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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.

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RNC Chairman Michael Steele has been doing a lot more for the GOP than they have been doing for him. He provides cover for the GOP’s racially tinged political strategy by distinction. Steele is an African American in the highest position the GOP has to offer; he is the face of the Republican Party, despite the fact a substantial part of the body [base] is lily white. Steele’s chairmanship allows the GOP to take a preemptive, more adverse stance than would be normal against a wartime president bogged down by an economic crisis, even granting the GOP a pass to flirt with the likes of the Tea Party and Birthers without the stain of being called a party of bigots. How can they? The head of the RNC is black.

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Recently Sean Hannity has been forced to work his studio horse double-time, corralling wayward republicans and tea party activists back into the Republican sty. Hannity, known for his ability to fill the trough in one oral swoop, told his listeners the Tea Party movement he once proselytized was impeding the conservative agenda. His cute, cuddly grassroots movement that was once so easy to manipulate was growing too large, wild and out of control for its purpose. In the name of party unity, Sean was figuratively breaking-a-sweat from hogtying his tea party leaning callers; he made a point to tell his audience the conservative agenda could possibly meet defeat in November, if tea party candidates continued to challenge republican incumbents and candidates in Republican primaries; and then, in an almost frantic tone, he listed “Hannity Approved” incumbents and candidates who were facing tea party challengers.

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The economic crisis and unemployment have added a blistering crack to the political whip the Tea Party has been wielding at the democrats for the last 8 months. While welting democrats and defaming President Obama, they have effectively corralled the nation’s attention with its own brew of government accountability and reining in spending, essentially neutralizing the democratic gains of the 2006 and 2008 elections. To the democrats’ chagrin, the movement has also managed to sublimate the nation’s frustrations to the democratically-controlled congress. Tea Partiers like their tea black when it comes to message – no milk, no sugar, simply the hot brew. But who exactly is the Tea Party serving?

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