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Palin tells audience "Tea Party movement is not a party"

Yesterday at an event hosted by the Arkansas Republican Party, Sarah Palin told the audience that the Tea Party is not strong enough to field its own candidates on a Tea Party ticket so they need to pick a Party, preferably the Republican Party.

In a report by CBS, Palin gave a 45 minute speech, which was followed up by a Q and A session (preselected questions) moderated by Arkansas Republican Party Chairman Doyle Webb inside the 18,000-seat Verizon Arena, where less than half of the seats in the lower bowl were occupied, and the entire upper level was shrouded by black drapes.

Palin called the Tea Party movement, "a grand movement" adding, "I love it because it's all about the people."

Right after she heaped praise for the Tea Party she moved in for the kill to try and pull the Tea Party over to the dark side, I mean the Republican Party, the GOP (Grand Obstructionist Party), the "Party of No", the conservatives.

Palin told them; "Now the smart thing will be for independents who are such a part of this Tea Party movement to, I guess, kind of start picking a party," Palin said. "Which party reflects how that smaller, smarter government steps to be taken? Which party will best fit you? And then because the Tea Party movement is not a party, and we have a two-party system, they're going to have to pick a party and run one or the other: 'R' or 'D'."

Well there you have it, Palin tell the Tea Party that they cannot field their own candidates and that while they are "a grand movement", vote for Republicans because we are the Party of small government and fiscal responsibility, even though every republican president the last 50 years has nearly doubled the size of the government along with the national debt.

Palin marginalized the Tea Party with her saying that they are not capable of running their own candidate and then ridicules them some more by saying that its time to pick either the "R" or the "D". Palin knows that they have already qualified candidates in some States such as Nevada where the Tea Party is now recognized and they are running their own candidate against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).

The Tea Party should tell Palin that she and her Party are not one of them, the GOP does NOT represent the Party of small government and fiscal responsibility, and that they will support the candidates that they want, not the candidates that the Republican Party tells them to support.

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Joe the Plumber dumps on John McCain and Sarah Palin
Before sinking back into well-deserved obscurity, Sam Wurzelbacher says John McCain 'really screwed my life up'

He wasn't a plumber and his name wasn't Joe – but he became famous for 15 minutes during the 2008 presidential elections after John McCain decided to latch on to him during the Republican campaign's death-spiral.

Still not comfortable with his inevitable fate as a future Trivial Pursuit question, Joe – real name Sam Wurzelbacher – still pops up at fringe political events. And this weekend it finally dawned upon him what presidential campaigns are all about – and what his precise role in 2008 was.

Scott Detrow, a reporter for Pennsylvania Public Radio, heard Wurzelbacher speaking at a Republican gubernatorial candidate's gig in Pennsylvania, in which he laid into Palin and McCain, calling McCain a "career politician" and lambasting Palin for supporting McCain's Arizona senate primary race (where McCain is struggling to see off a red-meat Republican challenger).

Detrow asked Wurzelbacher why he was biting McCain's hand, after it was McCain who shone the national spotlight on him by repeated references in a presidential candidates' debate. "I don't owe him shit. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it," Wurzelbacher told Detrow. "McCain was trying to use me. I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy."

President Obama, on the otherhand, got more respect from the artist formerly known as Joe the Plumber: "I think his ideology is un-American, but he's one of the more honest politicians. At least he told us what he wanted to do." And Wurzelbacher also had common-sense views on the crazies who dispute Obama's nationality and compare him to Hitler. "The birthers, the truthers — if people are trying to bunch them [with tea partiers], that would kill us. That just pushes away Democrats and independents who might come out for our cause otherwise."

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