... Tillman believes, much as Adams did, that these local battles are critical, in and of themselves, and also in their ability to impact national politics and policy. The Alliance seeks to be a networking station through which pro-liberty activists can communicate with, learn from and empower one another.ending with the less-than-resounding:
If you're a modern-day Sam Adams, you should check out this new group.One half expects these geezers to blizzard the campuses of America with Phrygian "Liberty caps" (Which Sam Adams' "Sons of Liberty" wore as "Freedom Caps" and were adopted by the admiring rebels of the French Revolution -- but I doubt that the Sam Adams Alliance, for all their necrophiliac enthusiasm for Sam Adams, would know that).
And join the revolution.
Remember Howard Rich's statement, "you can be sure that we'll be back, stronger than before"? (See " Unlimited Terms of Endearment" - Epilogue") :
For 2008, they've already started an astroturf organization in North Dakota -- C-RED. And there's one just started up in the last couple weeks of the election in South Carolina: Coalition Against Unlimited Spending (CAUS) . (They LOVE these dopey acronyms: H.O.P.E. in Arizona, P.I.S.T.O.L in Nevada, S.O.S. in Michigan, Oklahoma, Nebraska, etc.)
That would be January 15th.
A mere 45 days later than promised, the Sam Adams website was rolled out, for CPAC. and that's significant: This "new" group is comprised of old operatives with a long history of saying one thing and doing another. It is inauspicious, one would think, to begin one's website with an untruth. Endings are contained within beginnings, after all, and starting with a lie: A lie in the sense of promising something that could not be, in retrospect, delivered -- another term would be 'hubris' -- a quality that Messrs. O'Keefe and Tillman seem to have in abundance.
But, really, what's important here is that the Sam Adams Alliance looks an awful lot like a sexagenarian's idea of what would seem "hip" and "with it" to "young people." No point in pussyfooting around here: the new Sam Adams Alliance is just plain laughably lame.
Once again, here's perhaps the worst wallpaper ever offered on the internet:
Good lord: what can these aging proto-libertarians be thinking? These photoshopped monstrousities wouldn't have worked back in the 'sixties, let alone in the 21st Century. I suppose, in a sense, it's a busted metaphor, kind of like "Skydivin' Sam's neck would be, if the cheesy mashup hadn't been done by somebody's grade school kid, who actually knows how to run a computer. Had these people any sense of shame, they'd be mortified, too embarrassed to show their faces.
Are they KIDDING me? Does ANYbody not afflicted with liver spots and palsy think that photoshopping ONE lousy Sam Adams head onto two stock "extreme" sports shots is KEWL?
Seriously, in the midst of the whole CPAC thing, the Sam Adams Alliance was notable for passing out the most expensive freebie (a close second was the stuffed chihuahua from PETA KILLS Animals dot com).
And they were notable herein for reprinting their astonishingly lame poster from the wallpaper selection, but I doubt that anyone at CPAC noticed. They grabbed their bobbleheads, and their free pens, and their candy and stuffed them into their TK bags, next to their styrofoam Mitt Romney mitts.
(Hyuck, hyuck. Get it? Mitt mitts! Hoo boy. Maybe he's using the same bunch that came up with the "Extreme Sam" wallpaper. Are these people kidding? Or are they playing to their demographic?)
Well, Sam Adams gave away bobbleheads, and Americans for Limited Government gave away candy -- however creepy that implication might be, considering these septagenarians are trying to attract "youthful activists."
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