring pressure to bear on their local politicians. For that reason that nationwide leader is not a necessity.

His bigger point though is that by having a national leader they can direct resources to those races in areas that may be hard fought in an attempt to influence them.

This also doesn't sit well with many tea party folks for the simple reason that if they wish to support a candidate outside of their area they will do so voluntarily and on their own. Much of what is causing so much anger at the RNC is the fact that they decide who is worthy of supporting and who isn't, while all the time preaching the message of keeping your eye on the big picture.

Well, as most athletic coaches will tell you, you concentrate on the small things and the big things will take care of themselves.

This post is not meant to be a rebuttal to that post, but rather to act as a response.



It appears the Tea Party Supporters are planning a get together, one which will have several prominent conservative voices in attendance. Now whether they will achieve the goal of selecting nominal national head or chair person is not known, but it does show that they are trying to get more organized on a national level.

10,000 Turn Out At Tea Party Rally in Houston

How much longer can the large media outlets ignore the Tea Partiers? They seem to be on the receiving end of all kinds of invectives and salacious sexual references from those paid to read the news off of teleprompters but when they continue to turn out crowds like this for a rally somebody is going to have to start paying serious attention.



Both major political parties ignore them at their own risk. These Tea Party folks are the reason the Independent box is being checked on more and more polls and surveys. While it is true they have a conservative point of view what they are doing is shaping the political landscape on the local level. Yes, Nancy, this is what long term grassroots activism looks like, unlike the liberal and progressive brand which is short term, and while more outrageous and able to get an inordinate share of attention, fails to have any sort of long term effect.

There was no big event happening in Houston to spur this sort of turnout. No big election pending. This was just a gathering of people who are sick and tired of what they see as an encroaching intrusion into their lives from the nanny state federal government. These people are not drawing any political allegiances, just ask the Republicans in New York.

“We vote primarily Republican, but they don't seem to be that much different anymore than Democrats,” said Everett Cochran of Montgomery, who attended the rally with his wife, Donna. “Nobody in the party apparently is listening to what the moderates to conservatives are saying — all they're listening to is the moderates to the liberals.”

The thrust of this gathering was indeed the pending healthcare takeover being planned by our federal government, and while the Republicans may indeed be handcuffed in anything they can do legislatively to stop it, they still are not lending their voices strongly enough in opposition to it. While the Republicans are trying their damnedest to piggy back on the Tea Party movement they have been called out by the tea partiers a few times, and most organizers will not allow them to take over their events and indeed go right down the middle of the road and bar all politicians from having a central position at these events.

People like this, who will turn out on a Monday to decry the overreaching power of the federal government, can very well be counted on to turn out for elections.

How To Spot a Racist at a Tea Party

Here is an amusing video from Kevin Jackson from The Black Sphere designed to help you spot the racist at a Tea Party demonstration.



"Jimmy's a good dog, but sometimes he craps a little too close to the porch."

Tea Parties Are Not Going Away

A lot of folks have been inquiring as to what was next for the Tea Party rallies and it seems they are working on some long term projects in addition to having some more nationwide protests on the 4th of July weekend.

Coming in August is the Tea Party Express. They are planning for a big rally in Washington DC on Sep 12.

The Tea Parties are not going away, no matter how much the folks at MSNBC and CNN want to wish them away and to ridicule them with their little snarky innuendos.

Barry O and his talking donkey's ass Robert Gibbs can pretend to ignore them, but it won't make them go away.

DHS secretary Janet Nincompoop can put them on all the watch lists she wants but they will not be silent.

I look forward to the further actions from average Americans all across the country who are fed up with the unresponsive politicians and the Pravda like actions of our news media.

Another Black Eye For CNN

This incident occurred back in December of 2008, but is just now coming to light. The incident involves a CNN Rent-A-Cop and a member of a Christian group who were outside the CNN headquarters in Atlanta doing a little preaching and handing out pamphlets.

Dick Christensen has filed a civil lawsuit against the guard, CNN, and Turner Broadcasting. Christensen said he believes the sidewalk is public property. If it is, Christensen said Turner Security shouldn't have slammed him to the ground and detained him for holding a religious banner there.

His video camera caught the incident on tape.

During the recent Tea Party here in Atlanta we had a group of people, about 50 to 60, who went to the CNN headquarters here with their signs and a couple of bullhorns to make CNN aware of the rally going on down the street. The group then walked the couple of blocks away to join the rally itself. CNN never showed up. I know, I was there. Of course Fox News was there. PJTV was there. Our local stations were there, along with a couple of radio stations. One of the stations was even a rock station, and the DJ's were solidly behind the protest. I wish the folks who had done this had videotaped it or at least had pictures of it.

CNN is breeding a public relations nightmare here locally and I have no doubt that come July 4th, the next scheduled Tea Party, they will be hearing from the folks again. CNN can bully the people, they can attempt to ignore the people, but they can't silence the people.

In the meantime, enjoy this video of the Regular Guys from Rock 100.5 awarding the prize for the best body at the Tea Party.



UPDATE: Speaking of the Regular Guys, I just found out that one of them is flirting with the idea of running for the US Senate to challenge Johnny Isakson of Georgia.