[Peace-discuss] Escaping 'two-party' control

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Perhaps Palin read the poll that shows the Republican party with a 28% approval
rating, the Democrats with 35% - and the Tea Party people in the lead with 41%.
Similarly, a poll for "most-admired woman in the US" saw Michelle Obama in 4th
place, Oprah in 3rd - and Palin and Clinton tied for first.  As Chomsky says,
"...there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left,
to just ridicule them, but that's not the right reaction. If you look at those
people and listen to them on talk radio, these are people with real grievances
... For 30 years their wages have stagnated or declined, the social conditions
have worsened, the children are going crazy, there are no schools, there's
nothing, so somebody must be doing something to them, and they want to know who
it is. Well Rush Limbaugh has answered - it's the rich liberals who own the
banks and run the government, and of course run the media, and they don't care
about you - they just want to give everything away to illegal immigrants and
gays and communists and so on ... the reaction we should be having to them is
not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean,
we are the ones that ought to be organizing them, not Rush Limbaugh."]


	Palin's tea party raises eyebrows
	By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 1/8/10 5:17 PM EST

Sarah Palin’s plan to deliver the keynote address — for a fee — at next month’s
first-ever National Tea Party Convention is getting renewed attention in light
of her rejection Thursday of an invitation to speak at the annual Conservative
Political Action Conference.

The decision to blow off CPAC — traditionally seen as the year’s must-attend
event for the conservative establishment — in favor of a little-known convention
is prompting some soul-searching among CPAC supporters, and is being interpreted
as a calculated play by the former Alaska governor to cast herself as the
potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate of the high-energy, anti-establishment
tea party movement...

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31284.html


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