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So much for the party. Organizers of the planned Tea Party Nation Convention, which had already been postponed once, announced this week that the gathering was being scrapped entirely.

The reason? Slow ticket sales, according to Judson Phillips, one of the ring leaders of the event, which was to be held in Las Vegas next month. The cost of the convention, which ran as high as $399, was just too much for many of the movement’s devotees.

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Tea partiers have reacted angrily whenever one group or another has tried to claim leadership over the movement.

Last year, Judson Phillips, a lawyer in Nashville, formed a group called Tea Party Nation and announced the first-ever tea party convention, in his hometown. The event drew heavy news media attention and elevated Sarah Palin, the keynote speaker, as a movement leader. But tea partiers around the country lashed out against the convention as being anti-"tea." The entry fee was $549; Palin was to be paid $100,000 to show up. Phillips was accused of trying to make a buck off the movement.


Another large tea party organizer, Tea Party Express, is an arm of the Sacramento-based Republican consulting firm Russo Marsh & Rogers. It has also come under criticism for grabbing the spotlight by anointing its candidates as the tea party pick, even when local tea party groups were supporting other contenders.

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Yeah, Christine O'Donnell is nothing at all like Palin, is she?

It takes someone as dumb as Kaney to think there's any legitimacy behind the tea-baggers. It's a movement, all right - the kind you usually flush twice after!

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Friday, September 24, 2010
I hate Obama's America. You're damn right about that.


Friday, May 28, 2010 - 18:26 To President Obama:
Mr. President, you're a god damn, mother fucking liar.
Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.

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Originally posted by whozit:

It's a huge group of people that don't plan, they react.

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Originally posted by kaneman:
It is a movement, a cause....not a party.

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Morning Edition is taking a closer look at the groups that make up the Tea Party. Steve Inskeep talks to Toby Marie Walker, lead facilitator for the Waco Tea Party, and Bryan Fischer, of the American Family Association. Walker says the Tea Party's issues need to remain strictly fiscal. Fischer says that if the Tea Party doesn't incorporate social issues into its agenda, it runs the risk of dividing the conservative movement.

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