SARAH PALIN TO HEADLINE TEA PARTY CONVENTION

Sarah Palin will be the headline speaker in the nation’s first-ever Tea Party convention next month in Tennessee, raising the specter of a spin-off political party already laying claim to a presidential candidate. A generic “Tea Party” is already more popular than either Democrats or Republicans, while Palin rivals Obama in popularity in a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. “Tea types can either blossom into a Perotista-style third-party movement or be subsumed to some degree by the GOP,” notes Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post.

If having this warmongering Establishment neo-con speak at their convention is the Tea Party’s idea of bringing real change to the United States of Socialist America, you know what I think they can do with their idea. This is about on a par with the Libertarian Party nominating that “Republican in Libertarian’s clothing” Bob Barr over the great Mary Ruwart as their Presidential candidate in 2008.