I will not accede to calling them "tea partiers" as they wish we would. They are "tea baggers."

[CTyankee]

They're the ones who wore the damn tea bags dangling from their stupid hats last summer. They earned that designation by their own volition...when they got embarrassed they scrambled to change their name. Nothing doin', baggers!

I would hope that we here at DU can deny the baggers their wish and their attempt to whitewash their stupidity...

[driver8]

1. An announcer on the news this morning called them "tea partiers".

I thought to myself, "Hell, no! They are tea baggers! That is what they called themselves, and that is what they are going to be!"

[Xenotime]

2. Enemies of the state if you ask me. I like tea.

[SPedigrees]

4. I'm a tea drinker too, but I aint no teabagger! nt

[SPedigrees]

3. Yep, they're teabaggers.

And the bill that just passed is better called health insurance reform, not health care reform.

[unpossibles]

5. I prefer to keep it simple

I call them sadly uninformed racist morans.

[polichick]

6. I call them RACIST THUGS - even to Republicans, who are shocked! :)

[Liberal In Texas]

7. Or...TPers.

[tekisui]

8. They are Republicans. I think it time we marry the two

forever.

[calimary]

9. Agreed. No "Party" here. They're teaBAGGERS. Or whatever the worst pejorative is.

And they were plastering themselves with tea bags to prove it - and then parading around in public like that. What else should they - or ANYONE ELSE - expect?

[lunatica]

10. I tried calling them the tea partiers for a while but went back to teabaggers

for the same reason you give. They earned it. They aren't entitled to automatic respect for their views. They're entitled to being considered inhumane pariahs who are too stupid to even know how ignorant they are.

[MicaelS]

I stole this quote from a member here on DU for my sig.....

"Those T-baggers better understand, after you use a T-Bag you throw it away. And that is exactly what the Republicans are going to do with them."

[Kablooie]

11. Yep, baggin' tea for the Gipper.

[PDittie]

12. I'l stop calling them TeaBaggers when

they stop saying "Democrat Party."

[Gman2]

13. Teaflufflers, teascreamers, teaboogers, teabunkers, teabuggers, tea-----------

With all that tea, and not a one of them read the leaves, to know that idiocy doesnt sell?

[Vincardog]

14. How about this? If you don't want to be called a 'tea bagger' don't act like a Douche bag.

[smoogatz]

15. Well, their first couple of names didn't pan out, either.

They started out as the Rusty Tromboners. Then they toyed with calling themselves the Cleveland Steamers. Teabaggers was really just an afterthought.

[Iggo]

20. They barely even considered Donkey Punchers.

Wait...that one almost makes sense...lol.

:rofl:

[NJmaverick]

16. After what they did to Congressman Lewis and Franks

even teabagger is too good for them

[HopeHoops]

17. And ALWAYS lower case - "teabaggers".

[HarveyDarkey]

18. .

[Iggo]

19. 'Baggers.