Tea Parties & Succession

I wanted to take a few days before I talked about these conservative tea parties, mostly because the Penguins started the playoffs. I have many random thoughts about these events and here we go.

First, these were clearly anti-Obama protests. Many admitted this, including my best friend Sean Hannity. Most of the picket signs were anti-Obama, and most of the participants had harsh messages toward our President. I, personally, do not have a problem with people protesting Obama. I do not agree with their views, but I am glad to see conservatives actually doing something other than bitch on talk show radio.

Second, this WAS organized. To say the 250,000 people got together all around the country was not organized is bullshit. I do not understand why no one is not taking a ton of credit for this because it is something I would take credit for doing. But lets just say this wasn't ogranized all that well, and people just showed up to hold up anti-Obama signs. If this is supposed to be a grassroots movement, the conservatives lost a golden opportunity to move forward. Did they get all 250,000 people to give there phone numbers, e-mails, and addresses? If not, what a waste. I doubt even conservatives would be that stupid, so YES, this was organized.

If you are a conservative, you should be pleased with these tea parties. They got national attention and 250,000 showed up (double the amount of people who go see Penn St. football games in Happy Valley). But that does not mean it was good for the GOP. The GOP is knee deep in the spending, the deficit, and taxes. The American public is not stupid. They realize that the GOP is to blame as well, and are just hiding behind and blaming a Democratic President. And with Obama's popularity still high, it is a dumb tactic.

We will see if anything comes from these tea parties. It was a good start for conservatives, but if they continue to focus on anti-Obama things only, they will likely fizzle out in importance.

Moving on, Rick Perry, governor of Texas, thought it would be a good idea to bring of succession from the Union. What a douche. Obviously, the fall out has been huge and he has gone back on these remarks. The thing that irks me the most is not his idiotic comments, but the way conservative commentators are backing him up. Last night Sean Hannity defended Perry and these dumb remarks. Now, could you imagine if a blue state's governor, like NY, even joked about succession during the Bush Admin. Holy shit, Sean Hannity would've been sent into a coma in anger. Hypocrisy at its best!