Red Meat Fails to Distract Rabid Tea Baggers in South Carolina
This poor idiot made it five minutes in front of this mob, which I would say is the moral equivalent of 15 on one of those broncing bull machines. The participants at this Greenville, South Carolina tea party booed, turned their backs, and one boor yelled “Go home!” every time U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett paused. What had the fellow Republican done to earn such enmity? He voted for his own president’s too little, too late bailout bill last October.
In his surrealistic speech, Barrett tried to throw red meat to the crowd but they wanted a fresh kill instead — him. He better come up with a different approach if he plans to continue his campaign for governor in 2010. The fact that, according to one of his spokespeople, he was ranked as the fourth most conservative member of the House by the National Journal did nothing to improve Barrett’s reception with these drooling mouth-breathers. Man. These tea bag types take no prisoners, even from their own team.
