Bailout, Chicken Little Republican Gresham Barrett Booed Off Stage
On April 17, 2009, about 4,000 citizens of Greenville, South Carolina met for a tax and deficit protest about the increasingly overbearing federal government.Do you want some evidence the tea party movement is not associated with the Repubican party as many in the MSM contend? Consider Gresham Barrett.
One of the early speakers at the event was Republican politician Gresham Barrett. Barrett, a current Congressman, is now the leading Republican candidate aiming for a run at the office of Governor for South Carolina. His hair was perfect. He looked trim and athletic in his tie and dapper powder blue shirt. When Barrett climbed up on the stage and stood before the crowd to speak, he looked the picture of a rising-star, Republican politician.
However, the crowd remembered what Barrett did when his fellow Republicans George Bush and former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, pushed him. Barrett caved.
Over the objections of many constituants, he reversed his initial opposition to the crap sandwich and voted to pass a $700 Billion TARP bailout of Wall Street. The Obama Administration now delights in citing by way of example Bush's crap sandwich as justification for even more egregious acts of generational theft since Obama's election.
Gresham Barrett's bailout vote, a compromise of his allegedly conservative principles, is what the crowd remembered about him.
Many boos could be heard as Barrett began to speak. But when Barrett claimed at the outset of his remarks,
This crowd was not Republican or Democrat. They were mad at any politician who participated in acts of generational theft. Chicken little Republicans were as unwelcome at Greenville's tea party as Obama himself.
And, Greenville's tea party may just have turned Gresham Barrett's dream of becoming Governor into a nightmare.
The crowd was kinder to the other tea party speakers. The video below shows some of the sights and sounds of the protest.
The video below captures the boos and catcalls aimed at Gresham Barrett. They seemed a lot louder in person.
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2 comments:
Thanks for this video.
It is a perfect microcosm of what is happening. Republican politicians trying to get in front of this parade might just get run over.
This guy is trying to tap into legitimate gripes with Democrats but the crowd isn't buying it.
It just happens too much and this guy is sadly one of the more conservative ones. But he and others should get the message. They either have to fight tooth and nail giving no quarter to this statism or they have to fight us to get re-elected.
Trying to be populists outside the beltway and become insiders when it comes to votes has been done. Republican politicians need to wise up we are onto you!
Too late! Go home!
Franco, thank you for your comment. Since the incident, I have considered further the cause of the booing, and you are exactly correct about Barrett. He had a conservative record, but that TARP vote was bad. Unfortunately, he had to be made into an example. It's too bad he tried to capitalize on the Tea Party movement. Senator Lindsay Graham and Congressman Bob Inglis, who did not speak, were also roundly booed for their bailout votes.
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