First I did not attend the convention, I wasn’t about to pony up $550.00 for a ticket, I can afford $550.00 but I need new tires for the truck and that will put a good size dent in the price of the tires, I wanted to go to the convention but I didn’t need to… and that is the fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals we buy what we NEED to buy and not what we WANT to buy unless we have some disposable cash. Just listen to a Obama speech and you’ll hear him endlessly babble about what he WANT’S this or that and he says the American people WANT this or that and never speaks about what we NEED. So while I wanted to go I didn’t need to go and watched it on C-SPAN and saved $550.00 plus travel, plus food, plus lodging, plus misc expenses.
Anyway,
I just watched the Tea Party Convention and overall it was pretty good and I didn’t see to many “nuts jobs” but as with anyplace on either side of the political aisle you’re going to get a few like it or not, so there while there was a few – luckily not to many. You had the random “where is the birth certificate” rant – but seriously that is a dead hourse and you are only undermining the groups credibility to continue on that theme. Some of the question and answers amongst the spokespeople were good and I saw a few folks worthy of keeping track of. Palin’s appearance was decent, not that bad and equally not that amazing either I’ve seen her make better speeches. Her ad lib’s Q&A was far better I think she does better unscripted, but the point remains that if you pony up $550 for a ticket I’d think you’d want a little more than a 45 minute speech with a 15 minute Q&A with no meet and greet, but I digress.
The general tenor from the loony left was to paint them as a bunch of loony hooded KKK members but really with MSNBC rating few heard what they had to say, especially Madcow and Olbermann. The main message was to get out there and get involved perhaps run for local, state or national offices and completely vet those you support which is something that we should be doing as habit but occasionally need to be reminded.
There was your criticism of the convention, I levied a few myself, but overall I didn’t pay a lot of attention to hype or criticism around the Tea Party Convention I heard so much of it I finally just tuned it out.
The point is many pundits and TV host included Fox have tried to make a big deal out of the convention, as it is a rise of a third party, which it is not. Even after many in the Tea Party movement have stated that a third party is not the end goal as it would split the conservative vote. Many have also made issue about the diversity of opinion within the Tea Party and the fact that many have different goals and ideas, but is that not the idea behind a big tent mantra? Really do you agree with everything ever friend you have believes? Do you agree with everything ever person within your house believes? Yet the talking heads seems to think this is a weakness and not a strength on one hand and on the other hand condemn the conservatives for a small tent – so which is it? Is the tent to big or is the tent to small, frankly I don’t that it something for the loony left or pundits to decide.
In the end aside from face to face networking I’m not sure what real benefit the conference achieved, hopefully something. However, in the future if they want better turn out and less criticism they need to bring the price down – after all excessive waste and spending is one of the corner stones of the Tea Party is it not?
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