Sarah Palin fires up tea party elites in Nashville convention

Excerpt, you can read the rest here.

One can only imagine what the tea party goers willing to fork over $500 for the privilege of attending the convention in Nashville believe because there seems to be little cohesion among them other than a general agreement of anger.

The tea party nation is elitist. They are people who can afford to pay over $500 to attend conventions, plus travel and accommodation expenses. They also have the financial means to travel all over the nation attending rallies at the behest of their likeliest leader, entertainer Glenn Beck. Most are anti-abortion but want the government to stay out of their lives. They want the government to limit the freedom American women have over their own reproduction while saying they want less government intervention in American lives. They don't seem to understand the paradox of inflicting their values on others by using the government while advocating smaller government.

The tea party isn't the Libertarian party. The only thing the two have in common are a desire for less government and the tea party doesn't understand that less government means less "God-fearing" and less intervention into women's reproductive rights. They don't seem to understand you can't have it both ways.

During the elitist Nashville tea party convention, Palin invoked the name of Ronald Reagan several times during her speech. Yet if President Reagan were alive, he would certainly not be a member of the tea party nation and would recognize that Sarah Palin is no more than a rabble rouser, one without creditable character or substance.

Sarah Palin invoked God in her Nashville speech as well. One wonders how she would interpret President Reagans' propensity to ask advice of astrologers instead of God. Palin criticized President Obama for using a teleprompter but so do most politicians, including the revered Ronald Reagan. Palin's criticism of President Obama for using a teleprompter seemed petty and tired especially considering that she had to refer to notes she wrote in her hand to answer the pre-screened questions from Chris Wallace of Fox cable network.

Palin said that the Republican party would do well to embrace the tea party nation but the Republican party doesn't appear to be embracing or rejecting Sarah Palin. The Republican party appears to be almost as afraid of Sarah Palin as they are of Rush Limbaugh.