Would you want to attend the first-ever Tea Party Convention?
Almost 1-1/2 years since she shook up American politics with her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is set to headline another landmark political event: the first-ever Tea Party Convention next month in Nashville, Tenn…
…with an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll ranking a generic “Tea Party” as more popular than either Democrats or Republicans, and Palin herself rivaling the charming Mr. Obama in poll popularity, many experts see the Tea Party event as a potential milestone for a mounting, even transformational, force in US politics.
Palin will reportedly get a hundred grand to appear at this gig. I wonder how The Tea Party might become ‘transformational.’ I guess we’ll see after November. My best guess is that it will just help make Washington more stupid, dishonest, and dysfunctional. It will do this mainly by putting pressure on Republican officeholders to behave like boors.
