Organizers of the Freedom Jamboree announced Wednesday that they have canceled the tea party convention planned for this fall, citing low registration.
They had hoped the event would serve as a stage for Republican presidential candidates to court the conservative movement, and two —Koch whoreRep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) and former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.) — had already confirmed they would attend.
The weekend of reflection and strategizing was scheduled for Sept. 28 to Oct. 2 in Kansas City, Kan., and included a straw poll. Twenty-one local tea party groups started it with the intent to reclaim the movement from national umbrella groups and offer an alternative to the annual fall tea party rally on the National Mall."National umbrella groups" is code for the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity and the corporate-funded FreedomWorks.
It's too bad, really. We can sympathize with some of the real Tea Partiers' agenda. Their opposition to job-killing trade deals is a case in point. The Kochs and the corporations sure can't get behind that.
And here's a related question: What if they made a movie about Sarah Palin and no one came to see it? An Atlantic Monthly writer went to the premier in Orange County, Calif.:
It isn't strictly accurate to say that I sat through the whole movie alone. Just as the previews started, two young women walked in giggling together and took seats three rows behind me.
