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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-05-10 08:46 PM
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Tea Party sponsor wants "to find as many Christians, as many concerned Americans as I can"
I'm a Christian, so this is not a Christian-bashing thread. I'm basically posting this to distance myself from the kind of "Christians" this guy is looking for with the "finances that people are gracious to give" to him.

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Video @ the URL below.

Rick Scarborough Defends Palin Profiting From Her Tea Party Conference Appearance
By Heather Friday Feb 05, 2010 1:00pm

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/rick-scarborough-defends-palin-profiting-h

Norah O'Donnell asks Vision America and Tea Party Convention sponsor Rick Scarborough if he's got any problem with Sarah Palin profiting from her speaking engagement at the National Tea Party Convention and the fact that she is using her PAC money to buy copies of her book rather than contribute to candidates.

Of course Scarborough just trusts Palin completely and doesn't see any problem with what she's doing. I don't think I've seen this much spin out of anyone on the talking head shows on cable news in a long time. When these Tea Bag Party protesters are going to wake up to being taken for a ride by the Republicans and Palin who's lining her pocket is beyond me. I doubt it's any time soon if they all just keep watching ClusterFox for their "news".

O’Donnell: But what I’m raising questions with you as someone who feels so strongly about this is whether the Tea Party is actually a movement for change of if it’s one where people are making a personal profit off of some people who want to make change. Let me just show you, Think Progress which of course is a progressive organization has reported that the event organizers of the Tea Party Express manager and Republican public relations firm Russo, Marsh and Rogers has padded its pocket with over one million dollars in money raised by the Tea Party group. Does that concern you that funds by people who want change are being used to pad consultants rather than to elect people that you want to change Washington?

Scarborough: Once again Norah I’m not here to defend or deny; I don’t have enough information to even make a judgement on those kinds of things but what I can say to you is that I am going to invest my time and energy and any finances that people are gracious to give me to do it to find as many Christians, as many concerned Americans as I can, inform them of what the issues are and get them to the polls to vote in the primaries and finally in the election in the fall and I’m grateful for this opportunity to look anybody that will listen in the eye and say hey join us. Join us for the cause of changing America.
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PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-05-10 08:51 PM
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1. He says Christians and concerned Americans
As though the two concepts can't possibly be mutually exclusive. The Reich Wing strikes again.
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-05-10 09:05 PM
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2. Both kinds
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-05-10 09:12 PM
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3. But, but, but., Sarah said she would not be making a profit..
That the $100K would go right back into the cause.

Cause Sarah said so. You betcha.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-05-10 09:14 PM
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4. These are the kinds of people who should not be running our country.
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