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bondwooley

(1,198 posts)
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 11:22 AM Feb 2013

The Tea Party's $10,000 Pyramid Scheme

Karl Rove says that "sane Republicans" will start showing up on election ballots, and that's got the Tea Party is up in arms.

“But wait!” says the Tea Party. “Sane candidates are not going to be on our butterfly ballots!” So to foil Rove’s Sisyphean attempt at finding someone both marginally sane and Republican, they’ve set up a new PAC to “help Tea Party candidates challenge entrenched, big-government Republicans for the nomination.”

And — best of all — veteran conservative activist Richard Viguerie has offered a whopping $10,000 prize to any grassroots conservative who can “submit a plan or ideas to take over the Republican Party, win the November 2016 elections, and govern America by 2017.”


An outside poll is asking how the Tea Party Patriot who comes up with the winning plan to save the GOP is going to spend that fortune.

- Install a skylight in their bomb shelter?

- Finally get that back-alley abortion?

- Stash it all under a mattress so as not to jeopardize their government handouts?

How do YOU think the savior of the GOP is going to spend their prize money?

(Source: http://lesterandcharlie.com/2013/02/21/the-10000-pyramid-scheme/)
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The Tea Party's $10,000 Pyramid Scheme (Original Post) bondwooley Feb 2013 OP
10K? Chump Change... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #1
GUNS Angry Dragon Feb 2013 #2
Easy one. The winner will buy Gold with it. True, it won't be much gold, but gold it will be. 1-Old-Man Feb 2013 #3
Plastics. nt scrubthedata Feb 2013 #4

KharmaTrain

(31,706 posts)
1. 10K? Chump Change...
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 11:31 AM
Feb 2013

There are "consultants" who can rack up those fees in less than a week. Someone better tell old Richie it's 2013 not 1966...

The failure of the rushpublicans and teabaggers is their entire reason for being is to destroy government thus they can't govern. They're in constant campaign mode...and that mode is to "prove" the Raygun mantra that "government is the problem". Any rational politician had to give up on the concept of accomplishing anything other than to stay out of the bad graces of rushbo, beck and the great unhinged. Any "moderate" is sure to face a challenge and this silly PAC (yet another scam to separate the tea from their bags) shows how corrupt their inept party has become.

I'm quite happy with most of the oxygen thieves they've run for office...they make Democrats look more and more reasonable and responsible...

1-Old-Man

(2,667 posts)
3. Easy one. The winner will buy Gold with it. True, it won't be much gold, but gold it will be.
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 11:42 AM
Feb 2013

It very much surprises me that no one calls the price of gold what it is, a bubble. But all the survivalists believe in it, so there you go.

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