February 6, 2010 Tea Party Turns Nasty: ‘It’s Our Country – Let’s Take It Back’ Sarah Palin is due to address the Tea Party Convention in Nashville tonight Tim Reid in Nashville They will proudly boast of how they have galvanised ordinary Americans against runaway government spending, but a dark underbelly of xenophobia has been exposed at the first national gathering of the Tea Party movement. Here in the vast Gaylord resort in Nashville, where 600 members of the conservative grassroots phenomenon that exploded in revolt against President Obama’s economic policies have gathered, it would be advisable not to wear...