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A TEA PARTY ANNIVERSARY: Keli Carender has a pierced nose, performs improv on weekends and lives ?

By Glenn Reynolds

A TEA PARTY ANNIVERSARY:

Keli Carender has a pierced nose, performs improv on weekends and lives here in a neighborhood with more Mexican grocers than coffeehouses. You might mistake her for the kind of young person whose vote powered President Obama to the White House. You probably would not think of her as a Tea Party type. But leaders of the Tea Party movement credit her with being the first. . . .

She, like many Tea Party members, resists the idea of a Tea Party leader ? ?there are a thousand leaders,? she says.

Glenn Beck? ?He can be a Tea Partier, but it?s not like the movement bends to him.?

Sarah Palin? She will have to campaign on Tea Party ideas if she wants Tea Party support, Ms. Carender said, adding, ?And if she were elected, she?d have to govern on those principles or be fired.?

Indeed.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 28, 2010 (boomark / email).