Tea time on “Dancing With the Stars”
Bristol Palin
After stumbling through another lack luster performance on “Dancing With The Stars” last Monday, viewers were surprised that although she has consistently scored lowest in the competition, Bristol Palin survived to dance for yet another week.
Bristol struggled through the “Instant Dance” as she tried very hard to stay alert and connected to the music. Many believe that Bristol, the 20-year old daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, is being kept alive on the show because of her mother’s avid and loyal Tea Party following.
“There’s a strong popular movement behind Sarah Palin at the moment and she’s receiving a lot of support from the Tea Party,” Conrad Green, executive producer of the program, said recently. “It’s entirely possible some of those people are behind Bristol for political reasons.”
The notion that tea partiers would support a candidate for reasons other than that candidate’s qualifications and proven ability to perform is not surprising. We watched Christine O’Donnell’s campaign for Joe Biden’s old seat in Delaware last month. The tea party threw their support behind O’Donnell amid allegations of campaign fraud, theft of services, and unpardonable blunders from Christine herself. Many Republicans believe that O’Donnell and 2 other tea party-backed candidates upset the Republican establishment in the primary and then fell short in the general election costing the party three Senate seats, which may have been enough to bring them to a 50-50 tie with Democrats.
The tea party should stay out of DWTS. They should focus more on smaller government, fiscal responsibility, free markets and the other principles they espouse and not try to influence the outcome of a dance contest which others are working hard to win. The person who takes home the mirror ball should be the best dancer, the one who worked the hardest and performed the best. Brandy and Jennifer Gray outperform Bristol week after week. The tea party should hang up the phones to the voting lines and starting vetting their candidates for 2012.
Ok, I am tired of all of this. Why doesn’t the left winged liberals just stay out of this. How about that there are some of us who just think she is doing better each week and she has just as much right as, OMG Kurt Warner, to be there. She is no better or worse than the two stiff athletes who were voted off. This is not a political thing. The left wing liberal media need to quit making it as such. Stay out of it and try reporting something truthful for a change. Go cover your chosen one for awhile and see what dirt you can dig up on him. If you need help it does not take much to find stuff. You are all sick!
1Dee, I think you may have missed the point of the article. Just as in the DWTS election, Tea Partiers voted for some candidates just because they were Tea Party darlings….not because they were qualified….a move that distracts from what the TP says they’re really about. This can only hurt their credibility and avowed purpose. Admittedly, this bias is not limited to the Tea Party. It exists in the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, etc., etc. parties. If you are a Tea Party supporter, you should agree and support the point of Wendy’s article.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am an independent. I believe the TP is full of hypocrisy and irrationality….they want to cut gov spending except when it hits their own pockets and entitlements (No government run health care and, oh, don’t touch my Medicare), when they have the opportunity to vote against a person who blatantly defrauded the American people, they voted him into office as governor of Florida just so the Democrat (the more honorable choice) would lose. Oh well…..
2OH! I get it. Only Democrats are allowed, nay encouraged, to vote for community agitators with no qualifications applicable to the position they’re running for.
Paaaaaaaaaaaaaleeze. It’s a TV show, fer cryin’ out loud! And EVERY week the emcees say: “Vote for your FAVORITE dancer.” or “Vote for the couple/star you want to COME BACK next week.”
YOUR favorite LOST. Get over it.
Hopefully, we can vote off that whiny Jennifer, (i.e. put Baby in the corner, even tho I luv Derek) and get rid of phony Brandy (and she can take Maks [not Max] and his ego with her). I will be thrilled if Bristol or Kyle wins.
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