Tea Party Groups Make Harry Reid Target No. 1

[UpInArms]

Source: New York Times

LAS VEGAS — The television cameras went 60 miles south, to where Sarah Palin kicked off the “Showdown in Searchlight.”

But come the midterm elections, what may be more significant is what is happening here, in a dark condominium where the Home Depot tags are still on the lawn chairs that double as indoor seating for guests.

The blinds drawn against the desert sun, this is the new burrow of Eric Odom, a chief organizer of the first nationwide Tea Parties last year. Mr. Odom moved here a few weeks ago with his fiancée and a blogger sidekick to mobilize the state’s Tea Party groups for the midterms. By training activists in get-out-the-vote tactics like the “voter bombs” that helped Scott Brown become the new Republican senator from Massachusetts, they are hoping to unseat Nevada’s senior senator and the Democratic leader, Harry Reid.

In a matter of weeks, this state has become ground zero for Tea Party members, who understand that as a symbol of the movement’s power, you cannot get much bigger than beating the Senate’s top Democrat.

The Tea Party Express kicked off its third cross-country bus tour last month in tiny Searchlight, Mr. Reid’s hometown. The group behind it, Our Country Deserves Better, which spent $350,000 in the last weeks of Mr. Brown’s campaign to elect him, has been steadily spending against Mr. Reid for a year. And Tea Party Nation, which sponsored the first Tea Party national convention in Nashville in February, plans to hold its second convention here in July.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/us/politics/05nevada.html

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Teajadists or tools for fools :shrug:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Some Teabaggers are paid to appear. Renta-a-crowd

[USA_1]

2. And What Are Dems Going to do About It?

Sit by and allow another Swift Boat campaign or will they stand up and fight??

[superconnected]

7. They're dividing the republican party.

It's not like the swift boaters. These ones turned on their own party - the Republican party. We want the split in the republican party and the news about their willing to result to terrorism that accompanies these toothless gun-toting-pipe-bomb-makers. I doubt the repukes will join them to try to beat Harry Reid when these tea baggers want to knock out republican candidates too that aren't extreme enough for them.

Really, the republican party has been distancing itself from these crazies. This isn't enough to bring them together. They know the tea baggers are a liability to be around, no matter what dem they try to unseat.

[onehandle]

3. Hey, teabaggers! You know what happens if Reid loses?

Nothing. We will still control the Senate and you will still be living with the help of Socialism.

[Jennicut]

4. I wonder if they realize that Reid is not most Dems favorite politician either?

If Reid loses we will be down one more seat in the Senate but we will get a better majority leader. Durbin or even Schumer at least have more spine.
That is, if we do hold onto the Senate. I still think we will.

[rpannier]

5. The funniest part of the article is this

“If we had all informed voters..."
That pretty much sums up his group

I do also enjoy that the leader of their grassroots movement moved in from Chicago

[superconnected]

6. Tea Party - nationally known for making pipebombs and plotting to kill the police to incite disorder

Really, who cares what they do anymore, other than making sure the worst of them end up in prison for terrorism. It looks to me like the republican party is trying to distance themselves from the tea baggers - and Palin.