Palin at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville.

This weekend was the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, TN.

The purpose of my blog is to encourage individuals to be informed and to be active and to take a stand for what they believe.

But there is that underlying assumption that your information will be also correct, and your action will be preceded by thought.

This is the light in which I look at the Tea Party “movement”.  And after shining light on it, I am left with one phrase to describe it….Hmmmmm.

So I will simply list things I am observing about the Tea Party movement that seriously calls into question its true purpose or the validity of its argument.

1) There are those in the party that feel “Taxed Enough Already.” Seems legitimate.  But then in the same party are people that seem angry simply because Obama is alive.  Seems that Obama can’t even tie his shoe patriotically enough.  Might need to check that attitude.

2) To go with point #1 – for those that are taxed enough already, it seems interesting and ironic that you could find the $500+ to put up for a conference in which the organizers were “for profit” focused, but you are so over being overtaxed and having your hard earned money flushed down the drain….hmmmm…

3) Newscasters interview movement leaders and they say they don’t like Democrats.  Then they say they don’t like Republicans.  But instead of forming your own party you simply want to fund “conservative southern candidates?” Won’t they still be a part of a party and the political machine you supposedly loathe?

4) Going with point #3, what plans do you have to accomplish what you want?  I can shout out that I want a house all day.  But that doesn’t mean I am going to get it, unless I plan for it.  Can you identify some programs that constitute wasteful government spending? Work for change instead of shouting and flailing your arms for 5 minutes of TV air time?

5) Is it cool in the streets to be hypocritical?  We see one side of the Tea party movement bash Obama for being all rhetoric and being more of the same.  But then you have Palin and other speakers that weekend acting like its a sad version of  “Showtime at the Apollo”.   Did you spend $500 for a bad comedy show?  Or to invest in something you believe is real change?

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6) To go with point #5 – why would you even go rabid animal style for a candidate that reads notes off of their hand during a speech? How is

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that better than a teleprompter, Sarah “Say It Ain’t So Joe” Palin?  Where they do that at?

7) To go with 5 and 6: If Palin is an ideal candidate to represent your movement…then ummmm…I cannot take you seriously.  She couldn’t compete 1 full term as governor.  She was the shining example of what not to do in interviews, speeches, and debates (i.e., be unprepared and uninformed).  I mean if you just want a figure who ONLY points out what they perceive as problems, then go right ahead.  Chant Run, Sarah Run. All day.

8 ) You had 300,000+ plus people marching, protesting, etc. before the “convention”.  You had 600 willing to pay money to “unite” in Nashville.  Potential disconnect you should be concerned about as a movement?

I am alll for fighting for what you believe in and being vocal.  But if you are shouting 800 messages at once, none of them are getting heard.  At this rate, the most this movement may accomplish is a paragraph in the new edition of school textbooks and some great soundbites to compete for best viral videos of 2010.

Because substance, and a driving issue is not there.

Partly because they are hyperbolizing an issue that began with their own “conservative” counterparts who were in power in the last decade.

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