Palin's tea party will poison America

"America is ready for another revolution!" shouted Sarah Palin on Saturday night at the so-called Tea Party Convention in Nashville.

With this statement, the former governor of Alaska positioned herself as the symbol of the widely growing movement known as the Tea Party. The fringe group of idiots, who likens itself to the infamous attackers on British tea ships in the 1770s when there is seriously no significant similarity between the two, came out dressed in colonial attire and listened to the wise words of Sarah Barracuda: "To win a war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law."

Palin is a perfect symbol for the Tea Party. Under the banner of pseudo-libertarianism and the Second American Revolution, the Tea Party members believe they are fighting against an imperial British Empire once again, but this time, it's not headed by some whitey from across the Atlantic. His name is Barack Obama the Terrible, second cousin removed of both Hitler and Stalin. He is out to ruin every American family's life, one child at a time.

The Tea Party wants an immediate return to the Constitution because, as we all know, George W. Bush defended our civil liberties beautifully with the Patriot Act and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama, on the other hand, has devalued our Constitution with his Communist ways in less than a year. They hate the stimulus, but not dishing out $549 for tickets to see Palin blabber for an hour. For a group of extremely conservative wing nuts, that's some liberal spending.

I wonder what it was like to attend that convention in Nashville. How would I respond to former Rep. Tom Tancredo exclaiming that Obama was elected because the country "does not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote"? Thankfully, Jim Crow did not run for re-election in his Colorado district in 2008. And chants of "USA! USA!" in response to Palin asking the crowd, "How's that hopey-changey stuff thing workin' out for you?" would have made me more nauseous than Coca-Cola, ipecac-flavored.

Washington is a harsh place with no room for human emotion. Therefore, I am not ashamed for criticizing Sarah Barracuda and her Tea Party minions. Any group that is created off the fear of an African-American in office and creates violent members who bring assault rifles to town-hall meetings should be watched with a vigilant eye at all costs.

No, Palin, the Tea Party is not the "future of politics in America." It is the best example of how faux-populism can poison mainstream America.

You, my friend, can be our antidote.