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[Stosh]

This is an article from the October 15, 2010 issue of Rolling Stone.
It's taken three trips to Kentucky, but I'm finally getting my Tea Party epiphany exactly where you'd expect: at a Sarah Palin rally. The red-hot mama of American exceptionalism has flown in to speak at something called the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, a gospel-music hoedown in a giant convention center filled with thousands of elderly white Southerners. Palin — who earlier this morning held a closed-door fundraiser for Rand Paul, the Tea Party champion running for the U.S. Senate — is railing against a GOP establishment that has just seen Tea Partiers oust entrenched Republican hacks in Delaware and New York. The dingbat revolution, it seems, is nigh

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/210904

[Detroitej72]

quote: "a Sarah Palin rally. The red-hot mama of American exceptionalism"

Shouldn't that read: "the red hot mama of American anti-patriotism", since her and hubby Todd were part of an "Alaska independence movement" that wanted to succeed from the U.S.

Of coarse, this was before she became a celebrity who is famous for being famous, and not much more.[[much like Paris Hilton)

Now, she's all over the TV pimping herself, and her family out.

[DetroitPole]

"At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing. They know who they are, and they know who we are [["radical leftists" is the term they prefer), and they're coming for us on Election Day, no matter what we do — and, it would seem, no matter what their own leaders like Rand Paul do."

Add to the "who we are" - blacks, Jews, Hispanics, union members, gays, coast inhabitants, urbanites, the "academic elitists"...and you start to have a very small, but very noisy, Tea Party tent.

Sorry, the United States isn't just Kentucky. The vast majority of decent people would never get onboard this neo-Bush gravy train again. Sure the Democrats will take some losses in this election, understandably, but we're not going to have a Tea Party reaction.

...after all, demographically, WASPs as a whole [[again a very big tent that includes liberals and gays and Episcopalians and vegetarians and people who graduated from an accredited university and people who can spell 'morons') are no longer going to be the majority in a few years. Then we'll finally take over. Taxes and welfare for all. Hopefully when the Hispanics become the majority we can finally install the pope as the rightful King of America.

[maxx]

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