Sarah Palin gets a cold reception in Madison, WI

Sarah Palin gets a cold reception at an attempted tea party rally in Madison, WI overwhelmed by counter protesters.

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[eschwarzbauer]

Blatantly hateful and violent comments will be removed. Regardless of whether or not I'm on "your" side. As a great tea partier sign shared: "Civility please"

[eschwarzbauer]

"Freedom is the right to shout 'THEATRE' in a crowded fire..." -Abbie Hoffman

[eschwarzbauer]

@TheSFgeek: This event shows the high risk involving holding a somewhat controversial rally in a public place. "Tea-partiers" also showed up at the pro-union rallies to "dump on other people['s] speech" as well... only in much smaller numbers. Also, Kathy Nickolaus's "human error" has occurred several times before, and after independent surveys of her "technique" (which includes storing all information on her personal computer) ended in requests she change her bad habits, she "politely refused".

[eschwarzbauer]

@shellymic: blind partisan rhetoric aside, that remains to be seen, as both candidates have hired lawyers, and accusations of fraud in Waukesha county may prove to be reality as Kathy Nickolaus has a long record of "finding" ballots... You may be right, but you may be wrong. Thanks for watching.

@aeloroth: I understand the hate culture of partisan politics is damaging to everyone. Here's to hoping that due process and non-partisan investigation can unite us with acceptance, and hope...

[eschwarzbauer]

@ aeloroth: There was a very large amount of people there, and I know a concern of many protesters was that footage of the Palin speech would be used deceptively by news media, to portray the event as crowded by tea partiers, and scarcely attended by "filthy liberals". People wanted their presence known. The turnout on the "tea party" end was about 100-200 people while there were thousands of "angry liberals"... and "angry republicans"... and "angry independents"... surrounding the capitol.

[eschwarzbauer]

They are chanting "shame".

[Rockyj2]

@AusPolitico I couldn't listen! Sarah's voice is worst than nails on a chalkboard.

[ideebidee]

poor sarah, she won't be able to fill a tent in a county fair pretty soon!!!!!

[ingysaysrawr123]

We can only hope Scott Walker is inspired by his fellow Tea Party Governor, and resigns.

[Seasonchange1]

I'm so proud of the protesters please never stop! God Bless all of you. Very sad that some prople would believe the GOP , Palin and others, they're going to hurt our country more and more. They can't fool me. Full support to the Union, policemen, firemen and teachers, thank you for your work.

[TheSFgeek]

This is an example of PC, drown out what you don't agree with,use Tyranny and the law to rewrite the 1 st amendment. So you can dump on others people speech

[TheSFgeek]

No Fraud existed, it was human error after being 14 hrs on the job. Huffington posts surraget reported it, because they called the precincts. The entire Brookfield city was not reported to the AP, and state, Those are always preliminary results, night of the election. These are not "found" votes , just misreported

Get your heads out of your 4th point of contact.

[SteveHandlebar]

It's best to drown out those you don't like

[reytrapaet]

She is so stupid it hurts to listen to her and try and follow what she is saying! It is like a Sylvester Stallone movie. You can hear it but you can't understand it!

Thank You Wisconsin, Keep the Faith!

[reytrapaet]

@AusPolitico

Learn something? From who? She may be pretty but she is academically dumber than dirt!

Can I nominate Patrick Star ( from Sponge Bob) for the Tea Party mascot?