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[johnhp]

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You righties have some explaining to do.  If the baggers are the last, greatest hope for your kook political movement, why is the Senate candidate running from having cultivated their support?

State Sen. Scott Brown told reporters in Massachusetts today he was "unfamiliar" with the "Tea Party movement," despite earning the endorsement from one of the groups who is raising money for his campaign to win the U.S. Senate seat Tuesday.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/brown-tea-party-movement-what-tea-party-movement.php

Scott Brown don't know nuthin about no Teabaggin?

Early this morning Tea Party Express organizers asked for donations to help Brown:

"We are in a fundraising drive so that we can buy as many TV ads supporting Brown as possible," they wrote to supporters.

[same link]

That is oddly kind for a group of people he had never heard of.

Sen. Brown addressing the Worcester Tea Party

http://www.flickr.com/photos/statesenatorscottbrown/3901013204/

So this image, from his campaign Flickr seems to document Brown as a liar.

[Pepsi]

Worcester Tea Party - Senator Scott Brown	Small | Large

Scott Brown addressing the movement he "is not familiar with"

[johnhp]

Maybe i was right all along and republicanism is a mental disorder.

[lucy]

Maybe it's a different tea party....

"Boston Tea Party endorses Joe Kennedy for US Senate

For Immediate Release
December 26, 2009

Boston Tea Party National Committee has, by a vote of 4-0 with two members not voting, endorsed Joe Kennedy for US Senate. Joe Kennedy is running as an independent in the special election to fill the seat vacated by the late Edward Kennedy from Massachusetts (he is not related to the late Senator).

Joe Kennedy recently announced his support of HR 4248, the Free Competition in Currency Act, a bill endorsed by the BTP National Committee as part of the "Honest Money" Resolution. At-Large Rep. Darryl W. Perry said, "Joe Kennedy is the only candidate (in this election) that supports a Competitive Currency (establishing an effective monetary policy to maintain strong currency at home and a competitive currency abroad for balancing trade,) and an Audit/End of the Federal Reserve System."

BTP Chairman Doug Gaking added, "He supports Ron Paul's Audit the Fed and Free Competition of Currency acts and takes a strict libertarian position on just about everything."

In accepting the endorsement, Kennedy commented, "I am very excited to receive the endorsement of the Boston Tea Party. Before I was a politician I was a TEA Party Activist and like millions of others I see the looming problems with our government. Our great nation is rapidly racing toward bankruptcy. Taxation is growing without restraint and the freedoms and ideals we grew up with are vanishing. All the while our politicians have stopped caring and stopped listening to the wants and needs of the population. As a country we deserve lower taxes and a smaller, more responsible and less intrusive government. As TEA Party Activists we insist on more freedom, State's rights and a government that listens to the people it represents not one that takes our money and turns a deaf ear to the population it supports. These are the needs of our nation and the foundation of the Boston Tea Party and my candidacy. I am running on Tea Party Principals and I will represent them fully in the Senate. My gratitude (goes out) to the Boston Tea Party for the honor of their endorsement."

The Boston Tea Party was founded in 2006 with a one sentence platform, "The Boston Tea Party supports reducing the size, scope and power of government at all levels and on all issues, and opposes increasing the size, scope and power of government at any level, for any purpose." In October 2008, the party's National Convention adopted the four point program of the Campaign for Liberty. Their program calls for an end to overseas occupation, a restoration of privacy and other liberties, no increase in the national debt, and a thorough review of the Federal Reserve."

link  http://www.bostontea.us/node/759

[Pepsi]

Maybe it's a different tea party....

I think it is.. this one looks quite different than the tea party platforms, it looks Ron Paul-ish

http://www.bostontea.us/program

1. Foreign Policy: The Iraq War must end as quickly as possible with removal of all our soldiers from the region. We must initiate the return of our soldiers from around the world, including Korea, Japan, Europe and the entire Middle East. We must cease the war propaganda, threats of a blockade and plans for attacks on Iran, nor should we re-ignite the cold war with Russia over Georgia. We must be willing to talk to all countries and offer friendship and trade and travel to all who are willing. We must take off the table the threat of a nuclear first strike against all nations.

-that's not something those tea baggers I know would sign up for as far as I can tell

[Velleity]

Maybe i was right all along and republicanism is a mental disorder.

There's certainly a great deal of unhealthiness about "conservatives."

[lucy]

I think it is.. this one looks quite different than the tea party platforms, it looks Ron Paul-ish

http://www.bostontea.us/program

1. Foreign Policy: The Iraq War must end as quickly as possible with removal of all our soldiers from the region. We must initiate the return of our soldiers from around the world, including Korea, Japan, Europe and the entire Middle East. We must cease the war propaganda, threats of a blockade and plans for attacks on Iran, nor should we re-ignite the cold war with Russia over Georgia. We must be willing to talk to all countries and offer friendship and trade and travel to all who are willing. We must take off the table the threat of a nuclear first strike against all nations.

-that's not something those tea baggers I know would sign up for as far as I can tell

What do YOUR tea-bagger friends say they want?

[Velleity]

In light of Jane Hamsher's unforgivable overtures toward the teabaggers, maybe this explains some of it?

Thom Hartmann has been making me nauseous of late on this subject too. To suggest that we liberals have anything in common with these hate-based racists is beyond my ability to comprehend.

But perhaps wingnuts find an alliance with the extreme left as repulsive and I find wingnuts to be?

[johnhp]

Maybe it's a different tea party....

He is pretending not to know the people before whom he earlier spoke.

[johnhp]

There's certainly a great deal of unhealthiness about "conservatives."

You have a flair for understatement.

[lucy]

He is pretending not to know the people before whom he earlier spoke.

I think there is more than meets the eye here....looking at some of the comments over at the Boston Tea Party site...there seems to be a faction which wants to endorse the Republican Brown, and another which has already endorsed Kennedy...

hmmmm.

Created chaos is always an interesting thing to observe.

[Pepsi]

What do YOUR tea-bagger friends say they want?

It seems to me all of these tea bagging types supported the wars George Bush started and can't wait to start a new one with Iran.  Plank #1 on the Boston Tea Party group you sent is totally against all of that.   

[lucy]

Well, hmmmm. This gets curiouser and curiouser....

This is almost as interesting as Pat "voodoo-slayer" Robertson endorsing Rudy Guliani for president after his failed bid for office/

[johnhp]

I think there is more than meets the eye here....

[Case_Closed]

More like Tea Badgers; amirite?