Sarah Palin joins list of potential presidential candidates speaking at NRA meeting in Nashville next month.

Courtesy of The Tennessean:  

Add Sarah Palin to the list of Republicans set to come to Nashville next month for the National Rifle Association's Annual Meeting. 

The former vice presidential candidate has joined the NRA's growing group of confirmed speakers for its Leadership Forum, which will take place on April 10, the first day of the three-day convention at Nashville's Music City Center. 

Palin, the former governor of Alaska who remains a powerful voice among tea party conservatives, joins billionaire businessman Donald Trump as recent additions to the NRA's Nashville lineup. Palin also spoke at last year's NRA convention in Indianapolis. 

Other speakers at this year's Leadership Forum include most of the top Republicans currently weighing presidential runs: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

I don't think there is any doubt that Palin supporters will take one look at that list and immediately convince themselves that she is positioning herself for a run at the GOP nomination in 2016.

Of course we know she is not, but then we are using logic and those people are allergic to logic.

Gee I wonder if she will bring her shiny new Medal of Honor winner along with her to give her a little extra oomph?

By the way crazy eyes must have been checking in with us yesterday and read the comments from all of you calling her out for not posting anything on National Down Syndrome Day. So late last night she attempted to rectify that by doing the least she could do which is to post a link, with no text to accompany it.

Boy isn't she a great advocate for Down Syndrome and everything?

Of course she would do so much more if they would pay her like the NRA is doing to give that speech in Nashville. Don'tcha know?

Teabaggers so mistrustful of organized political parties that they cannot organize. Update!

The first big "teabaggin" convention scheduled for February 4 in Nashville has run into a little hiccup. Well actually a series of hiccups. Okay they have a chronic case of the hiccups!

The first problem is that the organizers of this event do not seem to understand their group's financial situation.

Let me be blunt: charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel and lodging to go to a "National Tea Party Convention" run by a for profit group no one has ever heard of sounds as credible as an email from Nigeria promising me a million bucks if I fork over my bank account number.

Then there is the difficulty of organizing a bunch of people who mistrust, or even fear, established political organizations.

The tea party is far from cohesive. By one count, eight separate organizations make up the movement, and they sometimes compete against each other. Some tea party leaders are uncertain whether this unruly collection of activists can—or should—be organized into a unified force.

"If you get 10 tea party organizers in a room and try to tell them what to do, you're going to alienate nine of them, and the only one you won't alienate is yourself," says Ken Marrero, a conservative activist and blogger. "At its root, the tea party is really people who have had enough and decided to get involved. It's really a grassroots thing. If you are ever successful in creating a single tea party movement, you will have ruined it."

Cunningham agrees: "Our strength is our diversity, with so many people empowered to do so many different things."

"Many of these folks have repudiated party membership," Marrero points out—so why would they want to join a unified organization under the tea party banner? "They're looking for performance, not parties or politicians," he says.

In some ways Sarah Palin is the perfect figurehead for this group. Disjointed, ill-equipped, under educated, a little crazy, how is that NOT a perfect description of Caribou Barbie?

Perhaps Matt Taibbi said it best: Sarah Palin is the Empress-Queen of the screaming-for-screaming’s sake generation.

When you really have nothing to say, all you can do is to keep saying it louder in the hopes of drowning out your critics.

Update: It looks like a key sponsor of the event has pulled out. Oh oh, it looks like the Teabaggers are in hot water now! (Sorry. Couldn't resist.)