Damned Liberal

Teabaggers are fewer in number than many believe.
They appear larger, as a group, because of (a) all the media coverage they get and (b) the fact they are so loud and shrill ("squeaking wheel" and all that).

There were some teabaggers standing along a major highway not long ago holding signs of protest. Large signs. Bright colors. Big letters. They were very active: Frantically waving and yelling at passing cars. There were three of them. Three. The greater metropolitan area consists of over a million people. Three teabaggers.

Today's New York Times carries one of its almost-daily stories about the teabaggers at their "convention" in Tennessee. It reports:

Organizers said that anyone who had shown up “looking too crazy” would have been tossed out. They had a goal that it turned out pretty much everyone here shared: to turn the Tea Party into a serious political force, rather than the Nazis or birthers or lunatics they say they have been branded as.

So who was it that spoke to the "non-crazy" attendees yesterday?
Tom Tancredo, who unleashed his customary tanker-truck load of venom and hatred. Tancredo's remarks included this: "President Barack Obama was elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote.”

(Teabaggers, I've got news for you: If you're not admitting crazies, you missed one.)

Of course, the keynote speaker is the queen of crazies, Sarah Palin.

So we know they can't recognize "crazy" when they see it.

But here's the truly amazing part:
600 "estimated" attendees.

SIX HUNDRED PEOPLE!

Look at the media coverage:
A Google news search for "Tea Party convention Nashville" returned 1,827 results, including The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Faux News (of course), The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Newsweek, and, of course, hundreds of other media outlets.

It's crazy.

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