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Palin and Bachmann Team Up
This headlining act is surely to get tongues wagging. The National Tea Party Convention announced that it has booked Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to speak at their February 2010 event in Nashville. This is probably enough to get Tea Partiers excited, but Bachmann isn't even the highlight of the show: Top billing will go to Sarah Palin, who will be the event’s keynote speaker. The convention is the first ever of its kind, and will be sponsored by Nashville-based Tea Party Nation. The conference will be a place for Tea Partiers to network and strategize for 2010.
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cbeenthere
Who is it again that the Tea Party Nation is fighting with?
nortonclybourn
They're fighting those whose values are reflective of so many of the Unamerican values out there of so many who aren't real Americans.
seemoreglass
So they are fighting undocumented americans? Hmmmmm, I was wondering what all their self-rightcious posturing was about.
cbeenthere
True, but they are also fighting with another tea party group, apparently there are factions all over the country.
Demsdisorder
seemoreglass what the hell is a undocumented american??? did they land here in some kinda space ship. Or is it a sex offender that didn't register at the local PD??
diamondgirl
We are more american than you I want everything handed to me Liberals are.
when-the-whip-comes-down
That's one hell of a brain fart Zirk!
Fordham03
What is Unamerican about the values of the president and those who voted for him? A policy of peace with other nations instead of "my way or the highway," saving us from a financial disaster created by George W. Bush, who looked the other way while business ran amuck, acknowledging and including all the gifted people in this country who do not happen to be white? Birthers and the religious right are racist plain and simple.
Bachman who sees anti-Americans under every bed, and Palin, who is delusional, thinking she can be president, are both sad and would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous. The campaign trail really whet Palin's appetite for fame; she wants more than her 15 minutes. Why not do the Playboy centerfold and be done with it? Get real. Being president of the United States requires intelligence and ability (and a person who reads). These two are on their way to being a comical vaudeville act. It's sad but since this is a free country, the show must go on..
diamondgirl
I don't know what happened to that statement, It was only half there when I went back to check it.
We are more American than you Liberals, who want everything handed to them
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n--Y--cvillekidmaspring
If you have to ask then they're fighting against you.
Demsdisorder
we are fighting against you Liberals.
SensiStar
They need to take a look in the mirror then. They voted for Bush.
They put us in this position. What the hell do they have to be mad at.
No wonder they are called the American Taliban. Do they want to see us destroyed.
Bush almost destroyed the country and there mad at us.
Why do they hate America.
Garrison
Who "entitled" YOU? Your little retarded appointee, Bush? America is a progressive nation which relies on new ideas to exists. If you aren't part of the solution.....
Your party took Merka back 100 years with your oil wars and depression.
The Pugs won't be happy until they get whupped in another civil war.
LostPatriot
There are Liberals, Conservatives, Middle of the road people and, believe it or not in addition, there are people who think. There are actually people in this and other countries that use their God given brains for something besides living in the predefined boxes of Liberal, Conservative, or Middle of the road. Unlike the "people who think in predefined boxes" these thinkers have contributed much to many cultures.
reasonable
Judging from some of the signs at the last rally, I think they are also fighting against Hitler. They might just be confused and have dementia, actually.
jaydeekay
Might?
diamondgirl
Those Hitler signs are distastful, but Obama is a Socialist and we dont agree with the direction he wants to take this country in.
reasonable
diamondgirl,
It is every American's right to disagree with the president, march in the streets, blog about their issues, and work for change. I applaud anyone who gets off the couch and works for something they believe in. But anyone who disagrees with you is not, by definition, a wack job nut bird commie. It is simply not true and you know it. I have taken a lot of shots at you diamondgirl, because I think you disagree with my fundamental right to disagree with you. I have never called you a fascist, I've never called you a nazi, I've never called you any prejorative of any sort regarding your political beliefs. Please explain why I am a wack job. And please don't make me regret having an actual conversation with you.
winston1
reasonable I believe thay don't want a repeat of a Hitler. Get the point someone who puts brownshirts oh, I mean czars in office. Someone who want's to take over 1/6 of our economy. Someone who is not transparent. Someone who;s hope and change means socialism. I think these people who are out there protesting have every right and reason to be there, they love Ameriica and they see that our country is on the decline and want to stop it. Maybe some day you will realize what thay are trying to do and might even appreciate it.
SensiStar
reasonable: Your asking for a reasonable conversation from someone who has no use for facts.
If you voted for Bush twice and McCain I believe you suffer form a mental illness called Republicanism.
These are the type of people who only let there fat gut speak for them because they are sitting on there brain.
In other words your trying to reason with a dining room table.
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n--Y--cvillekidMaliciousDisorder
The MSM highlighted the signs held by followers of that wacko lefty democratic Lyndon LaRouche.
jaydeekay
Fox is the mainstream media.
Unless you are using it as just a title and not a descriptor.
diamondgirl
reasonable, I do believe Obama is a Socialist, and I don't mind you disagreeing with me ever, I applaud that. As for calling you a fascist, or Nazi, I don't do that because I don't even know you to be able to come to that conclusion. As far as Obama is concerned everyone can see his behavior and we don't like what we see. I am sorry for calling you a whack job that was not appropriate, you are entitled to your opinion even though I don't agree with you. Happy Thanksgiving
I hope we can agree to disagree
gak001
Obama is about as much of a socialist as George Bush was a fascist - you guys don't know what socialism is.
reasonable
Diamondgirl,
Agreed.
Happy Thanksgiving
diamondgirl
gak I totally agree with you about Bush!
happy turkey day!
gsamuels
Sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship. Palin/Bachmann 2012!
pennsykid2000
They must poll really well in focus groups made up of paranoid morons.
ShutUpAndThink
God help us if they get on the same cycle!!!
LostPatriot
Palin/Bachmann? I was hoping for a Spears/Hilton run. They seem more intelligent.
maspring
Personally nothing would make me happier than a Tea Party.
All of the culture warriors can go there and scream their heads off at the Republicans and the Democrats.
The Republicans can go back to representing small central government and conservative public policy.
And the culture warriors will have their platform for complaining about the state of the nation 24 / 7.
matthewbenzor
The "EXORSIST TWINS" heads are going to be spinning around the convention .....! hahahahahahahahahahahaha and spitting green pea soup all over people............
when-the-whip-comes-down
Mental might makes right!
Demsdisorder
welcome back to TDB Sarah. and i do like your friend Michele Bachmann . you girls are a real inspiration.to real ameracans.
DanKenton
Real ameracans??? What the hell is an ameracan? Oh...you must mean American! By the way doofus, it's spelled with a capital A. I thought REAL Americans knew that?!?!? Oh, you must mean the "Sarah Palin" version of a "real" American which includes the following attributes:
1) Little or no education beyond middle school
2) Blue collar, time-clock punchers
3) Belief in a Middle-Eastern deity that somehow resembles Charles Manson
4) Physically repulsive and in poor health, i.e. diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.
5) Socially retarded
Does that sound about right Mr. REAL American?
nightdragon09
Take out #2, and you have the average Obama supporter.
Demsdisorder
nightdragon09 how true it is and add a #6 welfare moms
jaydeekay
Hey night... I wonder how he got elected if no blue collar workers voted for him?
jolebo
DanKenton: I am really opposed to the social and political views of both Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. However your sarcastic description of "Sarah Palin" version of a "real" American is the very reason that "Blue collar, time-clock punchers" are so turned against people like you.
You come off as elitist, and think you are better than those of us, that actually do work for a living.
You, think about that.
ShutUpAndThink
It's easy to come down on "Blue collar clock punchers" because they consistently vote against their interests. They'd rather vote in accordance with their views on abortion or gay marriage instead something that might actually affect them, like lower taxes for the middle class, or affordable health insurance, or unions (power against corporations i.e. Republicans that could give a shit about their well-being), or "social" programs that would benefit them if they ever fell on hard times, or, or, or.
It's time for people to start voting on principles that might actually improve their lives NOW, rather than voting for a dream that one day they'll ALL be rich and will finally be able to reap the rewards of republican policy.
jolebo
ShutUpAndThink: X2, well said.
diamondgirl
Dan you need to calm down, We are all Americans, I would hope we all love this Country, and so what if what you say are the Americans that relate to Palin have those things you listed? What if some dont agree with your list, you have no way to poll that to find out and what the truth is. Either way a lot of people like her now, who knows how long that will last, or if it will continue. Look at Obama, everyone looked as him with hope in their hearts, because of the mess Bush left us, but he is sinking like a stone right now, doing a lot of the same things Bush did, and people are not happy with him. So this is how the Country is reacting.
Happy Thanksgiving
ittybittykitty
Americans. Good grief, if you are an American, at least learn how to spell the word.
ShutUpAndThink
A "Real American" is a kid that refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance because he believes his country does NOT stand for liberty and justice for all!! That's Patriotism!!!
Willow207
The Dumb and Dumber Act!
Are they paying people to come watch?
sonofloud
Dumb and Dumber.....my thought exactly
joek201
Hey, I like tea, although I usually drink coffee, except for ice tea. I drink ice coffee too. Is there going to be a coffee party too. Or better yet, a microbrew party! Eh, there's the ticket. Is it still Octoberfest? I guess somewhere in the world it is, i.e., it's 12 o'clock somwhere. So break out the brewskis and let's get rip roaring drunk. Batten down the hatches, here come the right-wingers
Can't they all just dry up and blow away? Jesus.
jaydeekay
AGAIN... I say this is ALL scripted.
Only in the movies does this kind of stuff happen. Only in fiction do the stars align ALL the time and what you think should happen actually does happen.
I just want to know who's writing the script.
when-the-whip-comes-down
My theory is that these flamboyant slow motion train wrecks will produce such a spectacle that, out of the wreckage, a competent administrator will rise. As far as the script... look no farther than PNAC.... Bill Kristol.
jaydeekay
It's bigger than Kristol.
I'm sure we have no idea who the writer is... who ultimately pulls the strings at this carnival. And most likely will never know.
As for a "competent administrator"... I don't know if that's possible being that I have yet to see one... EVER.
diamondgirl
If anyone can unite Middle America its Sarah Palin and Bachmann. I bet this event will draw a huge crowd. The MSM wont even cover it.. But thats ok because Fox will..LOL
jarussell
I'm betting the crowd is 5-6 million (Fox News is already on it--I swear to you, I seen the crowds myself, it's true!) Real Americans with real values and real names, nothing foreign like Achnad or Hussein or Pedro or Hiroko. Only names like Tom, Dick, or Harry allowed. Don't none of you liberals, darkies or towelheads show up neither. diamondgirl is aworkin the door and she kin tell a real american when she sees one.
The MSM will NOT cover the event properly, so they're barred too, even though everyone there will complain because they aren't there.
southbymidwest
Yeah, if the MSM wants to be as proper as FoxNews, they can just put up their 2008 RNC Convention footage and claim it's this event, too!
diamondgirl
South- Fox did screw up two times with that crap, I would hope they learned their lesson. Dont worry, Stewart will be watching..LOL
ittybittykitty
it's (it is a contraction)
theschmooze
diamond: I believe you need to be tested.
LostPatriot
Diamondgirl why don't you like socialism? Obama can't take us towards "socialism" because this country has been socialist since 1789 a long time prior to him. Everything you see around you has come from "socialism" directly or indirectly. Highways, schools, hospitals, damns, railroads, fire departments, waste management, water systems, and much more too numerous to mention here. The down side was when the banksters laid claim to the socialist money in 1913 with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, giving private bankers control over our money. Now, as you've seen, between them and the insurance cartel we are having the blood sucked out of us. Of course it's difficult to discern where the banksters began and the insurance cartel ends. Banksters own much of the insurance industry.
diamondgirl
Lost, I dont want the Government in everthing, they are in enough already, you are right. Every time they hire more government workers, my taxes go up, every time they create more entitlement programs my taxes go up. We need to have the private sector do these things so we dont end up paying and the rest get it for free.
As for the government, more and more its become aparant that both sides are corrupt and that has to change. As for the bankers, this Administration an the last one has taken care of the bankers of the world and left the poor in the dirt with not jobs and on welfare and unemployment. How is that good for those people?
This Administration is protecting the Insurance industry,the lawyers,drug co,unions, how are they any better?
What do you suggest?
when-the-whip-comes-down
Zircon encrusted tweeter... I would suggest that you go back to Montana soon... and become a dental floss tycoon.
Winski
Astounding.... Bachmann and SP in Nashville at the same time and the same place, speaking to the same crowd of knuckle-draggers ..... I'll bet beck, hannratty, limberger, billo-the-clown, savage, et. all are spewing in their collective pants just thinking about this...
southbymidwest
I can appreciate that these guys are upset to not be in power anymore and that the next generation is taking over, but it really bothers me that they represent themselves with respect to a historical event that lacks the appropriate context. The original tea partiers were protesting taxation WITHOUT representation. These folks DO have representation, but unfortunately, since they are no longer in the majority their specific interests may not hold court. They are just as represented as anyone else. They're free to express their interests to their own representative and their representative will continue to serve what they expect to be the interest of the majority of their voting constituents. Could someone possibly explain that difference to them so they can pick a name that highlights their obvious ignorance less?
when-the-whip-comes-down
Get real...
When was the last time that our representatives actually wrote legislation that gave protection to their voting constituents without caving in to the industries that the legislation was intended to protect the public from?
when-the-whip-comes-down
Our representatives have no obligation to administer our interests other than favor our vote. Corporations are legally people and money is their voice... unfortunately money speaks louder than words... For example, whenever some government official is in the position to make a sweeping decision concerning public consumption (think Al Jazeera, supports the terrorists) it's always worth a little investigation to see what the politician is sensitive about. Here was a politician that was telling us that if we were to look outside our spoon fed mass media that we were running the risk of being a enemy combatant... Clearly a situation where democracy is not a word that comes to mind.
Sweden's democracy (think NOT republic) has no middle man that can be so willingly hijacked to the highest bidder. Even the budget is resolved through referendum. Make note of Sweden's military budget and diplomatic aggression.
ittybittykitty
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
diamondgrl
Finally, two of the four greatest minds in the country are together to TAKE BACK AMERICA. Let's get Beck and Limbaugh up there and we won't even NEED the White House anymore! All dutiful American patriots will just take their orders from this new, American Council!
jaydeekay
I think you are mistaken.
Don't you mean The Four Horsemen? The bringers of death... the apocalyptic foursome?
Because I know you are joking (or merely being foolish) to say these are four people with the greatest minds in the country. Two high school graduates, one who took five years for a degree in broadcasting, and Bachmann... an alumnus of a Charismatic Christian college (charismatic... ROFL!)
If those are the best minds... how are we all still alive?
But it is funny... those four represent American employment numbers, being that one of the four is unemployed (though that was self inflicted).
You betcha.
diamondgrl
This works better when you don't follow me around pointing out the satire to the legions of people dumb enough not to see it.
You'll notice Stephen Colbert doesn't have someone in a box in the bottom left corner of the screen waving their arms and yelling, "He's joking guys!" every time he says anything.
Not that I would ever compare myself to the great Colbert, but still bugger off! >.<
Demsdisorder
Jay,, didn't you get a job yet? i need someone to detail my cars are you up for it?
jaydeekay
You are so right, the real diamondgrl.
I will retreat to my corner to sulk.
Long live Colbert.
jaydeekay
Dems...
Why would I want to detail a '78 Pinto?
Demsdisorder
sorry Jay, as you would expect my cars and tuck aren't that fuel efficient
I ill pay you $150 each.
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n--Y--cvillekidDemsdisorder
Thanks oops... Truck
diamondgrl
I wish I was Ritarta. Her poetry skills are the stuff of legends.
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n--Y--cvillekidTalithaKoum
They are fabulous! Love them. Love them for living out their principles both in political life and their personal life.
Demsdisorder
Im feeling a little nauseous....
Southpaw
Showboat Palin giving up some of the spotlight to Bachmann? Can't see it happening.
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