The Tea Party’s Secret Weekly Strategy Memo, Revealed
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By: Dan Amira 8/6/10 at 1:27 PM
Daily Intel has obtained, through highly illegal wiretaps, the weekly strategy memo of the tea party. We reprint it here in full.
Re: Re: Re: Re: SECRET Tea Party Strategy Memo???? ... From: Phillip M. Tea < phillipmtea@reagan.com > ... To: Tea Partiers < TEA-PARTY-LIST@listserv.earthlink.com >
Hello again, it's me, the chairman of the Tea Party, Phillip M. Tea, bringing you this week's strategy memo via every tea partier's favorite form of communication, the chain e-mail. First of all, everyone is continuing to do a good job of not mentioning my existence. If people knew there was an eccentric billionaire llama farmer at the top of this movement, there's no way they would respect us. Better to stick with the decentralized, starfishlike grassroots thing for now.
Now it's time for the moment about 60 percent of you [ http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002539-503544.html ] have been waiting for, the Birthers of the Week. It was too difficult to pick a winner this week, so let's just give accolades all around.
• Jim Scheller, running as an American Congress Party candidate for Joe Sestak’s House seat in Pennsylvania, for making it onto the ballot this week. Sure, the Democrats basically gathered all his signatures for him [ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40630.html ] hoping that his presence in this race will split the conservative vote. And sure, that is exactly what will happen. And instead of having a reliable Republican in the seat, we’ll have a Democrat who will help to further the Obama agenda. But we’re proud of you Jim. You go be the best tool for the Democrats you can be.
Efforts to spread the word about Obama's phony birth story are clearly working, with a full quarter of Americans [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/05/birther-poll-shows-that-m_n_670435.html ] now saying they're unsure whether Obama was born in America. The other 75 percent think birthers are absolutely nuts, but they'll come around.
Meanwhile, I can't stress enough that we could use more fearmongering about the United Nations, people. Our polling tells us that somewhere after the jobs, the economy, government spending, the wars, and terrorism, voters are concerned about the increasingly heavy-handed intrusion of the United Nations in our everyday lives. Colorado gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes did a good job exposing Denver mayor John Hickenlooper's bicycle program [ http://www.denverpost.com/election2010/ci_15673894 ] as a subversive UN directive. But there are a lot of other seemingly innocuous things we can reveal as part of a secret UN agenda. Energy efficiency, picnics, book clubs — anything that seems vaguely communal in nature can work. Be creative.
We know that Sharron Angle doesn't support gay marriage [ http://sharronangle.com/issues ]. We know she doesn't support the right of gay couples to adopt children [ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40756.html ]. But now, thanks to a questionnaire she filled out for the "Government is not God PAC," we also know that the possible next senator from Nevada will not even accept campaign donations that come from companies that have gay-friendly policies.
Angle laid out this position in a candidate questionnaire that she filled out for the Washington-based Government is not God PAC.
In question 35A of the questionnaire, Angle was asked:
Would you refuse PAC money from those who are fundamentally opposed to your views on social issues?
Angle checked the Yes box. The questionnaire then asked:
In reference to question 35A, Intel Corporation supports "equal rights for gays" and offers benefits to "partners" of homosexual employees. Would you refuse funds from this corporate PAC?