Ed Rendell: the Tea Party can get just a thousand people in Washington

Big Bureaucracy ^ | April 26th, 2010 | Ellie Velinska

[Big Bureaucracy]

“If I can call a rally for stronger laws for puppies I will draw 100 000 people to Washington just like that”

Snap! That was the Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell this morning on FOX accusing the tea party of being not able to draw a crowd bigger than a thousand people in Washington DC.

Besides the fact that his numbers on tea party attendance are wrong it is amazing to witness Rendell who is usually appealing to the folks of all political backgrounds turn into fierce campaign against a grassroots movement to which about 60% of the Americans sympathize.

Seems like Ed Rendell is looking at the devastating polls for his party in the 2010 Governor election in Pennsylvania. State Attorney General Tom Corbett (Republican) earns nearly 50% support again this month in the Rasmussen poll against the Democrat Jack Wagner.

Governor Rendell is a professional campaigner and he knows the taste of winning. So what is his strategy in helping his people in the Keystone State? This time he knows that the only chance the democrats may get is by energizing their demoralized base.... o Governor Rendell (who usually makes much more sense) is bashing the tea party on national TV in hope that the attacked will be too busy in Florida to return the fire.

Not likely! The tea party has too many heads and legs all over the country and will probably respond to Rendell accordingly. The good old Governor Rendell kicked the wrong puppy!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Conservatives, tea partiers, independents and gun owners are by-and-large working people who can’t just drop everything to attend a march or a rally. On the other hand, welfare bums, union thugs, college kids, ACORNs, peacecreeps, illegals and other rent-a-mob types are usually picked up in a bus, driven to the “grassroots” protest, handed a pre-printed sign, issued a t-shirt, fed a meal, given a pack of smokes and a bottle of hooch or a dime bag. Many are on the clock when they protest. Big difference, Ed!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Conservatives, tea partiers, independents and gun owners are by-and-large working people who can’t just drop everything to attend a march or a rally. On the other hand, welfare bums, union thugs, college kids, ACORNs, peacecreeps, illegals and other rent-a-mob types are usually picked up in a bus, driven to the “grassroots” protest, handed a pre-printed sign, issued a t-shirt, fed a meal, given a pack of smokes and a bottle of hooch or a dime bag. Many are on the clock when they protest. Big difference, Ed!