Palin, Bachmann to headline Tea Party conventionCNN reports that
Sarah Palin will be the main attraction at what's being billed as the "First National Tea Party Convention."
Tea Party Nation announced Wednesday that last year's Republican vice presidential candidate will serve as keynote speaker for the conference, scheduled to take place in Nashville, Tennessee February 4-6. A representative for Palin has not confirmed the former Alaska governor's speaking role at the gathering.
The group also announced that Rep. Michele Bachmann will be speaking at the gathering as well. The Minnesota Republican has become a hero among many in the conservative movement. A representative for Bachmann confirms her speaking role.
If this doesn't have shades of Nuremberg, I know of no event that does. Just look at the keynote speakers. It's like having Ernst Rohm in a tutu along with Alfred Rosenberg (you decide which is which). If there are two more intellectually void members of the GOP hierarchy, they're remaining well hidden (and there are quite a few contenders!).
If the NSDAP was anti-intellectual, the GOP is giving them a run for their money. Ask yourself: Is this the best they can do?
I would not expect a lot to come out of this beyond hateful hyperbole. To date, neither woman has managed much beyond ad hominem attacks against liberalism in general and President Obama in particular.
The best possible outcome for liberals is that these two manage to boost themselves into the Republican stratosphere during this rousing Parteitag. If hot air and hate are the qualifications (and they seem to be), they should do well, if only because Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck (Rudolf Hess and Joseph Goebbels?), the closest contenders in terms of overall IQ aren't going to be there.
So RAISE THE BANNER Tea Partiers! I can hear the music now as Palin and Bachmann approach the stage!
The flag high! The ranks tightly closed!
Tea Party marches with a calm, firm pace.
Comrades whom the liberals and socialists shot dead
March in spirit within our ranks.
Clear the streets for the brown battalions,
Clear the streets for the stormtroopers!
Already millions look with hope to the swastika
The day of freedom and bread is dawning!
Rollcall has sounded for the last time
We are all prepared for the fight!
Soon hate's flag will fly over the barricades.
Our servitude will not last much longer now!
The flag high! The ranks tightly closed!
Tea Party marches with a calm, firm pace.
Comrades whom the liberals and socialists shot dead
March in spirit within our ranks.
1 comments:
"The best possible outcome for liberals is that these two manage to boost themselves into the Republican stratosphere during this rousing Parteitag."
I wonder how many people, back in pre-War Germany, thought that the Nazis with their S.A. goons were a bunch of pathetic losers who would never amount to anything and failed to take them seriously. Until it was too late.
Your version of Die Fahne Hoch duly noted. In exchange, a quotation from "The Reisistible Rise of Arturo Ui":
If we could learn to look instead of gawking,
We’d see the horror in the heart of farce,
If only we could act instead of talking,
We wouldn’t always end up on our arse.
This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;
Don’t yet rejoice in this defeat, you men!
Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.
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