Tea Party
Romney wins straw poll in NH as Tea Party candidate takes GOP chairmanship
Former Governor Mitt Romney this afternoon handily won a New Hampshire straw poll of the party faithful, demonstrating his strength in the crucial first-in-the-nation primary state.
The poll, conducted at the Republican State Committee meeting in Derry, had Romney at 35 percent. Trailing him were Representative Ron Paul (11 percent), former […]
Tea Party Activist Takes Over New Hampshire Republicans (Good News for Sarah Palin)
DERRY, N.H. — A rancorous fight to lead the New Hampshire Republican Party through next year’s presidential race ended Saturday with an upset victory by a conservative activist backed by members of the Tea Party and other grassroots groups.
Jack Kimball, a relative newcomer to party politics who ran for governor last […]
Virginia Bill Asks For Tea Party License Plate
“Don’t Tread On Me” soon may become an oft-used expression on Virginia roads.
A state lawmaker is proposing a bill to create a license plate for Virginians to express solidarity with the spirit of the Tea Party movement.
At the request of constituents, Henrico County Republican Del. John O’Bannon has filed legislation to […]
Tea Partiers Target Scott Brown Over Support for Financial Overhaul (RINO in the crosshairs)
Sen. Scott Brown’s last-minute support for President Obama’s sweeping financial overhaul legislation has put him in the crosshairs of Tea Party activists who have sharply criticized the bill and could dim his re-election hopes for 2012.
Brown announced Monday he would support the regulatory overhaul despite initial misgivings, joining fellow New England Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe […]
Iowa Tea Party group’s sign links Obama, Hitler
DES MOINES, Iowa — A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is being condemned by other tea party activists.
The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the sign in Mason City last week.
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Tea Party vs Palin in Idaho House GOP primary, and Tea Party won
BOISE, Idaho — State Rep. Raul Labrador defeated Vaughn Ward in western Idaho’s 1st Congressional District and punched his ticket to face incumbent Democrat Walt Minnick in November.
“My friends, the key to our renewal is liberty,” Labrador told a cheering crowd at GOP headquarters in Garden City shortly before 1 a.m. Wednesday. “The answer to […]
Tea Party Candidate Ryan Paul wins GOP Kentucky nod
WASHINGTON (AP) — Political novice Rand Paul rode support from tea party activists to victory in Kentucky’s Republican Senate primary Tuesday night, delivering a jolt to the GOP establishment and providing fresh evidence of widespread voter discontent in a turbulent midterm election season.
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Obama’s Use of “Teabagger” Term Sparks Media Debate
ABC News’ Jake Tapper took heat from “some liberal bloggers” when he contrasted President Obama’s call for civility in politics with Obama’s use of the term “tea-bagger” in a November interview for Jonathan Alter’s new book. At issue was Tapper’s failure to point out that the term was originally coined by the Tea Party movement, […]
Blacks, the Media, & the Tea Parties - Are Liberal Racists?
I am exhausted. I returned home after performing at tea parties in 42 cities, from Searchlight, NV to Washington, D.C., in nineteen days while on the Tea Party Express III tour. I’m black conservative singer/songwriter, entertainer, author, and spokesperson Lloyd Marcus.
I wish to share with you how the liberal mainstream media has dealt with my […]
Obama’s midterm election strategy: Mock ‘Tea Party’ members?
Even diehard Obama supporters had to cringe this past week. Had to.
At least when Joe Effing Biden puts his foot in his mouth, everyone gets a laugh out of it, and it’s chalked up to Joe Biden being the crazy uncle of the White House. Uncle Fester with hair (kinda).
But when President Obama inserted both […]
White NBC Reporter Confronts Black Man at Tea Party Rally: ‘Have You Ever Felt Uncomfortable?’
“There aren’t a lot of African-American men at these events,” NBC News reporter Kelly O’Donnell, a white woman, told Darryl Postell, a black man at a Tea Party rally held Thursday in Washington, DC, pressing him, in an exchange she chose to include in her NBC Nightly News story, to address her prejudiced assumptions: “Have […]
Tea Party Crash Fizzles Out
After several days of hype and hand-wringing about liberal plans to infiltrate Thursday’s tea party rallies, the great 2010 Tax Day Tea Party Crash did not produce much of a bang in Washington.
To be sure, a handful of obvious crashers engaged in some mostly non-confrontational back-and-forth with tea party activists at a Thursday evening rally […]
Obama On Tea Partiers: “You Would Think They’d Be Saying Thank You” (Video)
AP: President Barack Obama said Thursday he’s amused by the anti-tax tea party protests that have been taking place around Tax Day.
Obama told a fundraiser in Miami that he’s cut taxes, contrary to the claims of protesters.
“You would think they’d be saying thank you,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com
Expose the Tea Party Crashers
So let’s work together to beat them at their own game. If you see anyone with an offensive sign, take a picture of it and forward it to us at Pajamas Media. Mail it to our tips address (story@pajamasmedia.com) and we’ll publish it, along with an explicit statement that this doesn’t reflect the real tea […]
Woman Assaulted By Obama Fanatic At Princeton, Minnesota TEA Party Patriot Meeting
An infiltrator at the Milaca TEA Party Patriots meeting today struck a woman tea partyer. (Victims name withheld by Request - we will only identify her as “T”)
The Milaca TEA Party Patriots group meets twice a month, once as a business meeting and once as a more social meeting. The agenda for today’s social function […]
Tea partiers vow revenge over health overhaul
If you thought Tea Party activists were mad before, you ain’t seen nothing yet.Instead of being discouraged by passage of health care reform, tea party activists across the country say the defeat is a rallying cry that makes them more focused than ever on voting out any lawmaker who supported the measure.
“We’re not going to […]
Show Prince The Door Out: Showdown in Searchlight - March 27th (TeaParty Express Video)
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Showdown in Searchlight - March 27th
Tea Party, British Edition: Britons to hold Tea Party protest
Conservatives in Britain will hold their first Tea Party protest in Brighton on Saturday, with British member of the European parliament (and frequent Fox News guest) Daniel Hannan giving the keynote.
The party web site is here.
“Labour has raised more than a trillion pounds in additional taxation since 1997. Yet, unbelievably, Gordon Brown has still managed […]
Tea Party Express Spending in Support of Scott Brown Surpasses $300,000+
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 18, 2010
CONTACT: Levi Russell at (509) 979-6615 or Levi@FrontLineStrat.com
Tea Party Express Spending in Support of
Scott Brown Surpasses $300,000+!
On Monday, the Tea Party Express (www.TeaPartyExpress.org) launched a final advertising salvo of TV and online ads supporting Scott Brown for U.S. Senate.
This latest action brings the total pro-Brown Independent Expenditure by the Tea Party Express to over $300,000.
In […]
Wake Up America:Tea Party Movement Evolves Into Political Force With Eye Toward 2010
The “tea party” movement that gained steam shortly after President Obama took office is seeing a surge in popularity, with a string of candidates and officials willing to take up its cause and a political infrastructure that’s starting to mirror that of an actual political party.
What started as a conservative protest klatch has evolved into […]