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Related: About this forumTea Party’s Woodstock fantasy: Cliven Bundy as the wingnuts’ latest ’60s-style protest hero
Conservative baby boomers finally have their very own anti-establishment festivals. The latest will crack you upHEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Ever since the Tea party started holding events back in 2009 its been clear that this is the conservative baby boomers long awaited chance to be a counterculture. They wear funny hats, they sing songs, they hold up signs (and if they had the courage of their convictions theyd even burn their Social Security cards). Tea Party protests are their Woodstock. In fact, theyve said so explicitly:
Tea Party activists are kicking off a grand national tour this weekend with an event targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in his small home town of Searchlight, Nevada an event that Tea Party Express describes as a conservative Woodstock.
Tomorrows Showdown In Searchlight event will feature none other than Sarah Palin, campaigning against the Senate Dem leader. A press release from Tea Party Express boasts of supporters arriving to camp out: It doesnt get closer to a Conservative Woodstock than this.
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http://www.salon.com/2014/04/23/tea_partys_woodstock_fantasy_cliven_bundy_as_the_wingnuts_latest_60s_style_protest_hero/
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Tea Party’s Woodstock fantasy: Cliven Bundy as the wingnuts’ latest ’60s-style protest hero (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2014
OP
DU should sponsor some portapotties in the names of various Republican leaders.
yellowcanine
Apr 2014
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Feral Child
(2,086 posts)1. Laughable.
Inept fever-dream.
packman
(16,296 posts)2. So on Monday
the day after the weekend protest, can we expect to see multiple pictures of misspelled signs held up in protest. And, if Sarah is going to be there, should we expect Ted Nugent as the entertainment?
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)6. Also Madison Rising and the Right Brothers
Naah...it'll be a long list of Neues Country bands.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)3. DU should sponsor some portapotties in the names of various Republican leaders.
We could have an orange one identified as Boehner's Office, for example.
Blue Idaho
(5,054 posts)4. I will make a prediction...
There will be more guns than people at this klan meeting.
LoisB
(7,223 posts)5. Wonder how much they're paying Palin to show up.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)7. $50,000, a private jet and bendy straws
How hard would it be to get her a C-17 and a one way trip to Afghanistan?
flying rabbit
(4,636 posts)8. Yes
This sounds EXACTLY like Woodstock. Once again conservatives unleash the fury of their cluelessness.