Awww! Poor Orly Taitz! Dissed by the Republican Party...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

From today's LA Times:

After candidates complain to organizers, Orly Taitz's speaking engagement is withdrawn. Taitz has been a leading voice in the discredited 'birther' movement.

By Seema Mehta

Several California Republican political candidates, including Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina, were scheduled to share the stage this week with one of the leaders of the "birther" movement that claims President Obama was not born in this country and is thus ineligible for his elected office.

Orly Taitz, an Orange County attorney who has gone to court many times to try to disqualify Obama, was invited to speak Thursday at a Tax Day Tea Party rally in Pleasanton, Calif., that is expected to draw thousands of people. Late Tuesday, organizers said that they had rescinded Taitz's invitation after questions were raised about her presence by candidates who had been contacted by The Times.

Bridget Melson, founder and president of the Pleasanton Tea Party, said the organization had been "getting calls from candidates like crazy."

"It's not worth it," she said. "She's too controversial. This is not what the tea party is about at this point."

Taitz's lawsuits have been thrown out and lambasted by judges and she has been fined $20,000 for filing frivolous lawsuits. But Taitz, who is now running for secretary of state, was nonetheless invited to speak at Thursday's event, which is expected to be among the largest Tax Day events in the state.

Taitz's invitation -- and uninvitation -- are examples of the complications facing Republicans this year as they try to capture the enthusiasm of the tea party movement without getting sucked into its conspiracy-tinged fringes.

More at link:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-taxday14-2010apr14,0,2366118.story

:rofl:

[Cha]

1. The unhinged fringe who cause the military dr

to be headed for a court martial..that kind of fringe?

[4lbs]

2. Maybe the Tea Party found out that Taintz wasn't born in this country!

:D

TEABAGGER BIRTHER: "We don't want foreigners not born in this country!"

OILY TAINTZ: "I wasn't born here. I was born in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic."

TEABAGGER BIRTHER: "Get away from me you Commmie, Socialist, Fascist, Nazi!"

[xultar]

3. Plesanton DUers.

I would love to meet you. I'm on an assignment in Plesanton. I try to make the Faz happy hour @ the Sheraton 4 Points on Hopyard.
PM me. Let's meet.

[Rage Inc.]

4. How do I go on LIVING now?????

:nopity:

[DirkGently]

5. Ride that tiger, GOP

Ride, ride, ride.

:rofl:

[chollybocker]

6. "This is not what the tea party is about at this point."

Right. That's why you never see "Wheres the Kinyan birth certificit at?" signs at any teabagger events. It never happens. :eyes:

[Walk away]

7. Orly Taitz is the Republican party.

The Christian Militia is the Republican party, Teabaggers are the Republican party

[struggle4progress]

8. Well, that does it! I won't be voting Republican this year! What do they stand for?

I mean, back in the Goldwater era, I thought the Republicans stood for dropping thermonuclear bombs all over Russia and China, leaving nothing but smouldering wreckage in the interests of a better world. And Reagan promised to begin bombing in five minutes. But did they do it? Noooo

Then I thought Republicans stood for balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility. But they ran up record deficits again and again

Next they latched onto the morality thing. Aha! I thought Now I know what Republicans stand for! But it seems they were more interested in diaper games and high school pages and airport bathrooms and the Appalachian Trail and bondage-themed strip clubs

Finally they grabbed onto the Obama birth certificate thingy. And finally I thought I really knew what Republicans stand for. But they don't stand for that either :cry: