Tea Party Convention Organizers Send Angry Email

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US News • Sun Jan 31, 2010 at 1:14 pm PST • Views: 844

One of the problems with building a movement on a base of populist rage is that it tends to attract rage-a-holics who would rather die than compromise on anything at all, the kind of people who will just as easily turn their rage on each other when disagreements pop up.

Today the organizers of the National Tea Party Convention sent out an angry email demonstrating this principle, naming and attacking their critics and revealing some of the ugly infighting going on behind the scenes. Dave Weigel has the email: National Tea Party Convention Organizers Push Back.

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There's no question in my mind -- the beer, the ballons and the bunting all start with "B" for some cosmic reason. -- Words that star with B and remind him of the Republican party. The Real Frank Zappa Book. Page 238