People need to understand just what these tea-baggers really are

[Hugabear]

I get it. The "Tea Party" is all the rage now, at least if you listen to the media. To hear the media pundits put it, the "Tea Party" represents a new third-party, a collection of 'moderate' Republicans and Democrats.

Except it ain't so. Remember, these are the same people who still cling to the notion that Obama is not a "natural born US citizen", who continue to spread the Kenya bullshit. How quickly the mainstream media forgets about the "screamers" who showed up at town hall meetings last year, whose only goal was to shout down and intimidate their opposition. How quickly people forget that these are the people who gathered in small crowds around the country, many of whom toted around incredibly racist signs. Even now, the media won't tell you that the "Tea Party" is itself in incredible disarray, as various factions fight over which group is the 'real' Tea Party. Here in Orlando, you have two different "Tea Party" groups fighting over a website, even going to court to decide who is allowed to use the term "Tea Party".

This is not a true grass-roots movement. This is astro-turf, an organization put together by conservative special interest groups. These are people who get their talking points straight from Glenn Beck. These people are not fit to run a Homeowners Association, let alone any elected office.

Here are your tea-baggers:

[Lifelong Protester]

1. these folks, to me, just look like raging idiots

could even one of them tell you why Tea is even connected to the word Party?

[lob1]

4. It took the teabaggers 6 months to figure out why everyone was

snickering at their name.

[Lifelong Protester]

20. true, true

:rofl: :rofl:

[Bitwit1234]

23. Don't believe me but I still say they are upgraded KKK members

they believe and practice the same thing, except they don't, as of yet, kill people, who won't believe what they do. But they say they are against abortion....look at the very first sign...abort Obama. What does that tell you. What they believe in is what, at that time and moment, serves their purpose.

[aSpeckofDust]

2. "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers.

These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."

So fitting, and so depressing at the same time.

[d_b]

3. same right-wing dipshits

different umbrella.

nothing more.

[greatscott15]

6. Keep whistling.....

That's was the British thought 200 years ago.

Folks whether we like it or not, there is a massive rage out there right now against the Dems and Obama. Mass is a pretty upscale and highly educated state, so trash them at our peril.

Obama better wake up and try a new approach, or he will get NOTHING accomplished. And may end up being a one termer.

[d_b]

7. yea we're on the cusp of a revolution with these dipshits

fuck outta here, toolbagger.

[Hugabear]

8. I don't believe for one minute that Brown's win was soley because of the "Tea Party" movement

They may have played a small part of it, but everything I've read and heard suggested that Coakley ran about as shitty of a campaign as was possible. She took the election for granted, and didn't really start campaigning in earnest until it was too late. Even then, she made some gaffes that hurt her. So to say that it was all because of the tea-baggers is rather simplistic.

[alfredo]

14. That anger is being stoked by people who are paid millions to to do just that.

Much of the anger is over things that do not exist. Some are pissing mad over getting no SS COLA. The right wing is spreading a lie that congress took it from them and then raised medicare rates for seniors. Both are lies.

[jmodden]

18. Won't happen

as long as Palin is the spokesmoron.

[paulflorez]

5. They may be idiots...

They may be idiots, but they are out there protesting, having their voices heard.

Went I went to the town halls to support HCR, there were almost twice as many people there against it.

I know more people supported it, but it seems like those who supported it couldn't bother to make it out.

Where is OUR movement? One to fight the Anarcho-Capitalist society we seem to be hurdling towards???

[Grand Taurean]

9. The left thinks this is funny. I don't!

I see these tea parties as a serious threat.
These people are reactionaries who want to return to a time where their own kind was in charge.
They hate Obama because he is black
They hate Hillary for she is a woman.
They hate immigrants, even though they are the product of immigration.
They believe that the above groups are conspiring against them even though it is the corporate world
that has worked to undermine them.

Most important: the teabaggers have been brainwashed by right wing hate radio.
They are blind, militant, and armed.

You better take them seriously or it will get ugly!

[TxRider]

10. Because of course they are well represented

By the most extreme among them that someone can find a picture of and post on a blog.

They are all that whacko, to the last. Like all Muslims are terrorists don't ya know.

[Hugabear]

11. I have yet to hear one that isn't completely irrational

They might not all be stark raving screaming mad, but I've yet to hear one express an opinion that isn't basically "Obama bad. Healthcare reform bad. Taxes bad."

[Grand Taurean]

12. Correct.

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. My favorite teabagger story

My friend has a radio show and was interviewing the teabaggers at one of their rallies. This man told her he didn't believe in taxes, not even for public safety. She asked what he would do if his house caught on fire and he said "Oh, my neighbors would call 911!"

:banghead:

[TxRider]

21. I have

Maybe because I'm surrounded by more of them.

Many were quite mad at Bush's spending, and are quite angry about the explosion of deficit and debt.

It was not the change they voted for last year.

[Hugabear]

22. They voted for Obama?

"it was not the change they voted for last year" - really?

[alfredo]

13. They hate our form of government.

[CoffeeCat]

15. Ummmm, yeah...I know one of these types...

...and have had lengthy conversations about politics with him lately.

This person is convinced that the tea party is a national, growing movement that is going to take over the country. He
kept saying over and over that it is made up of Democrats, moderates, Republicans and Independents. When I said that
if there were Democrats, they were centrists--and there were probably only a handful--he absolutely insisted that this
is a HUGE, growing, bipartisan effort that is taking over the country.

He also said that there was a Rasmussen poll, asking people what party you identify with. Apparently, most people said
they identified with the "tea party"...more than Dems/Reps/Indies.

The talking points he was spouting were sheer lunacy. I'm talking over-the-edge, freaky-deaky lunacy.

Fox News and Glen Beck has these people by the cajones.

I tuned into Beck that night--after this conversation--and every damn thing Beck said--was a talking point that I heard earlier
in the day from this tea partier. These people just spout off what is on the screen. They believe every word.

They believe they are the center of the universe and that they are the new bipartisan revolution taking over the country.

These people do not live in reality. They get their reality from Glenn Beck's lies, which are easily refutable with a Google search.

Be afraid, people. Be very afraid.

[msongs]

16. fear of a black president racist anti-gay anti-liberal republicans nt

[timeforpeace]

17. Brown's internet guru guy credited the Tea Party volunteers with the success of the internet effort,

so we might be dissing their effectiveness at our peril.