Last Call

One of the main reasons I'm not worried about 2010 is that the Teabaggers are simply pretending the world before 2008 didn't exist.  They are convinced centrist independent voters will simply forget about 2001-2008 too, that dislike for the Democrats will equate to instant love for the Republicans.

As Steve M. reminds us, that's just crazy talk.

Please note that Sarah Palin -- possibly the next Republican candidate for president -- and Representative Michelle Bachmann will be joined as featured speakers at the First National Tea Party Convention by uber-birther Joseph Farah of WorldNet Daily, who wrote today at WND, "I am recommitting my energies and resources to the search for verifiable truth on this matter of eligibility."

Oh, and for good measure, another of Farah's fellow speakers will be Fox News contributor Angela McGlowan.

Anyone think the selection of Farah as a speaker is going to cause Palin, Bachmann, or McGowan to drop out? Me either.

By all means, let this be a complete freakshow of an event.  I want to see Birthers, racists, and assholes in their full Obama Derangement Syndrome glory, and I want to see it played again and again on all the networks, just so America sees exactly what the alternative to Obama and the Democrats will be in November.

Furthermore, I want these whackos standing shoulder to shoulder with as many Republicans as possible.  I want to see people earnestly asking "Ms. Palin, when you're President, you'll round up all the damn Muslims in this country, right?  You'll put them in camps, right?"  And then I want to see the next guy say "Oh yeah and the illegal Mexicans, too, right?  You'll do that?  For America?"

And I want that on live TV.

We should only be so lucky.