‘Tea Party Leader’: The GOP Never Calls Me Back
Dale Robertson is in the Washington Times again, described as a “leading figure” in the tea party movement: ‘Tea party’ activists feel slighted by GOP.
Leading figures in the burgeoning “tea party” movement complain they are being ignored by the Republican National Committee, despite having already shown their clout in taking down moderate Republicans in a New York special House race and the Florida Republican Party hierarchy.
“I have called into the RNC many times, and they still haven’t called me back,” said Dale Robertson, head of TeaParty.org, which he claims has upwards of 7 million members. “I’ve called them, lots of times. I called them this morning. I called them yesterday. It’s like they ignore you as they try to figure out a strategy on how to defeat you.”
Here’s Robertson at the February 27, 2009 Houston Tea Party. Now why in the world would the GOP fail to return his calls? It’s a real head-scratcher.
The last time I posted a link to a Washington Times article about Robertson, I got several insult-laced emails outraged that I described him as a “tea party leader,” saying that he had nothing to do with the Houston tea party groups, and demanding that I post a correction. And now here he is again in the far right Washington Times, touted as one of the main leaders of the teabaggers, and boasting that his group has 7 million members.
Don’t bother emailing again, folks; if you can’t control your own message, to the point where the Washington Times is promoting this idiot as your leader, I’m not going to accept any of the blame for it.
This kind of thing is why the tea party “movement” is such a bad joke.
Frank says: