Sanford, Perry plan virtual “Tea Party 2.0″
posted at 6:49 pm on May 12, 2009 by Allahpundit
Eh. Sounds cool in theory, or at least it would have if they had pulled in grassroots people to speak too and spent more time promoting it. As it is, this smells like a joint campaign event to remind the base who the real fiscal cons are ahead of a likely Sanford presidential run and Perry’s re-election bid against Kay Bailey Hutchison. Slapping the Republican brand on “tea party” won’t please partiers who want the events to remain bipartisan either, but I suppose that rubicon was crossed when Fox News went whole hog to promote the protests.
Hoping to recapture the grassroots energy of last month’s “tea parties,” Republican Govs. Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Rick Perry of Texas will host a tele-town hall Thursday that’s being dubbed “Tea Party 2.0.”
The Republican Governors Association said it is expecting 30,000 people to participate in the town hall, which will take place roughly one month after the much-publicized anti-tax tea party rallies held in hundreds of locations across the country on April 15, the tax filing deadline.
Sanford and Perry will each speak for several minutes before opening up the town hall to up to an hour-long question and answer session…
The RGA, Ayers said, is hoping to use the town hall as a springboard for organizing support and fundraising for key gubernatorial races this year in Virginia and New Jersey.
I might watch just for the entertainment value of seeing them field questions about secession and the inevitable ranting from Paulnuts about the Federal Reserve, but I’m guessing the informational value of this will be relatively low. What do you think, photo op or something more? To the extent that it puts grassroots conservatives in mind for better organizing, it’s all to the good.
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Oh Boy, Garofalo won’t like this one bit!!Tee Hee.
canopfor on May 12, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Virtual Tea Party?
God no.
Please.
Tell me this is a cruel joke.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Just too much corniness for me.
A virtual tea party?
This is like Billy Idol starting that “cyber-punk” genre to me.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 6:54 PM
First step in squashing the Tea Party movement by the Oligarchy.
Just like both parties worked in tandem to get rid of Perot and the Reform party, neither party wants their lock on Washington power to be threatened.
MSM will ever after this call the Tea Party movement a Republican movement… instead of a the Fiscal Con reality that it is…
Sad…
Romeo13 on May 12, 2009 at 6:54 PM
After being called a ‘teabagger’ I’m inclined to let these guys have the “Tea Party” moniker. We’ll think up a new one.
Dee2008 on May 12, 2009 at 6:55 PM
So. They’ll do it anyways. As long as the message is clear, it’ll work.
SouthernGent on May 12, 2009 at 6:55 PM
A Vitual Tea Party?
Beam me up snotty.
upinak on May 12, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Why can’t they just…just…talk have a Town Hall meeting?
I mean, is that weird?
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Beams can’t reach Alaska yet :D
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 6:58 PM
OT this is something Allah has to post in headlines.
Cheerio’s now concidered a drug?
wow, who ever thought of that one must have been on drugs.
upinak on May 12, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Its a good idea in theory, but it needs a different name. It should incorporate the townhall aspect — not protests by fed-up Americans.
amerpundit on May 12, 2009 at 6:58 PM
To my toddler they are.
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Do we have to wear the stupid 3-D glasses?
Will Sanford & Perry be dressed up as Tron?
portlandon on May 12, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Dawg, nothing like ruining a perfectly good post with that he/she again.
jbh45 on May 12, 2009 at 7:00 PM
best way to potty train little boy… cheerios in the toilet. And tell them to sink the ship!
upinak on May 12, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Do you have the little “O” that holds cherrios that you can take in the car with you?
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 7:02 PM
I don’t have anything against Perry or Sanford specifically, but color me skeptical. When Republican politicians start playing real hardball with Washington then I might pay attention to what they’re doing. Until then, they need to get out of the people’s way. The country is headed down the drain. We can’t wait for timid politicians to do the right thing.
flyfisher on May 12, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Huck will laugh.
Firebird on May 12, 2009 at 7:04 PM
No. I’m a zip lock gal. Probably why the car is a wreck, though.
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:04 PM
true! hahaha
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:05 PM
best way to potty train little boy…cheerios in the toilet.
And tell them to sink the ship!
upinak on May 12,2009 at 7:01PM.
upinak: Now thats funny,haha:)
Hey,me thinks,that might be the making’s of future
bomber pilots!:)
canopfor on May 12, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Now, I’m pissed.
The Tea Party Movement has nothing. NOTHING! To do with either of these dreadful political parties. Damnit, this is bullsh*t.
Rick Perry? Back off, you lifelong career politician. don’t sully our movement with your presence. No politicians are invited.
Grr-effin-rowl.
Key West Reader on May 12, 2009 at 7:06 PM
They see the wave cresting, and want to ride it in to victory.
I think it’s gonna look forced and make them look foolish, though.
cs89 on May 12, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Do you see what HotAir has become, Allah?
Too many open registrations leads to trolls and morons. Did you mean to drive away the thoughtful folks?
ExTex on May 12, 2009 at 7:07 PM
There has got to be some little device out there that can hold the Cheerio’s, have a little opening, and the kid can just pour ‘em into his or her mouth.
Or maybe that’s a choking hazard. Well, at least I know CPR and BLS.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 7:07 PM
elitist!
upinak on May 12, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Trollz in general, or on this thread
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 7:08 PM
I just finished American Lion.
AllahP, Im reasonable certain Andy Jackson would have had Sanford and Perry lined up and shot.
strangelet on May 12, 2009 at 7:09 PM
They do have them prepackaged in the baby food section but they hike the price for only mediocre convenience.
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Both, we are the morons AND trolls.
call a spade a spade.. and move on. Besides.. someone who calls themselves an EXTEX is usually someone who doesn’t like anywhere they live.
upinak on May 12, 2009 at 7:09 PM
These guys totally miss the point. Any lazy ass whiner can “participate” in a “virtual” tea party. The power of the tea parties were that folks took the effort to gather in large groups. It was the first protest I had ever attended and I look forward to the next REAL tea party. I’ll skip this virtual nonsense.
Sugar Land on May 12, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Our best effect came from people with signs walking the street corner. The honks and thumbs up were everywhere.
tarpon on May 12, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Repubs, who let us down for years are hijacking the grassroots movement of the Tea Parties… if I was a conspiracy theorist, I’d be inclined to think that this is to shut down the Tea Parties and show the public that it’s two parties or nothing. If you don’t like the “moderate Republicans” then tough. Good thing I’m not a conspiracy theorist…
Tuari on May 12, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Who?
So, yeah, sometimes we talk Cheerios. And? :o)
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:10 PM
The thing is that Tea Party people might be angry with both parties, but their anger is mostly directed at Obama and his ridiculously huge deficits.
I understand the desire for bi partisanship, but at the same time they complain about a lack of interest from politicians. Well, this is how it works when politicians get interested.
Terrye on May 12, 2009 at 7:11 PM
I believe if the American people really understood what was being done to us by Obama, the FED, and CONgress, hot lead would already be flying.
flyfisher on May 12, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Tuari:
So would you prefer that the Republicans ignored the Tea Party people and had nothing to do with them or their message?
Terrye on May 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM
I just finished American Lion.
strangelet on May 12,2009 at 7:09PM.
strangelet: And,how did it taste?
canopfor on May 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Not a chance. They will NOT ride any wave. Both major parties have refused to listen to We The People. That’s why we’re in the untenable position that we find ourselves now. NO POLITICIANS.
We The People are not stupid. Politicians of any stripe are EXCLUDED from this movement. If you dare to show up (which is why they’re doing this on TeeVee) they would be publically shamed, humiliated and forced to the back of the line to sweat with the hot dog vendors, which is where these a$$holes belong.
Key West Reader on May 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM
I hope he isn’t referring to us as trolls.
Mommypundit and upinak are very far from trolls, personality wise.
Biologically? I do not know.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Sanford and Perry ARE NOT Republicans – so it’s not slapping the “Republican” brand on anything.
Sanford and Perry ARE CONSERVATIVE FIGHTERS. They should be distinguished from the Republican Party – because “Republican Proper” means Mike Steele, Colin Powell, and apparently Arlen Specter.
Sanford and Perry belong to the DICK CHENEY FIGHTING ARMY OF CONSERVATIVE JEDIS.
The ones that will that will retake this country from fascism – even if they have to run on another ticket besides the GOP.
So this is TOTALLY appropriate.
HondaV65 on May 12, 2009 at 7:13 PM
strangelet:
I am reasonably certain you would have wanted Andrew Jackson tried for war crimes, you moron.
Terrye on May 12, 2009 at 7:13 PM
The people are thirsty for leadership.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 7:13 PM
You are right about that. What is discouraging is the copycatism. Just come out and declare yourself. Again and again, declare yourself and walk the walk. If you want to have a Town Hall meeting, have one. Call it what it is.
What I would have liked to see is elected officials coming in street clothes to these events…and just BEING citizens. Whether they got in the news or not. Just come.
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Smartypants.
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:14 PM
3’5 green and under a bridge. But if you wanna go fishing and hunting I am your troll.
upinak on May 12, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Governor Perry didn’t have any time to help a Texan being railroaded by the U.S. Government. This Texan hasn’t any time to help the Governor stay in Austin. Tea Party or not you can move on to Arizona, or Vermont, or Timbuckfrakkintoo. And take your hair with you.
Limerick on May 12, 2009 at 7:15 PM
So did my dad. He still resents Andrew Jackson.
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:15 PM
ha!
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Lin wanna hug?
upinak on May 12, 2009 at 7:16 PM
No
the_nile on May 12, 2009 at 7:17 PM
They are going to ruin it.
Firebird on May 12, 2009 at 7:18 PM
3′5 green and under a bridge. But if you wanna go fishing and hunting I am your troll.
upinak on May 12, 2009 at 7:14 PM
ha!
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:16 PM
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Insiders need not apply. We’ll choose our own reps, thank you.
PrincipledPilgrim on May 12, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Yeah. It was so good, too…
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:20 PM
The secession question is easy – and you won’t get much entertainment from it.
The answer will be that we are all Americans and there shouldn’t be any secession unless the Constitution is violated irreparably.
It goes unsaid that we are approaching that point.
HondaV65 on May 12, 2009 at 7:21 PM
I’m a fairy.
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:21 PM
The Tea Party did the right a ton of good, thanks to all the people who didn’t have anything better to do than hold a sign saying that they didn’t want their grandchildren to pay taxes to Nazi Obama or something. Good stuff.
Greef on May 12, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Terrye on May 12, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Nah, strangelet would just wait till Jackson did something conservative then make a crack about his wife being still married to her first husband.
cs89 on May 12, 2009 at 7:22 PM
I like Mark Sanford.
Rick Perry is a joke, however.
therightwinger on May 12, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Fairy outfits are always my favorite at the college halloween parties :x
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Coffee-swilling dwarf here.
Mary in LA on May 12, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Hmmmm should I go there?
DUDE! Think more like “flames”!
/JK!!!
upinak on May 12, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Read the latest Market Ticker from Karl Denninger on how the government is literally robbing and you’ll realize just how serious matters have become. This cannot be allowed to continue. I don’t know what the answer is, but the government is completely out of control, and many Republican politicians are implicated. We can’t look at just party affiliation to differentiate the good guys from the bad guys.
For some real fun, follow the link to Karl’s Ticker Forum and read the comments from serious traders and market watchers who understand what’s really happening on Wall Street and in Washington. They are ready for WAR.
flyfisher on May 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM
> people who didn’t have anything better to do
Excuse me, bozo? My Tea Party sign said, “I took time off from work to do this. Yes, it’s that important.”
Mary in LA on May 12, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Mary they don’t think about that stuff now!
upinak on May 12, 2009 at 7:28 PM
I said that and then was like, “wait, Elves are better shots.” But, anyway…I’m tired.
Oh, College…will you ever put aside your childish ways?
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:28 PM
You’re absolutely right, Honda. I’ve had Republican clients here in Charleston,SC scream in my face,”Sanford isn’t a Republican…. he’s a goddamned Libertarian!” That says more about what SC Republicans think about our Governor than I could ever put into words. Sanford has been elected and re-elected here in spite of the SC Republican party.
Storybec on May 12, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Which would explain the deafening SILENCE on the Hill from many.
It’s all corrupt, isn’t it?
Perhaps these two are to be trusted…minus the cheese.
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:30 PM
What is this worry about questioning the Federal Reserve. The Keynesians must have put the fear of God in mainstream conservatives that civilization itself will end if we abolish the Fed.
In reality, the government will have less money to play with for wars and socialism without a printing press, purchasing power for ordinary Americans will be steady without the megainflation of the past 40 years, and no more huge boom/bust cycles due to the central banks meddling. Remind me what the downside is again?
The Dean on May 12, 2009 at 7:31 PM
But, this is a good thing, right?
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:31 PM
FIFY, as they say. :-)
Mary in LA on May 12, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Perry is the reason The NAFTA Superhighway is getting built down here are we supposed to just over look that HUGE difference with the Populist movement?
Who are the RINOS in the Republican Party…look at their voting record. I wouldn’t vote for Cornyn, Hutchinson or Perry…they carried George W Bush’s Amnesty agenda, check how most of them voted for the first TARP- for George W Bush. So now Perry wants to look like he is a man of the people?
Dr Evil on May 12, 2009 at 7:32 PM
I think that says more about the big government republicans that have taken over the party than it does about Sanford.
He’s a Republican, for sure..But a small government Republican…One might even call him a “true conservative”.
therightwinger on May 12, 2009 at 7:32 PM
^Oh that’s right, Allah is an atheist. So I have no explanation for that phenomenon then.
The Dean on May 12, 2009 at 7:32 PM
When I’m dead, I’ll rest.
Let’s put it that way.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Mary, whether LA stands for Los Angeles or Louisiana your state is a huge beneficiary of my federal tax money. Especially if it’s Louisiana, your state has had some of the worst-performing schools in the country for a long time, so this Bozo would like to make your education even better with my tax dollars. If that’s too much big government I really apologize and invite you to try to elect someone who will shrink the gov’t, it’s a free country.
Greef on May 12, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Thanks!
upinak on May 12, 2009 at 7:34 PM
I do like Sanford…but Perry I do not know, so, this is all news to me from NC.
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Oh…I loved it. Jackson was exactly the president the Union needed at the time.
Nope…..peeping into peoples bedrooms is a purely conservative thing and trying to legislate morality.
I think Rachel was very brave to live openly with Jackson. It was the only way she could get a divorce. Only men could file for and obtain divorces then.
strangelet on May 12, 2009 at 7:35 PM
funny things happen when you go to church, get married and have children…
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Upinak, this will make you laugh: When I first started reading your comments and you mentioned that you live in Alaska, I figured your username was an Inuit word, like “kayak” or “umiak”, and I was all set to ask you what an “upinak” was… then I realized it was “up in AK”. Of course, you could fake us all out and tell us it means “Shooter of Trolls” or something!
Mary in LA on May 12, 2009 at 7:37 PM
They are politicizing the tea party idea and capitalizing on it for their own gain. Seems to me that it diminishes the idea of the protests to begin with, it was not partisan, and it makes them no better than Obama selectively releasing stuff to make certain people look good/bad.
A BIG LOUD NO to these posers (as me kids would say) find an original name and concept. In other words, grow some balls and act like reall men with an original thought.
ORconservative on May 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM
I’m pretending that won’t happen, even though it will. Maybe minus the church part.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM
And I’m part cherokee.
:(
strangelet on May 12, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Thank you for figuring out something I have been unable to do for a long time.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 7:39 PM
My goodness…are you being…civil?
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Go to the church I suggested.
Mommypundit on May 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM
I’m actually enjoying strangelet tonight.
Do you know Chuck Norris is part Cherokee too?
I miss the old Walker Texas Ranger episodes with Spirit Eagle.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Greef, it stands for Los Angeles, and if we get any more liberal “help”, e.g. amnesty, this state is doomed. The middle class is slowly being squeezed out of the state. My contract is up in September, and where I wind up is anyone’s guess. Our public education system was #1 in the nation when I was a schoolchild; now I think we’re #49, ahead of only Mississippi, all while the NEA demands and gets more and more money. And don’t go blaming Proposition 13; blame the Serrano-Priest decision.
But don’t bother sending the Feds in to screw up this state — the California legislature and the mayors of the large cities are already screwing it up beyond any hope of redemption.
Mary in LA on May 12, 2009 at 7:42 PM
One day, maybe. I feel like I’d have to be mentally ready first, if that makes sense.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 7:42 PM
I think the Republicans need to keep their hands off the Tea Party movement. They’ve had their chance to prove themselves fiscal conservatives and they’ve failed. If they want my support they need to walk the walk.
Rip Ford on May 12, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Oh, and Greef, sorry I called you a bozo. I apologize.
Mary in LA on May 12, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Rip Ford on May 12, 2009 at 7:44 PM
I agree. I no longer refer to myself as a republican. I am a conservative. The ones that really pi$$ me off are the ones who want to “repackage” the conservative message. Conservatism (sp) isn’t something you “repackage” it is something you practice. No wonder they don’t get it!
milwife88 on May 12, 2009 at 7:57 PM
O/T, but where’s Loxodonta?
mimi1220 on May 12, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Limerick on May 12, 2009 at 7:15 PM
…….but your OK with Kay Bailey, who has been in bed with Berry for the last 100 days?
try again later on May 12, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Wow, there’s some very heartwarming rage on that discussion board. Thanks for posting the link, I’ve bookmarked it for future subversive reading.
califcon on May 12, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Good point.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 8:20 PM
The GOP governors don’t get it. They don’t own the Tea Parties and shouldn’t try to co-opt them. The Tea Parties are non-partisan and anti-incumbent.
Tell them to keep their hands off. Period.
obladioblada on May 12, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Let’s get back to basics here, consider this Quote from Alexander Tytler:
How do we stop this madness? The Statist’s need the taxPayers – the achiever’s and producers to sacrifice themselves for the “Good” of their Statist’s utopia.
If the taxPayers refuse to ‘Play along’ for even a short time period, the vote-buying revenue stream can be interrupted and we taxPayers can get their attention.
Both parties and the LSM can either ignore our protests or ‘Use’ them. There HAS to be something else that can be done.
I really don’t see any alternatives to stopping the course we’re on in the “Tytler Cycle”
Fake8 on May 12, 2009 at 8:28 PM
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