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ORIGINAL: brainiacsub
It did make the news. This was the first Tea Party convention in Nashville a couple of months back. Tancredo was the opening speaker, and to be fair, the speech was not received well. In fact, even a few boos could be heard from the audience.
But a couple of days later, Palin was the headliner for the exact same audience, and they cheered her and encouraged her to run for President. Later, in a pre-rehearsed interview, she got caught reading from her hand. Since it was middle-America moderates and independents who got Obama elected, not those damn poor people and ivory tower Liberals, I would argue that it is the hard core Palin supportin Tea Partiers who need the education in civics before being allowed to vote.
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
If that were true I'm sure it would have made the news.
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ORIGINAL: brainiacsub
The irony of it all. Sara Palin was the paid keynut speaker at this same event where Tancredo made this speech. The room was filled with bumpkins prepared to vote for Palin all the while protesting the intelligence of the dumb blacks and Mexicans.
Hmmm... I seem to remember a few of those topics popping up around here. First, that was the first national convention of Tea Partiers, not the first meeting of them. Second, the whole thing with Palin reading off of her hand was during the speech and not during an interview. Third, there definitely was a remark by one of the speakers suggesting that voters should be required to take and pass a civics (class) test. Finally, the irony of it all, is that your information about and the generalization of the folks that attended the thing as racists makes you just as guilty as those same ignorant, uninformed, angry folks I keep reading about around these parts.
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