The man holding the sign in the picture to the right is Dale Robertson the founder of Teaparty.org and the self proclaimed originator of the Tea Party movement. Mr. Robert (I assume based on the sign I need to address him as such) was the guest on the Lynn Rivers show this morning. Unfortunately there is not a podcast or transcript of their discussion because while Lynn Rivers is a very respectful and polite host she asked a number of poignant questions about the Tea Party movement most of which Mr. Robertson struggled to answer. At one point Lynn asked Mr. Robertson about examples of a one of the ideas which he based his Tea Party movement on and his answer was dead air followed by a few "um's" and he finally said something to the affect of I have a good answer for that but I just can't think of it right now. What? All you need is an example of why you started this movement in the first place and nothing comes to mind. Really?
Mr. Robertson actually spoke very intelligently on many other topics related to the Tea Party movement but he struggled mightily to provide a concrete description of what he was trying to accomplish answering a question of "what tax cuts would you make" with “I really don't want to get into specifics”.
In the end Mr. Robertson did more to persuade me that the Tea Party movement is made up of white people whose overriding similarity is that they are mad, than he did to convince me that he or any candidates he supports have a solution to the very issue that their party is supposed to stand for.
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