The TN Tea Party event was obviously motivating and inspiring for the participants in many ways. However, this does not excuse the poor judgment and lack of prior screening of speakers and topics.

The birther issue is a major detriment to all responsible, conservative, forward action. The topic and speaker, Farrah, should not have been there, nor should they be at any responsible conservative event, IMO.

I did not know that McGlowan was preaching gun registry and anti-second amendment speech. This is EXTREMELY inappropriate for an event intended to empower people’s constitutional rights. This definitely does serious damage to her claims to be conservative.

Even though much of the overall event seemed to empower the people who came, I agree with many earlier assessments that Judson Phillip’s planning and screening get failing grades.

…why are we listening to her?

Judson Phillip did not have to screen Angela McGowan. She was already known as a “wplf in sheep’s clothing”. It really brings into question Phillip’s rationality and is one of the reasons I will not subscribe to the Tea Party Movement, though I do subscribe to their platform. Shame on you, Judson. You give the world and especially the main stream media cause to question your smarts.

to be a parasitic fifth columnist !

The Constitution Rules ..OK?

thanks for bringing this to light, streiff.

dig, dig, dig

She appears to ask, “Why should anyone be concerned about the government knowing where all the private firearms are?”

What if the question was asked instead, “Why should the government be concerned about knowing where all the private firearms are?”

In the answer to the last question you’ll find the truth.

that is revealing. She obviously enjoys the microphone a bit too much. We need pols who will shut up and listen a lot more. She is condescending; I immediately thought of Barbara Boxer when she snidely told the caller her name. And lo and behold, here comes the race (war) card!

And the Big Tent Republicans.

We need to stop with the chicken dance and say what it is we stand for.

If they like the result the tent produces they will join us without our having to compromise our principles by accepting people who clearly don’t understand the constitution.

I am of course assuming strict adherence to the constitution would be a core principle. That may not fly with enough people to need more than a pup tent.

But if so I would rather live in the pup tent.

Really, we don’t need more regulation just better enforcement of what we have on the books. More registration isn’t going to even stop any unscrupulous gun shops and dealers from selling anything to anyone. I tried to listen but all I got was a Republican candidate that sounds like the Democrat. No thanks.

Over regulation drives things underground. There is no need to put more Regs on gun shops and owners than what’s there. I think I’ll ask my local gun shop what they think. I’m sure I’ll know the answer anyway.

of a Tea Party Rally. If an actual conversation were held with Tea Party supporters you would find that most of them would hold that
gun registration belongs under the States purview at the MOST.
Besides our never ending 2nd Amendment battle with the Lefties there has been a tremendous increase in the governments collection of personal information on its citizens. Privacy and free speech have changed from being Sacred Rights to becoming Weapons to be used
against our county’s own citizens. Our governments desire for control over our public and private lives should be a clarion call to those who believe in and support Freedom. Liberty, our very Liberty sits on the edge of a cliff always at risk of going over unless we work continuously to protect it. At times it is closer to the edge of that cliff than at others and right now it sits balanced, half way over and barely holding on. We’ve won some skirmishes recently and there are some signs that give us real hope but we can’t ever again be lax and take the protection of our freedom, our liberty for granted.. These Tea Party Rally’s are a product of the citizens of this country telling the elected citizens of Washington D.C. that you have our full attention, we are watching you and we are pissed. You better start taking the Representative part of our Democratic Republic seriously.
As far as the Convention went the Birther aspect was a negative. McGlowen’s participation was a bad decision and not a good match for the event. But as far as the gathering itself, I am really excited to see so many like minded people getting together, networking and supporting each other even if it’s just letting some know that they are not alone in how they feel and that they CAN have an effect.

This woman is ignorant.

She thinks the “government should have the right to know what we have in our homes” and makes no attempt to connect this belief with a constitutional power.

One caller tries to tell her about Class III weapons and how you need a special permit that subjects your premises to inspection and she completely misses the point and jumps to “my daddy taught me to shoot when I was 7″.

After listening to her, the only thing I could conclude is that she holds some “conservative” positions more or less at random and because she does not seem to know her history or the founding principles, all of her positions are subject to change if she can be persuaded that it is a “good idea” or that it will “help people”.

We don’t need another squish like her – Congress is full of them.

I live in MS and I am thoroughly scared now! Guns don’t kill people…people kill people and the gun they choose is only a tool. Do you think criminals consistently file their taxes and that they will even admit to owning a gun? This heiffer is crazy!

She is so naive…if the govt decides to invoke martial law at any time for any reason, they would use that information to round up the guns. She is so out of touch with reality. No one is questioning the registration of the guns, we are against declaring them on our freakin’ taxes?!?!?! She is a moron…

The TN “convention” was neither approved nor attended by many 10′s of 1000s or even 100s of 1000s of those who see themselves as part of the tea parties.

The tea party agenda for 2010 is •

Final Voting on Contract from America Begins: February 18, 2010
• Recharge the Movement Protests: February 27, 2010
• Nationwide Screenings of Tea Party Movie: February 27, 2010
• Tea Party Local Coordinator Training – How to Start a Tea Party
• Tax Day Tea Parties: April 15, 2010
• Rollout of Final Contract from America: April 15, 2010
• Constitutional Educational Training, Founding Principles Bus Tour
• Activist Educational Training
• Independence Day Events: July 2 – July 4, 2010
• AUGUST HEAT – Congressional Town Hall Meetings
• 912 March on DC: September 12, 2010
• Get Out the Vote and Voter Education: October – November, 2010
• ELECTION DAY, Tuesday, November 2, 2010
• Year-Round grassroots lobbying when legislation arises

I’ve never heard of Angela Whoever and she can run for whatever and maybe get support from some tea parties, but she is not per se representative of nor sponsored by the tea parties.

She certainly is the typical public administration graduate.

Her thought process on the radio show in regard to gun registration is so convoluted; I’ve heard better reasoned political discourse from children.

The very fact that she responds to caller’s concerns with “why not” and then goes on about government “sending a message” shows her true political philosophy-statist. Am I supposed to lay low for every proposed law that doesn’t quite give her the slightest visceral pause?

She should’ve been challenged on the strawman choice between anarchy and abridgment of the second amendment. Her insistence on being called by her first name shows a nasty streak of narcissism and a lack of understanding as to how a caller might have tuned in to the show after her identity was last provided.

Should she ever come on the national stage; I’ll never vote or support her, I’m not sure what she could do to convince me she had seen the error of her ways.

Some stuff is non-negotiable with me-one of those things is the second amendment.

The new Tea Party movement seems unwelcomed by the ‘Old Guard’, and I’m going to include CPAC in my ‘Old Guard’ term since it has apparently been around since “1973” (I’ll get back to that “1973” date in a moment).

Personally, I find Angela McGlowan and the various Tea Party groups quite refreshing, and question the motives of anyone attacking them. I understand why the Left – and its MSM – attacks the movement, potential candidates and candidates, but am often left wondering why the ‘Old Guard’ does. This YouTube interview of Angela McGlowan is dated 8-5-09, and she clearly didn’t know much about the topic, and lacked the ‘Old Guard’ talking points, but so what. Besides, arguing over another “proposed legislation” (or another version of the Blair Holt) distracts from bigger issues right now, IMO.

I lost my gun ownership rights back in 1975 (two years after CPAC’s “1973” start date) due to felony convictions. All my rights – other than the “specific authority to possess or own a firearm” – were restored in 1989 (Certificate of Restoration of Civil Rights). Since advocates of firearm possession and ownership haven’t done much for me in 35 years, I’ll lump them in with the ‘Old Guard,’ and their issues are way down on my list…waaaaaay down! 35 years after my felony convictions, I’m stuck with a black powder muzzleloading Buckhunter Pro .50 cal pistol for protection, even though that protection is more useful for its looks than its ability to fire in self-defense.

What has the ‘Old Guard’ actually done over the past 37 years, besides helping the country move further to the left?! The ‘Old Guard’ gave us John McCain as its Presidential candidate in 2008! I want fresh faces like Sarah Palin and Angela McGlowan, and gave up on Joe Farah several years ago; however, even though I dislike Joe Farah I saw nothing wrong with Tea Party Nation allowing him to speak…besides, Andrew Breibart did a great job of countering him.

I also consider Rush Limbaugh as a member of the ‘Old Guard.’ However, he is wise enough to recognize the need for fresh faces and the new Tea Party movement. He did blow it recently – which is rare for Rush – by putting Sarah Palin in a tough spot. Instead of just following Sarah’s lead on calling for Rahm Emanuel’s head, Rush got carried away and pushed it a tad too far. I’m sure Rush regrets blowing it like that…he certainly recognizes Sarah’s appeal (and power), and has been quite supportive of her. The incident seemed to suggest that the ‘Old Guard’ needs to step back more often, and allow a fresh face to take the reins, unless they are willing to take on the wrath of ‘Fresh Face’ supporters…so to speak.

Anyway, that my 2-cents, along with a lot of babbling expressing it.

I’ve thought about it — and the only conclusion I can come up with is that she’s pro-gun registration, pro-government “right to know” because of some previous run-ins — then and now — with white supremacists and other aggressive people.

She’s an African-American woman and comes from a divisiive an contentious area.

I would understand her feeling she needed the “right” (through, say, the government’s “gun database”) to know how many guns the crazy white supremace-y looking guy living across her house has.

Maybe when she means “government,” she means “me.” Wouldn’t that be in line with her conservative “government of the people, by the people, etc.”?

Just a suggestion.

.. I mean, she can’t offer an explanation of this anti-gun stance.

More than likely, it’s personal because of something she experienced (or is experiencing).

For the record, I don’t support her views, nor am I racist.

My response to the kook across the street would be to buy a bigger gun, buy more bullets and get in my gun-range practice — not require that every citizen register.

Someone with you on nine out of ten issues is your ally, not your enemy. If you demand 10 out of 10, you won’t have many allies and the result will be that you will lose on 10 out of 10 issues.

Where is she on abortion? On spending? On taxes? On foreign policy? On the power of labor unions, especially public-sector unions? On the homosexual agenda? On environmental legislation?

Scott Brown will probably be with movement conservatives on 60-70% of key roll-call votes. He will not be a movement conservative himself or be with them 90-100% of the time. Is there even one of you who thinks it isn’t better that he was elected than that Martha Coakley, who would have agreed with us 0% of the time as Ted Kennedy did, be senator?

I’ve heard more reasoned and intelligent political commentary from wasted sorority girls. Angela McGlowan is insulting, foolish, and crass; even if she were Edmund Burke reincarnated on the other issues, and even if the gun issue wasn’t an issue, I don’t know why one would want to listen to someone this ignorant and irritating speaking from a national platform.

The NTPC just keeps getting better and better.

what I have just heard from this Angela person. What mental confusion and ignorance. And she spoke at the tea party convention? (I can believe the Fox News part. Isn’t Marc Lamont Hill still O’Reilly’s buddy?) Whoever this Judson character is he needs a background check. Angela sounds like she left sold her brains? for campaign funds. Pitiful stuff. I guess we must remember that Judson does not represent all the tea party groups, and I doubt that most of his participants were aware of Angela’s intellectual and political shortcomings. They all came for a celebration and to see Sarah Palin.

This is why she’s for gun registration.

Listened closely to this again. The CRUX begins at 7:30.

Skip all this:

[MCGLOWAN: I believe that you should be able to have weapons. I belive in the 2nd Amendment. I believe that you should be able to protect yourself]

and continue to this:

MCGLOWAN: But when you have crazies out there that are stockpiling guns because they believe that we are gonna have SOME TYPE OF RACE WAR, I think that that’s a problem.

HOST: What would be the reason that the government would want to know?

McGLOWAN: .. You’ve had conservative talk show radio [shows] where I’ve heard .. people who want to overthrow the government, people who don’t like the fact THAT WE HAVE A BLACK PRESIDENT.. they believe that there’s going to be a BIG RACE WAR.”

The truth always comes out.

Call her what she is: racist.

She thinks I’m racist intentions because I might have 35 pistols in the house, 16 semi automatics, 7 ARs and 10,000 rounds of ammo.

And I must therefore dislike my president because he’s black.

.. which I don’t, by the way. Just illustrating a point.

She sure works on a hell of a lot of assumptions about people who own guns.

But if this is the black woman who debates on the conservative side of Fox News, WTF. Did someone threaten to take away her black card, hence couldn’t get a contract unless she showed one dopey liberal view. The government needs to know who owns the guns really.., and this was said at a TEA Party convention. What the hell is this chick thinking.

…is going to come down and Bring Back Slavery.

It’s a deeply Paranoid fear, but it’s there.

But you don’t compromise on the 2nd Amendment to accomodate someone’s fears.

What a total phony. Just another rude, big mouthed black chick that thinks she knows something when in reality she is nothing more than impressed with herself. She reminds me of the boring and insecure Barbara Boxer when she berated a member of our Armed Forces for calling her ma’am instead of Senator.
Don’t be fooled, Angela McGowan is a political 2nd cousin to BO and is no Conservative.

Thanks for the heads up. We can certainly cross that one off any lists for support. She’s a gun grabber and doesn’t even seem to be aware of it.