The Teabaggers are Finished
The teabags have lost their flavor. The tea party’s lost its punch. They have always been a bad joke, with their very name causing scorn and derision to be heaped on them from the get go. Still, they managed to maintain and even expand their base. Sara Palin ditched autograph sessions and canceled speeches, but they still bought her books. There were more viral video moments making them look like complete idiots than you can shake a stick at and the idiots loved it.
But, like a bad catch-phrase, at some point the humor just dies and there is nothing left. The tea party had to postpone their convention from July to October, three weeks before it was to take place. They gave many reasons: the heat (should’ve thought of that before), a lot of people having to choose between family vacations and the convention (should’ve thought of that before) the recent emergence of new tea party groups and their desire to give them time to participate (fair enough) and they’d have more impact closer to the mid-term elections in November (should’ve thought of that before).
Assuming that reasons 1,2 and 4 are just CYA bullshit and political spin, or even if they are not, what it comes down to is they just didn’t have enough people to fill the room. If you cancel 3 weeks out, forcing people to change airline and hotel reservations, it’s because things weren’t working. They are through.
Then, there was this humdinger of an excuse: “We aren’t professional event planners.” Seriously. They are aiming for political power, they want to have a hand in managing the big event, and they think it’s not supposed to count against them that they can’t even manage to attract a crowd in Las Vegas, Nevada!
When the Democrats screwed up their balloon drop at the 2004 convention, that might have cost them the election right there. Eventually, they bounced back. I don’t think the tea party will be as resilient.
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