Florida Tea Party Convention Snubbed By Leading Republicans

Florida Tea Party Convention Snubbed By Leading Republicans (VIDEO)

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The decision by a number of prominent Republicans to skip a major statewide tea party convention has provoked frustration among its organizers and raised questions about the controversial positions advanced by some of the event's participants.

Tea party allies Gov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), Attorney General Pam Bondi (R-Fla.) and the leading Republican candidates for president have all declined invitations to the 2011 Florida Tea Party Convention. Senate candidates Adam Hasner and George LeMieux and Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) are not attending either.

Planners say it is the first time members of Florida's sizable tea party movement have convened at a conference of their own and believe the event will help galvanize the state's loosely affiliated chapters. Around 1,000 activists are expected to make their way to this balmy seaside resort town for the function, which features keynote addresses and seminars given by right-wing academics, political strategists, businesspeople, theologians and other conservatives.

The absence of marquee GOP officeholders or seekers has irked many high-ranking local tea party officials. Pamela Dahl, the convention's chair and president of Florida's Tri-County Tea Party, said she had hoped a live presidential forum would be one of the highlights of the three-day gathering.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/0 ... 77685.html

What if they gave a TeaParty party...and nobody came...including the Republicans?

Apparently the teabaggers "made their point", and the GOP has gone home...

LadyJazzer wrote:

Florida Tea Party Convention Snubbed By Leading Republicans (VIDEO)

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The decision by a number of prominent Republicans to skip a major statewide tea party convention has provoked frustration among its organizers and raised questions about the controversial positions advanced by some of the event's participants.

Tea party allies Gov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), Attorney General Pam Bondi (R-Fla.) and the leading Republican candidates for president have all declined invitations to the 2011 Florida Tea Party Convention. Senate candidates Adam Hasner and George LeMieux and Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) are not attending either.

Planners say it is the first time members of Florida's sizable tea party movement have convened at a conference of their own and believe the event will help galvanize the state's loosely affiliated chapters. Around 1,000 activists are expected to make their way to this balmy seaside resort town for the function, which features keynote addresses and seminars given by right-wing academics, political strategists, businesspeople, theologians and other conservatives.

The absence of marquee GOP officeholders or seekers has irked many high-ranking local tea party officials. Pamela Dahl, the convention's chair and president of Florida's Tri-County Tea Party, said she had hoped a live presidential forum would be one of the highlights of the three-day gathering.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/0 ... 77685.html

What if they gave a TeaParty party...and nobody came...including the Republicans?

Apparently the teabaggers "made their point", and the GOP has gone home...

It's no wonder. The GOP is no better than then any other opportunist politician, left or right, Independent or socialist... they got what they wanted from the Tea Party support before the 2010 elections... and now they are more concerned with keeping those jobs and not rocking the boat back in DC. You don't get to stay in DC unless you are in the pockets of the corporate cronies... and those Tea Party people are not on the side of the political entitlement class in Washington. The Tea Party will go down... Washington will see to that.

In 2010, the elections replaced minor Republican players. The Republican party bigwigs are still in control of the party and are not particularly anxious to see the results that may come with the 2012 election results. I am guessing that the Republican leaders will try to minimalize the Tea Party as the election gets near.

Both parties will launch a major attack against the Tea Party.

What makes you think the Democratic Party wants to attack the Tea Party? They help dilute the conservative vote. Just look at what they did for Hickenlooper when they supported Maes AND Tancredo.

All I know is what I read in the papers. (You know who)

Conservation Voice wrote: What makes you think the Democratic Party wants to attack the Tea Party

Um, because the tea party destroyed them in '10. Shellacking ring a bell?

And by now the country has seen the results of putting a bunch of extremist wackos in office, and buyer's remorse has set in. Don't expect it to continue. Taking the country to the brink of economic extinction and "just saying no" has shown that the teabaggers have nothing to sell except divisiveness, failure and moral extremism. Good...

Republican control of the House is not a "given."

LadyJazzer wrote: And by now the country has seen the results of putting a bunch of extremist wackos in office, and buyer's remorse has set in. Don't expect it to continue. Taking the country to the brink of economic extinction and "just saying no" has shown that the teabaggers have nothing to sell except divisiveness, failure and moral extremism. Good...

Republican control of the House is not a "given."

I will get back to you next year, pleasant dreams.
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One year out from the 2012 election, President Obama faces the most difficult reelection environment of any White House incumbent in two decades. But public disaffection with the party and a muddled battle for the GOP nomination leave open the possibility that Republicans will not be able to capitalize on the conditions that have put the president on the defensive. These conclusions are drawn from a Post-ABC News poll and from interviews with officials, strategists and advisers.

Geographically, the election will be won or lost in roughly a dozen states, beginning with most of those Obama took away from the Republicans in his first election but including a handful of traditional battlegrounds that may be more competitive than in 2008. Independents, as well as the coalition of African Americans, Latinos, younger voters and suburbanites that backed Obama in 2008, will again be key.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... al_comboNP

There are a lot of TEA Parties out there, so that may be the reason why they can't attend every event.