TEA PARTY EXPRESS--FLORIDA: "PANAMA CITY, PENSACOLA" EDITION

The TPX crew had a late morning call before boarding the bus to their next rally stop in Panama City--Noon. Tour embed Andrea Shea King called in to say they had arrived and how beautiful it is. Andrea is working at getting a good pic of the scene back to me before hitting the road for their final stop of the tour--Pensacola--5 PM.

There's much talk of Tuesday's primary vote. Speculation abounds from Newt taking Florida by a few votes over Romney to Romney crushing Newt to the point of the former Speaker ending his bid for the White House. We'll have to wait until late Tuesday evening to find out. Or you could tune in and listen to Karl Rove and his magic white board to see what they think. Me... I'll just wait until late Tuesday for the final results.

In the meantime, TPX Florida will do what it can to make sure Obama is no longer in the White House come Jan '13. Oh, btw, Newt received another endorsement over the weekend. Andrea reports.

Here's a roundup of what happened to the TPX bus over the w/e. Andrea put together a great slide show of the setback at The Radio Patriot.

Below: usually when the TPX bus arrives at a rally, there's always a news crew wanting an interview with someone embedded with the tour. Below is Sal Russo, Chief Strategist for Tea Party Express, being interviewed. (Photo by Andrea Shea King)

TEA PARTY EXPRESS--"FLORIDA EDITION" Andrea Shea King hits the road... again.

Never a moment's rest for patriots like Andrea Shea King.

After coming off a trip to Las Vegas last week for strategy meetings with the Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama, The Tea Party Express calls and says, "pack your bags!"

And pack her bags, she did. This morning Andrea's headed north from her home on the Space Coast to meet with other TPX team members so they can organize and prepare for a short but important Florida TPX Tour.

When it comes to presidential races, it doesn't get more important than Florida. And The Tea Party Express plans to be in the middle of the process right up to the very end.

This TPX Florida Tour begins tomorrow:

Complete TPX Florida Tour schedule. Andrea has some notes at her site, The Radio Patriot.

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KARL ROVE, ANDREA SHEA KING & THE POLITICAL WITCH'S BREW

This is not the first time Karl Rove has found himself on the spot. He expects to be put on the spot by the left media and their favorite politicians, not by conservatives. Real conservatives.

Rove now finds himself in the soup with real conservatives because of his obvious attacks on Tea Party candidates who have defeated establishment republicans in the primaries. Rove has shown that he is not an objective observer of these races--he's an establishment republican. And it's open season on all things establishment.

As hard as Rove tries to be otherwise, he comes off as the republican version of James Carville but without the constant foaming at the mouth. If Rove was an objective analyst, he would be focusing his analysis on Mike Castle, Murkowski and Charlie Crist for not sucking it up and supporting the winner of their respective primaries. Instead, Rove continually attacks the winners when he should be moving against the losers for not falling in line with their party hierarchy and using their significant resources in defeating the dems.

Rove loves to predict defeats in Delaware, Alaska and Florida, placing the blame on the winners of those primary races. (Well, maybe not so much Florida.) Instead, Rove should be placing blame on the losers who have somehow decided that going rogue is the most effective strategy. And Crist, Castle and Murkowski are NOT rogue politicians in the least--they are machine politicians and always do what it takes to help the primary winners in defeating their dem opponents, or at least they're supposed to. His criticisms should be targeted at them, not O'Donnell, Miller and Rubio. And if Rove did that, he'd be forced to look squarely into the eyes of the RNC and Michael Steele for allowing this to happen and take them to task for it.

Sometimes it's more telling what a politician, the RNC, or a Karl Rove doesn't say or do. Rove is clearly in the establishment camp on these races, especially the Delaware race. In my opinion, Rove has more at stake than O'Donnell does; his reputation and career are on the line, credibility is up for grabs as well. And I'm not sure if he can change course at this late date to save his reputation. In my case, he doesn't. If O'Donnell loses in Delaware, I think Rove loses bigger. If she wins, Rove loses again. The establishment--on both sides--has much to lose in Washington DC, and it seems Rove is willing to do what it takes to allow this to happen. Rove is one of the best tools for recruitment into the Tea Party movement, especially the powerful Tea Party Express with its team of expert political strategists.

Andrea Shea King adds a lot to the cauldron--the witch's brew as it were--as she points out her experiences from witchcraft's ground zero. Others, I'm confident, will join in against Rove as we near the November elections. FNC has some skin in the game as well, so it will be interesting to see how this situation develops as we move closer to a November conclusion. I think Rove will be the loser, and in a big way, no matter the outcome.

From Andrea Shea King's THE RADIO PATRIOT:

KARL ROVE: BEWITCHED, BOTHERED & BEWILDERED

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A LOOK AT SHUTTLE DISCOVERY STS-131 YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER SEEN

Preparing for a shuttle launch takes 6 weeks. But through the use of time-lapse video, you can watch as STS-131--Discovery--is prepped for launch, beginning with hangar assembly and ending with a Florida landing... in just under 4 minutes. (Tip of the hat to Joe Chez)

GO FOR LAUNCH!! STS-131

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