I’ve been forecasting this meltdown since last April. From Alan Colmes’s Liberaland, we learn that tea party panjandrum Erick Erickson will not attend the astroturfers convention in Nashville because it “smells scammy:”
I am afraid Sarah Palin is going to harm herself unintentionally over this tea party convention in Nashville.
Full disclosure: I have asked several of the tea party organizations that, early on, I was supportive of to stop using my name and RedState’s logo. I think the tea party movement has largely descended into ego and quest for purpose for individuals at the expense of what the tea party movement started out to be.
That’s not to say it is in every case. I have much good to say about groups like Tea Party Patriots, but I think this national tea party convention smells scammy.
Let me be blunt: charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel and lodging to go to a “National Tea Party Convention” run by a for profit group no one has ever heard of sounds as credible as an email from Nigeria promising me a million bucks if I fork over my bank account number.
To me, the most hilarious and telling aspect of teabagging is the self-deception necessary to believe nonsense — for example, that Sarah Palin isn’t a paranoid ignoramus bent on soaking up speaking fees. Erickson doesn’t seem to notice that his party (and it is, once again, his Republican party) has long since become a for-profit scheme.
I think the tea party movement has largely descended into ego and quest for purpose for individuals at the expense of what the tea party movement started out to be.
The “movement” was never what he wanted to imagine. Teabaggery is just the latest iteration of the same right-wing get-rich-quick scam, and that’s all it ever was.
