National Tea Party Convention Canceled Due to Low Ticket Sales

[werepossum]

I posted this at another forum that has a lot of Tea Partiers and they're thrilled about this falling flat. I was a bit surprised.

I'm not. These people are as pissed at the Pubbies as at the Dems. This is like holding an anarchists' convention.

 

[Hacp]

Isn't tea party nation one of the scam tea party formations? Anyhow, most tea party members are regular people who can't afford 400 dollars. Just like they can't afford to blow 3 million on a wedding for their daughter.

 

[drebo]

My ideal would be the Republican Party becoming more conservative and a true third party emerging that would combine fiscal ultra-conservatism (i.e. devolving power to the states, slowing spending growth, eliminating or authorizing via Amendments parts of the Federal Government that are now extra-Constitutional by strict reading) with a strong conservation ethic and a strong classically liberal commitment to personal freedom.

So, basically, you like libertarians who lean toward Constitutional Party (without the whole "Jesus is the ruler of the Universe" bit).

Thems the people we need to fix our country, imo.

 

[ericlp]

Maybe they will have a free tea bagg'en event. Seems that wouldn't cost too much money. I'm sure Palin would probably do it for free!

 

[her209]

Isn't tea party nation one of the scam tea party formations? Anyhow, most tea party members are regular people who can't afford 400 dollars.

I thought the claim was that Tea Partiers were more well off and better educated...

Just like they can't afford to blow 3 million on a wedding for their daughter.

Bill Clinton can afford it.

 

[IronWing]

I agree with the guy who said it was opportunistic. The TEA Parties were supposed to be local gatherings of small groups of people who were fed up with the BS tax rates/policies/whatevers our completely out of touch "leaders" decided. It's not supposed to be a political party, it's not supposed to need a national convention.

This is a clear case where a good, solid grass-roots campaign was stolen by out-of-touch RINO "leaders" who needed to make themselves look more conservative.

Nobody (except for liberals) fails to see that the "Tea Party" portrayed in the news is not the same as the TEA Party movement which rallied together people from all walks of life several years ago.

Why would you think this? The tea parties were created as local media events by billionaire Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News channel.

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

I think by several years ago he means January 2009.

 

[Robor]

hell if obama can't get people to buy tickets...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-23/obamas-fire-sale/

a grass roots campaign with no clear leader sure is going to have a tough time as well... especially in this economy.

No clear leader? That's odd. I could swear I heard about some event a short while ago with Beck and Palin championing it.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Only liberals believe that the Tea Party is actually a political party!

LOL!

Tea Party is a political party. The are not necessarily a "candidate" political party. That depends on organization and venue.

And yes, there have been elections with a "Tea Party" candidate.

 

[her209]

sshhhh. Don't remind them that their great orator can't fill seats either.

sshhhh... bring up Obama to take away attention from yourself.

The most likely reason the TPers couldn't go to the Vegas event is they spent a bunch of money going to the Glenn Beck rally last month.

So the Tea Party movement consists of about 500,000 people even by the most liberal estimators (the event organizers themselves). Doesn't sound like much of a "national movement" to me if that's the case.

:hmm:

 

[hal2kilo]

I thought the claim was that Tea Partiers were more well off and better educated...


Bill Clinton can afford it.

It's only class warfare when you talk about rich Republicans.

 

[dmcowen674]

Phillips said the event fell victim to the “Obama economy.”

Thank you Messiah Obama

He has saved us yet again from those Anti-Americans :thumbsup:

 

[SP33Demon]

The Republicans are a fractured mess.

 

[Fern]

TEA Party is not a political party.

Hence a 'national convention' has no purpose. The only real purpose could be for the organizers or other trying to co-opt it for their own purpose(s).

As I've said before, you can't control a true grassroots organization, that's the beauty of them (as well as the disadvantage). Any National Convention would just be an atempt to organize and control them. They ain't falling for it.

So, I'm not at all surprised the attemtp failed. I'd be surprised if it succeeded.

Fern

 

[PJABBER]

Tea Party is a political party. The are not necessarily a "candidate" political party. That depends on organization and venue.

And yes, there have been elections with a "Tea Party" candidate.

I'd love a link to their WWW page!

 

[ayabe]

I'd love a link to their WWW page!

Meeting notes are kept on the stormfront servers, everyone knows this.

 

[PJABBER]

BTW, the "progressives'" response to Tea Partiers was "The Coffee Party USA." They have a WWW page. They actually did have a national convention.

National “Coffee Party” convention is total failure

By: Mark Hemingway
The Washington Examiner
09/27/10 1:25 PM EDT

Remember the “Coffee Party?” Supposedly, it was a grassroots group started to counter Tea Party influence. But after it received lots of national media attention, it was revealed to have been started by a former New York Times employee and Democratic activists.

Well, apparently the “Coffee Party” had its first national convention and it proved to be a total bust, but strangely enough, they’re still being taken seriously by the media:

The Coffee Party USA — which was founded on Facebook and is holding its first national convention in Louisville this weekend — bills itself as a more thoughtful and reasoned alternative to the tea party.

Saturday night the organization held a panel discussion, part of its three-day “Restoring American Democracy” convention, that included bloggers, college professors and communications strategists talking about what they can do to make politics more inclusive. They also discussed how to draw more disenfranchised voters back into the democratic process.

The discussion before about 350 people at the Galt House touched on policy, politics and values and how to bridge the partisan divide.
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Whoa, 350 people for a national convention! Cup of Joementum! Please, please let’s make sure we set aside lots more column inches devoted to covering this important grassroots phenomenon that’s clearly having a big electoral impact.

(h/t to Gateway Pundit)​

Oh well, at least they weren’t kicked out this time.​

 

[PJABBER]

Meeting notes are kept on the stormfront servers, everyone knows this.

What's a "stormfront server"?

NM: I think I found it here - Storm Front Productions Enterprise-Level Website Hosting.

But "Tea Party" hosting not found. Client list here.

 

[Modelworks]

$399 ? You couldn't pay me that to attend . No way would I pay that to go !

 

[xj0hnx]

What's a "stormfront server"?

NM: I think I found it here - Storm Front Productions Enterprise-Level Website Hosting.

But "Tea Party" hosting not found. Client list here.

:hmm: I don't think that's the Stormfront that he was trying to link the TEA party people to.