“Opponents of this message, they’re seeking to marginalize this movement. They want to paint us as ideologically extreme and the counterpoint to liberal intolerance and outrageous conspiracy theorists aimed at our own government and unethical shameless tactics like considering a candidate’s children fair game. But unlike the elitists who denounce this movement — they just don’t want to hear the message — I’ve traveled across this great country and I’ve talked to the patriotic men and women who make up the Tea Party movement. And they are good and kind and selfless and they are deeply concerned about our country. And today I ask only this: Let’s make this movement a tribute to their good example…”
– from Sarah Palin‘s Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention
…and Alice just left the fucking table.
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Well… if Sarah Palin says so…
Am I the only one who can’t make much sense out of her rantings and ravings?
According to Sarah Palin, “Opponents of this message, they’re seeking to marginalize this movement.” But, despite all the attention (publicity!) from Fox News and other faux-news broadcasters, with only 600 teabaggers in attendance at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention, they seem to have already be thoroughly marginalized.
(Roswell, New Mexico’s UFO Festival attracts 35,000 and that’s without Fox News)
They made a lot of Scott Brown’s election as legitimizing the Tea Party, but there were other factors that got him there: Massachusetts has never had a female Senator, and Brown was the square, JC Penny catalog model in a pickup that older white voters could gravitate to. He’s Mitt Romney redux, and perception and image played a big part. He’s the type of traditional-looking politician who’s really the alternate universe white president some sectors of the population feel is the only real candidate who can govern. He didn’t appear on the scene by chance.