This weekend, we stand on the doorstep of the 2012 Republican Convention.
That convention will begin on Monday, come rain or shine…Hurricane or not In Tampa and just like the expected weather, the event itself will be somewhat stormy.
Not every Republican is happy with the event because not every Republican is happy that Mitt Romney will officially become the GOP Nominee.
Various factions of the Tea Party are holding out hope that their choice, somehow, will become the nominee.
Such is the nature of the Tea Party with which I am proud to identify.
In those early months of the Tea Party, liberals tried, in vein, to label us as everything from racists to angry mobs, to ready for the padded rooms at Bellevue.
But, do you remember the first label? The very first one so falsely attributed to the Tea Party?
Astroturf.
It was April 15th, 2009. TAX DAY. That’s when Nancy Pelosi stepped to a microphone and stated, “This [tea party] initiative is funded by the high end — we call call it astroturf, it’s not really a grassroots movement. It’s astroturf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class. “
Astroturf. NOT a real grassroots movement.
Some of the wealthiest people in America trying to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich.
