“Even more evidence of corruption at the TP Convention – that shady bunch of crooks at Judicial Watch have stepped in as sponsors. Everybody knows that they just a front organisation for the Palin zombies who want to destroy America and proclaim John McCain as Emperor of…..blah blah blah blah….”

Just couldn’t resist combining the narrative to be seen in some of the recent comments about Governor Palin in Hot Air as a grinning Allahpundit stokes the fires around these issues. Such is the feeding frenzy in certain circles even a highly respected corruption fighting organisation like JW could be caught in the crossfire so do not be surprised if my rather satirical take on this (quoted above) is not repeated in all seriousness by some from the wilder shores of politics..

I saw Josh Painter’s message about Judicial Watch stepping in as a sponsor for the Tea Party Convention just after I had read yet another post by Dan Riehl criticising the Convention and Palin’s involvement. To be fair about 50% of the comments were taking him to task for rehashing this, even implying that there was something mildly Sullivanesque about how he and Erickson and Clouthier were gnawing at this bone.

Why not now just wait and see what happens at this Convention and how Palin is received. If the whole thing is a mess and she ends up with egg on her face then those three can have a really good laugh with the CPAC crowd….but somehow they know in their bones that she is more likely to be the star and the story on this whereas CPAC might well be treated as a hobbyists get together.
I wish that the Irish bookmaker who paid up on Brown the day before the election was taking bets on her impact on the TPC and the TP movement in general – would be worth a punt…

Exit question – why is Politico taking such an interest in this? Oh no – surely not….they wouldn’t ever do something for those reasons…..no…no…I refuse to believe they have an agenda…..

 BTW

I know that some have been irritated with Riehl over this but it’s worth pointing out that

1. It’s his blog and he is entitled to say what he likes
2. Unlike certain other bloggers he allows critical respondents and doesn’t ban them
3. On other issues he still stands firmly in her corner