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Will this be like herding bugs? I think so….

O’Neal compared his party’s role to that of the Conservative Party in New York’s 23rd District. Florida, however, lacks the “fusion” rules that has allowed third parties in New York to amass influence by offering their ballot line to acceptable major-party candidates.

It’s unclear if O’Neal, who has represented high-profile tax protesters, has the wherewithal to organize a movement that prides itself on spontaneity and existing outside party structures.

Sounds like an exercise in herding bugs to me.

The tea party folks are not run by logic or genuine knowledge: they are run on a finite set of talking points and anti-government delusions nurtured by talk radio for 30-some years.

Their actual “philosophy’ – sort of encapsulated in their anti-taxation frenzy – is an incoherent din of thought fragments linked by an undefinable idea that government is somehow evil and bad and can never work.

So they form their own party? Excellent comedy.

This should be VERY entertaining.

Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning certified the Tea Party as an official minor political party, according to a Tea Party statement released Friday.

“Over the past year or more, we have seen a growing disenchantment with the existing two-party system,” stated Orlando attorney Frederic O’Neal, Tea Party Chairman, in a press release. “The current system has become mired in the sludge of special interest money that seeks to control the leadership of both parties. It’s time for real change.

Time for Real Change.

Now THERE’S a slogan…just like “Change we can believe in”, right?

Such creative folks…..

Check out this comment at the last link:

Tea Party  (by: Richard Riker   –   11/7/2009):

“Who does this person Frederic O’neal think he is to think he can speak for the Tea Party as a whole? All he is doing is taking away votes that could go to Republican candidates. The Tea Party is not a political party it is a movement, guess he doesn’t understand. Did he consult with other Tea Parties? It doesn’t look like he consulted with anyone. His audacious move very likely has killed the Tea Party, maybe that is his motivation, after all the stealthy move was very Obama like.“

It would be great if this would work as a vote siphon to further weaken the GOP. The Tea Partiers claim to reject the 2 party system but they are republicans to the core.

Re-pub-lee-cans.

I can’t wait for this to either gain steam or totally fail in rapid fashion.

Either option is entertaining.

See Republican “Teabagging” and the “Tea Parties”: A Poll, Daily Kos, April 11, 2009, by Paul Evans:

Poll – 331 Votes

Republican “Teabagging”:

Might actually gain them some traction and will be (sadly) all over the mainstream media — until two days after Tax Day
14% 49 votes

Let’s be plain: it’s just the most stupid thing I have ever heard of, no need to elaborate
13% 45 votes

A desperate move conceived by increasingly desperate, delusional imbeciles
35% 118 votes

A national joke within a national joke
31% 105 votes

I drink coffee, I wouldn’t know
4% 14 votes

(Unfortunately, It got a little more serious than that.)