The silver lining... Perhaps the national tea party will be a home for the socons and leave the Goldwater Republicans (read: adults) in charge of the GOP?

Hawky Mom!

I wonder if it will be streamed on the Web. Would be interesting to watch.

re: #2 Cato the Elder

Hawky Mom!

Sarah Palin at the home city of country music. Cato, have you got a any good jokes for that juxtaposition?

Well, if we turn Bachman sideways, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

re: #3 Bubblehead II

I wonder if it will be streamed on the Web. Would be interesting to watch.

Potential list of advertisers...

Natural Gas Counsel
Bob Jones University
The Discovery Institute
The Creation Museum
The Bible emporium
Billy Bobs Rib Joint

"A representative for Palin has confirmed the former Alaska governor’s speaking role at the gathering."

Think I'd get a reverse deposit.

Maybe they'd draw in more independents if there was a Palin vs Bachmann mud wrestling portion of the tea party event. At least they'd get the Pay Per View revenue...

I just can't wait for the photos of all those rednecks sipping from delicate porcelain cups with their pinkies stuck up in the air.

re: #4 Dark_Falcon

Sarah Palin at the home city of country music. Cato, have you got a any good jokes for that juxtaposition?

Something about Nashville freezing over? /

re: #5 EmmmieG

Well, if we turn Bachman sideways, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Ahaha nice one Emmmie although my boss wanted to know what was so funny...

re: #4 Dark_Falcon

Sarah Palin at the home city of country music. Cato, have you got a any good jokes for that juxtaposition?

Sure. She'll dedicate her cover of "Stand By Your Man" to John McCain.

re: #12 Cato the Elder

Sure. She'll dedicate her cover of "Stand By Your Man" to John McCain.

LOL! Thanks.

re: #6 DaddyG

The Creation Museum

Featuring Adam the 'porn' star.

Palin/Bachmann?, no they wouldn't, would they? no... I am just being parinoid...

re: #11 Locker

Ahaha nice one Emmmie although my boss wanted to know what was so funny...

I'm slow today. 'Splain it to me, please?

This is starting to sound more like The Tea Party than a "tea party".

re: #16 Cato the Elder

I'm slow today. 'Splain it to me, please?

I'm assuming it means you can see right through her ear to the other side... but maybe I'm slow too..

re: #18 Locker

I'm assuming it means you can see right through her ear to the other side... but maybe I'm slow too..

No, that was it. One ear to the other is a tunnel.

re: #14 Jeff In Ohio

Featuring Adam the 'porn' star.

I hear he's trying to turn over a new leaf. /

re: #20 DaddyG

I hear he's trying to turn over a new leaf. /

}}Snicker, that place is a hoot.

re: #6 DaddyG

Potential list of advertisers...

Natural Gas Counsel
Bob Jones University
The Discovery Institute
The Creation Museum
The Bible emporium
Billy Bobs Rib Joint

Philip Morris

re: #12 Cato the Elder

Sure. She'll dedicate her cover of "Stand By Your Man" to John McCain.

And when she's done with that, she'll rip into a duet with Glenn Beck: "Girl from the North Country".

Except the word "breast" will be bowdlerized as "chest". Wouldn't want to get the knuckle-draggers too excited...

Expect I'm not invited.

I'll get over it.

re: #6 DaddyG

Potential list of advertisers...

Natural Gas Counsel
Bob Jones University
The Discovery Institute
The Creation Museum
The Bible emporium
Billy Bobs Rib Joint

Pajamas Media

re: #24 SanFranciscoZionist

Expect I'm not invited.

I'll get over it.

I wonder how many Jews are attracted to the kind of company one finds at Tea Parties.

re: #21 Jeff In Ohio

}}Snicker, that place is a hoot.

I drove by it last week... We didn't go in. Most attempts by people to illustrate the scriptures fall a little short with me (although the Ten Commandments is still a cool flick).

We did however go to the Auburn Cord Dusenberg Museum. I have been hankering for an Art Deco 16 cylinder limo ever since.

re: #6 DaddyG

Add Sharpie to that.

Palin and Bachmann owe their chola eyebrows to Sharpie, and I think they use the same stencil. You know, girl stuff.

re: #3 Bubblehead II

I wonder if it will be streamed on the Web. Would be interesting to watch.

It'll have as much star power as that "2012" movie, and interesting to watch for more or less the same reasons.

The only difference I can see is that John Cusack sounds much more intelligent that Sarah Palin in public. This is, however, an extremely low bard to hurdle.

Reaction on entering the Tea Party Convention:

"My God! It's full of Wingnuts!"

/given the headline I had to say it.

re: #27 DaddyG

I drove by it last week... We didn't go in. Most attempts by people to illustrate the scriptures fall a little short with me (although the Ten Commandments is still a cool flick).

We did however go to the Auburn Cord Dusenberg Museum. I have been hankering for an Art Deco 16 cylinder limo ever since.

Oh man, it goes beyond illustrating scripture. They have man walking with dinosaurs, and other live action dioramas that show the consequences of the earth only being 6000 years old. And if you didn't get it, that Adam thing wasn't a joke. The first Adam they had was found to have been in some, um, compromising movies.

We had a gang of gawkers out there when it first opened. Good time!

I was just reading an article about Bachman's rise to power being pushed, and of course funded, by the Center for National Policy, a far right religious organization. It was, according to this story, started by Tim LaHaye, the author of the Left Behind books and John Birch Society member. Dobson is also one of their heavy hitters and did some work in Minnesota getting Bachman elected. Of course the article may be just junk, but it certainly seemed logical that a bunch of theocratic nuts got her elected, since she seems to be the most ignorant, unqualified person in congress, which given the competition is no mean feat.

Repent, for the Wingularity is nigh!

From the Balloon Juice Lexicon:

Wingularity, the- the point at which the insanity from the far right and those controlling the Republican Party [continues] to grow exponentially until it reaches an unsustainable weight and collapses upon itself. This is also known as the Purity Spiral, wherein the density of wingnut increases compared to mainstream conservatives to the point of pure wingnut. As the ratio rises, this creates a phenomenon wherein no logic or sanity can penetrate or escape. When rightwing argument has become completely inaccessible to the uninitiated, it has reached the Wingularity. Coined by commenters JM and Joe K.

re: #6 DaddyG

Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs Screechs

If Sarah Palin is giving the keynote ddress, will the media be allowed in the room? And how will the sound guys filter out the wind howling through Bachman's ears?

When Fox covers it, you can bet they'll show crowd shots from a Bruce Springsteen concert as reaction for ex-governor Palin.

re: #26 Cato the Elder

I wonder how many Jews are attracted to the kind of company one finds at Tea Parties.

I don't know. My aversion to this crowd certainly has cultural roots, as well as political roots, and regional roots, and lots of other kinds of roots, but there's all kind of Jews in the world.

Uh, I tried the link, and it didn't work. Could it have been changed or something?

re: #5 EmmmieG

Well, if we turn Bachman sideways, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

If you put Bachman and Palin together on the same stage light will bend around them.

re: #37 SanFranciscoZionist

I don't know. My aversion to this crowd certainly has cultural roots, as well as political roots, and regional roots, and lots of other kinds of roots, but there's all kind of Jews in the world.

True, but you'd think the xenophobia at these Tea Parties would keep them as (nominally) Christian as they are lily-white.

She'll probably quit when she discovers they don't have any money to pay her.

Think that's far out?

You should see my orbit!

re: #24 SanFranciscoZionist

Expect I'm not invited.

I'll get over it.

I believe Sarah said you'd be 'flocking to Israel' around that time...but don't feel too bad. Levi's not invited either.

You know, Sarah Palin is a huge disappointment. The bleeding heart liberal, that I am, used to be impressed by her charisma and confidence--it is such a shame that she is not using those attributes to legitimize herself as a female politician.

This has turned into a carnival freakshow of sorts. Reading some of the comments here spark thoughts of the advertising for the event "Come see the amazing Orbit Woman" , "Conspiracy beyond your wildest imagination", "Relive the horrors of history as told by Michelle Bachmann ." Charles and your sane readers, I give you guys a world of credit for breaking with the crazies! Thanks for the "Open Door"

Will this event be closed to the press?

I say we should have a pool: everybody sends $10 and a date - day and month - to Charles, predicting the the day they have to announce that Half-Term Governor Palin won't be attending their "Wingularity-looza" at all. Closest guess without going past it wins the money. (Multiple guessers of the same day split the pot; no extra credit for Meg Stapleton announcing Palin never knew anything about the event...)

Sorry, Charles, but there ain't no way this "moronic convergence" of 2010 can hold a candle to the moronic (Leftist) convergences of past years.

And here's the test (at least for myself):

I'm a Jew, and a supporter of Israel.

If I were to attend this "moronic convergence" with Palin and company, there is absolutely no way I could feel the palpable anti-Semitism, hatred and thick-headed righteous imbecility that one could have sensed in the Bush-era "moronic convergences" involving the Jew-hating, Islam-appeasing, America-hating Leftists.

I experienced a pro-Palestinian rally (the archetypal moronic convergence if there ever was one) close up, and believe me, those people are seriously scary. I'd take Palin and company any day.

Maybe I haven't paid as much attention to LGF since you started concentrating on the Right (if so my apologies). But, sorry, you haven't in my opinion made the case that the Right is as evil as the Left and its allies. I know you are trying to cure the Republicans of their perceived ills and weaknesses, but I really wonder sometimes if you are hitting the wrong side, and hitting it a little too often and hard.

crown, you have a valid point that there are many on the left that are incredibly misinformed, but how many of these radicals have risen to the influential status of bachmann or palin? where are the leftist demagogues in congress? that there are extremists on both ends of the spectrum is a given, as will always be. when they rise to power the way they have on the right recently, you have a real danger imho.

Hm...I live about 600 miles from Nashville. Anyone know what the fallout radius is from an explosion of stupid?

Crown, as a liberal who has desperately missed "sane opponents" . However, what has ailed some on the left and right for years is this "talking point" elitism. I see you touch on the key words here "America-hating Leftists" , "Islam-appeasing", etc. I find it amusing that what many on the right have done over the years is turn it into "Luntz talk". The left is guilty as well, but I have yet to see key words highlighted in tv segments.

Being pro-peace agreement between Israel and Palestine does note make me "anti-American". You state you would take an event with Palin and Bachmann anyday, well don't get swallowed by the talking point machine, racism, death threat nonsense that entails.

Maybe they're trying to set a Guinness World Record for Biggest Amount Of Crazy In One Place.

*spew*

So we just sit here with our pud in our hand typing back and forth on blogs?
That'll sure change the country's current direction

re: #54 The Termlimator

So we just sit here with our pud in our hand...

Speak for yourself.

re: #48 crown_of_feathers

Maybe I haven't paid as much attention to LGF since you started concentrating on the Right (if so my apologies). But, sorry, you haven't in my opinion made the case that the Right is as evil as the Left and its allies. I know you are trying to cure the Republicans of their perceived ills and weaknesses, but I really wonder sometimes if you are hitting the wrong side, and hitting it a little too often and hard.

I think the search for equivalence has deliberately been avoided. One "side" is criticized as needed, without seeking to "balance things" by then going after the "other side". The left got hit more often in the past, the right gets it more now. There has also been discussion of the limitations of the terms "left" and "right". And, I don't want to speak for Charles, but I have seen him mention that he's given up on the Republican Party.

re: #54 The Termlimator

So we just sit here with our pud in our hand typing back and forth on blogs?

In my case, I have to use both hands to get my pud type back and forth on blogs properly.

Still, it's a much more positive, productive endeavor than anything these Bircher driven tea parties hope to accomplish.

As a business owner I can say this is the first time that I have been afraid of what the gubment has in store for us if we do not stand up to them.
So we hoard all the money we can and ride it out?

re: #57 Slumbering Behemoth

lol

re: #58 The Termlimator

As a business owner I can say this is the first time that I have been afraid of what the gubment has in store for us if we do not stand up to them.

First time? You mean that you didn't buy into all the conspiracy mongering that went on during the Clinton admin.?

Not with the Repub. congress

re: #58 The Termlimator

As a business owner I can say this is the first time that I have been afraid of what the gubment has in store for us if we do not stand up to them.
So we hoard all the money we can and ride it out?

What exactly do you think the gubment has in store for you? And what is your source of this information?

Taxes man, taxes.

re: #50 abbyadams

Hm...I live about 600 miles from Nashville. Anyone know what the fallout radius is from an explosion of stupid?

Hell, I live in Nashville...and I would love nothing more than to tell the Tea Partiers to stay the f**k out of my town.

From the article:

Phillips [a spokesperson for Tea Party Nation] says the conference will feature workshops, seminars, information centers, and organizational tools for leaders to take back to their respective local tea party organizations. He adds that the Republican Party is not coordinating or organizing with Tea Party Nation in any way.

Just hope the national GOP steers clear of any official endorsement or backing of this - with Michele Bachmann around, this promises to be exceptionally insane. There are great grounds for condemning this thing before it even happens, but I'll consider silence about it prudent, given that it might stay at the fringes and not go anywhere else.

Taxes? Youre: #63 The Termlimator

Taxes? NOW you're worried about taxes? How convenient. Did you realize that when the government runs a deficit, like it did with the last Republican Congress and President, that there is no such thing as a tax cut? Just because the IRS didn't collect enough taxes the last eight years doesn't mean you don't owe them. That money was spent, as sure as the hundreds of billions being spent now. Medicare part D, the money not collected because of the Bush tax cuts now has to collected by their successors. Were you one of the "deficits don't matter" crowd? I got news for you. I'm a business owner too and it would have been a lot easier to have paid the taxes seven years ago then it will be to pay those taxes (that we didn't collect then) now. Because now we still have to pay for our government, we have to pay for the government of the past AND we have to pay interest. Also, as a business owner, I am fully aware of the roots of my liablities. When we threw away the surplus to give tax breaks which did little for the economy, we most profoundly saddled ourselves and our descendents with the burden of paying for our recklessness. Spare me your disingenuous indignation about your sudden tax burden. I find deficit spending to be most profoundly irresponsible and your refusal to accept the responsibility we all share is contemptible. We spent our kids' future. Somebody is going to have to pay off the debts we ran up, and that somebody had better be us.

I might have to go to this, take photos, and report back.