Scott, Sarah, and the Boston Tea Party

I, for one, couldn't care less about anything Scott Brown does or doesn't do. He's about as interesting to me as a toenail. I'm glad he won. Beyond that, eh. But some people are a little upset that he's not going to the Boston Tea Party.

From the Boston Herald:
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Boston’s right-wing radio helped propel U.S. Sen. Scott Brown into office, but some of his devoted on-air loyalists are ripping him for turning his back on tomorrow’s Tea Party rally starring Sarah Palin.

“Scott Brown belongs there,” said WTKK-FM (96.9) midday host Michael Graham, one of the featured speakers at the Boston Common event. “The most important thing that’s happening in America right now is this big fight between Team Government vs. Team the People....”

Graham, an op-ed Herald columnist, said the Wrentham Republican makes a great point when he says he has a job to do in the U.S. Senate and committee hearings but said “this is where the fight is.”

“It would have been very difficult for Sen. Brown to win without the energy and the self-organization that the people called the Tea Party did for him,” Graham said.

Yesterday, Brown called into Graham’s radio show after hearing the host criticize his snub. “The members of the Tea Party and the constituents in Massachusetts sent me down there to do a job and that’s what I’m doing,” Brown said.

Jeff Katz, the morning-drive host on the newly launched conservative station WXKS-AM (1200), said there’s going to be a lot of people “scratching their heads wondering where Scott Brown is.”

Katz said he plans to attend the rally and Brown should, too. “It’s easy enough to hop on a plane,” Katz said. “Realistically, these are the people that not only voted for him, but went out and worked really hard to elect him.”

Not every radio yakker bashed Brown’s decision to skip the 10 a.m. rally. WRKO-AM (680) gabster Todd Feinburg, who is also scheduled to speak tomorrow, said he wouldn’t attend if he were Brown.

“This is a grassroots movement and there’s a lot of unpredictability there,” Feinburg said. “If anything gets said or happens that’s not carefully crafted politically - whoever’s face is there will get linked up to it.”

Katz called Palin courageous for coming to Massachusetts - the bluest state in the country.

“I like Sarah. It’s pretty courageous and gutsy of her,” Katz said. “She’s certainly coming into the proverbial belly of the beast.”

A Few Thoughts

Howdy. I know I haven't been posting here as often as I usually do. I'm kind of busy with a couple other projects, but I hope to have them done with soon so I can get back into the swing of things. Here's some complete randomness...

So I hear that Congress may have cut themselves off from their federal health program before the health insurance exchanges that they're supposed to go buy insurance from are up and running. Bwahahahahahahahaha! Poetic justice. I guess Nancy knows what's in the bill now.

Will they actually drop their insurance? Don't hold your breath. This is Congress. They don't have to follow the rules like the rest of us.

And orange paint with glitter for a baby boy's room. Seriously? Ew. (If you don't know what that means, don't sweat it.)

I feel bad for Tammy Bruce. She was invited to the Boston Tea Party, but couldn't go because of a prior committment.

Tammy and Sarah, ships passing and passing and passing and passing in the night...

What are you willing to bet that the Lefties of today were the Tories of yesterday?

North Korea doesn't like Obama's nuclear program because he doesn't promise not to nuke them. They're using that as an excuse to build their own nukes. Of course, the North Koreans would use a cold dinner as an excuse to build more nukes.

Obama's going around bowing to all the dictators and snubbing all of our allies. Sometimes I get the feeling that with us palling around with the bad guys, the US is on the fast track to becoming one of the bad guys. Doesn't Obama seem more at ease with the Russians than the Israelis?

And why didn't we do anything to help the Iranian Revolution oust Imadinnerjacket last year? Golden opportunity gone. Why? So we can play footsie with a dictator to the chagrin of the Iranian freedom fighters.

Great. Just what I always wanted America to be. A cowardly nation, more interested in "peace" than freedom as it begs the bullies of the world to play nice.

RobRoy Meets Sarah Palin

RobRoy shared his meeting with Sarah Palin on a Free Republic comment thread. The following are his comments and his replies to some others:
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My wife and I met Sarah the night before last. The three of us had a great discussion of life, kids, politics, etc. for a little under 45 minutes.

She is so personable that almost instantly I felt like I was talking to an old friend. And it just got better from there.

It was so weird. I saw my wife standing in the doorway to a medium sized conference room and she said, “would you like to meet Sarah Palin? I walked through the doorway and there she was! She got up and introduced herself as we shook hands and we just started talking about stuff. In the conversation she got a text from Sean Hannity and we were cracking up about it.

What was weird is, and I cannot emphasize this enough, it was like starting a conversation with someone while you wait in line for a movie or something, and the give and take just went on and on and got more and more interesting, and then you exchange info as the movie doors open.

She mentioned a lot of stuff about the campaign that was fascinating, but there is no way I would share it. Not that it is “secret stuff”, but it is stuff that, if they want the general public to know, they’ll share publicly.

>>She’s just as genuine and sweet in person as we think she is, isn’t she?<<

More so. Seriously. I swear that we could have gone home and she and Mrs. Robroy could have baked an incredible salmon dinner (while I tossed the salad) while we all talked about international politics and our country’s internal problems and solutions - and grandkids.

I am not trying to get into details, but I’ve been around a lot of famous people and there are only two others that I could call that sincerely friendly. Some are friendly in a “let’s be nice and sound ‘interested’ to the little people” sort of way. She was simply gregarious. She asked the typical questions, but also answered questions.

At one point I had a senior moment and lost track of what I was talking about. She backtracked the conversation to put me back on track. That one thing was very telling. All I am really trying to say is, she seems genuinely nice and sincere, with not a hint of saccharin.

Even if she were a “nobody”, she exudes a quality that would cause you to think she would still be a great friend, and someone you could trust on a personal level.

>>Hey Rob, I hope you told her that she’s got a very strong, very dedicated following on this forum and that we’re going to the mat for her.<<

Interesting you brought that up. That is exactly what I told her. I also told her that I did not care whether or not she ran for President in 2012 because she has made it clear that she can make a difference in or out of office. I also mentioned that being in office could actually bind her a bit. She had a lot of responses to those remarks, all of which I enjoyed a great deal, but that is as far as I comfortably can go discussing her side of the conversation, if you get my drift.

Mrs. Robroy and I both really liked her. One thing she said that I feel I can say: She appreciated and strongly encouraged the activity, regarding those of us on the internet. The internet is the new “water cooler” (my words).

>>A leader<<

Exactly. She has the qualities. It is quite clear when you meet her.

>>Okay, that part about not caring if she ran for Pres. or not... Arrrrrgggggghhhhhhh! Care! Care!<<

I used it as a conversation starter. ;) I really wish I could share her response. I will say I loved her general thought process on the issue. Loved it! Mrs. Robroy and I have been married 12 years. I’m anxious to see if anything changes if the honeymoon phase ever ends. She is the most incredible woman I have ever had the pleasure to meet. No offense to Sarah. She’s nice too. :)
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Just one thing, dude, now I'm curious. Now I really want to know all of that "secret" stuff. Ugh! ;)

SNL

Tina Fey was on SNL last night.

My thoughts?

Well, to be honest I thought it was kinda funny. But not "rolling in the aisles" funny. More like, "light chuckle" funny.

The only parts I didn't really care for were the Bristol shots, but they weren't nearly as bad as some I've seen. And Bristol has chosen to put herself out there. That's not an excuse to be downright nasty, but I didn't think the jokes were nasty. I cringed for a second, but I wasn't left with a seething anger.

What I don't understand is why some Palin people are critizing it. Okay, yeah, it's fun to take potshots at Tina Fey because, well, among other things she cannot pull off that leather jacket, but I for one am just thankful for a comedy routine that was halfway human.

I appreciate the opinion of folks like Hillbuzz:

This all irks us because of how nice the Palins have always been towards Fey. When the Governor graciously appeared on the show few realize remains on the air, Palin met Fey and was very kind to her.

It was Fey’s birthday (60th, we think), and she was complaining about having a baby and not being able to hit the town and get sloppy drunk and wake up in cabs with strangers as she’s wont to do on a Saturday night after the show, so Palin volunteered young Willow to babysit Fey’s child for her — because the Governor knew that in that scenario, at least the little tyke would be in good responsible hands, for at least one evening that week.

Fey made fun of this on talk shows later.

“Can you believe that? She just volunteered her daughter to babysit, Willow or whoever, and she said she would love to do it. Who are these people? Where’s my scotch?”.

Of course Willow would have been thrilled to babysit. Piper would have helped. Lil’ Trig would have kept baby Fey company and been a play pal. If Track was home from the Army, he would have cleaned out Fey’s gutters and helped her put up storm windows. Bristol would have probably cooked a half dozen casseroles and froze them in Fey’s kitchen so that her family would have good, nutritious food to eat for at least a week or two while Fey continued to be herself and got up to whatever it is she does with her time when the Palins aren’t around to assist her.

So, continue to make fun of the most decent American family we’ve seen in a while, Lefties.

I'm pretty sure it was Bristol that was volunteered to do the babysitting, but oh, well.

It could irk me too, but I guess I'm picking my battles. I'll let this one slide.

The Governor is a public figure. As such, she is comedic fair game. I have no problem with the comedy so long as it stays within the bounds of simple human decency. And I think that the Governor would concur. You can poke fun without suggesting that you want to push Sarah Palin down the stairs, and I thought we saw that last night.

The most legitimate gripe is probably the comedic double standard. Come on, can you imagine if Palin had said "corpseman"?

The jokes were not as biting as they could have been, but I'm not complaining! That's good news, isn't it?

So yeah, I could launch into a tirade about how the jokes were kind of stale, etc... But why? I'm just thankful SNL didn't wish Palin dead. Kinda sad that it's come to that...

Oh, and, I gotta say, I thought the Michael Steele shot was funny.

Zo: Obama is Giving America AIDS

Another great rant from Zo: