Remember that hit piece on the Tea Party in The New Yorker a few months ago? The whole thing basically said that the billionaire Koch brothers are funding the Tea Party movement. I’m still waiting for my check, by the way.

Lefty liberals know they can’t ignore us crazy conservatives, so they do their best to discredit us. Rachel Maddow calls us tea-baggers. Bill Clinton likens us to domestic terrorists. The NAACP calls us a hate group (which is interesting coming from a group that supposedly fights for equality). President Obama warns of the darker aspects of the Tea Party — and in Rolling Stone magazine, no less!

Liberals love to mock us and positively giggle with excitement over coming up with such eloquent insults as “Mashed up bag of meat with lipstick.” So clever! They insult us in an attempt to convince themselves and all 27 MSNBC viewers that we’re a radical fringe group funded by Wall Street Republicans. Because all those rich New Yorkers with houses in the Hamptons are Republicans (insert eye roll here).

Nancy Pelosi assumes we’re Astroturf because she doesn’t know anything different. In the liberal world,protesters are paid to show up to rallies. Their hearts are not even in it enough to clean up after themselves. Democrats assume that Tea Party candidates like Marco Rubio, Sharron Angle, Joe Miller, and even Christine O’Donnell are funded by rich Republican interest groups (which is really funny considering that those four won their primaries despite the GOP establishment backing their opponents) because they win their races with big union money.

The left cannot imagine a world where real live human beings care enough about their country and their future to come together of their own accord to make their voices heard. That we’re coming together to financially support the candidates we want representing us. SEIU or UAW does not back our candidates; we back our candidates.

From CBS News:

Typically, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Senate candidates get no more than 20 percent of their funds from small donors. But the latest numbers available from the Federal Elections Commission for some Tea Party favorites show much higher stats.

Ed Morrissey sums it up nicely over at HotAir.com:

This appears to negate the notion that the Tea Party is a corporate-driven movement. This shows that the Tea Party is a true grassroots movement, one with a significant amount of power.

They want to pretend that we don’t exist, and they can go on living their elitist little lives where they tell us what to do and what to eat and where to go to school and how much water we can have. They have no idea that we’re the majority, and in two weeks we’re taking the first step to restoring honor, freedom, and independence.

Happy Election Day. It’s going to be a good one.

Cross Posted at The Stir

In less than two days, I’ll be speaking at a Tax Day Tea Party in Southern California. I haven’t publicly spoken to a live audience since my high school graduation. Ten years ago. Ok, maybe on my wedding day, but really, I was nervous for other reasons that day (wink, wink).

So now I’m nervous. I’m downright skeered.

Or at least I was until I started reading about the Tea Party Crashers-a group of people attempting to infiltrate tea party rallies in order to make us look stupid. News flash: If tea party rallies are stupid groups of racist idiots, lefty liberals don’t need to show up and pretend to be what they claim we are in the first place. They’d just need to bring a video camera, not crash the tea parties.

In fact, if someone has video footage of Representative John Lewis being called a “n***r” as he made his way into a meeting on health care during the push for the final vote, Andrew Breitbart will write you a check for 100 big ones. 100 big Ks, that is. Yup. $100,000 is all yours, and all you have to do is come up with some footage of John Lewis being called a derogatory name by a tea party protestor, as Lewis claims happened fifteen times.

So weird about the lack of evidence, witnesses, or any shred of viability.

So why does the Crasher story make me less nervous? Because now I’m more ticked at these people trying to scare me into silence. I’m done being quiet. I have a right to my voice, and I’m not afraid to use it (not afraid, but still slightly nervous). If people don’t like what I have to say… well then it’s their right not to listen. Not to call me a homophobic racist or put words into my fellow protester’s mouths.

Not cool, people. Not cool.

If you’re in Orange County this Thursday, please come by and say hi; I’d love to meet you. And please try not to stare at my shaky hands or sweaty armpits.

Thanks a bazillion!