tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post1266355930943098772..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: Tea Party Express official says liberal media used TPM's 'totally bogus story'Robert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-75456103526883759612009-12-31T18:27:32.605-05:002009-12-31T18:27:32.605-05:00What's disgusting is that you're right -- ...What's disgusting is that you're right -- this isn't a scandal. It's just business as usual for an opportunist Republican Party that quickly moves to co-opt any movement for smaller government and more freedom and convert it into a GOP pep rally / spam mill. The Tea Party "movement" has pretty much become the MoveOn of the right.<br /><br />There may still be <em>some</em> local Tea Party organizations that continue to run on the original impulse, but here in St. Louis it has become all GOP bullshit all the time. Bill Hennessy, the local "tea party coordinator" is constantly filling my inbox with appeals for money for the usual big-government Repugnican candidates for office.<br /><br />Can't say its surprising, but its certainly disgusting. I feel sorry for all those who were, and especially those who continue to be, fooled.Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-35396826256551207532009-12-30T22:22:47.239-05:002009-12-30T22:22:47.239-05:00Funny... I got a form email, "insert name her...Funny... I got a form email, "insert name here" placeholders and all, as a comment to two of my posts today. The emails were a regurgitation of the TPM story.<br /><br />I canned them like the spam they were.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com