What do the right and the teabaggers hope to accomplish exactly?

[Initech]

Health care for everybody? Nope.

Civil rights for everybody? Nope.

Do they even hope to do anything about our soaring unemployment? Probably not.

Do they hope to improve education? Nope.

It seems to me all they do is obstruct and reject.

[Gman2]

1. Fear of death to anyone expanding entitlements, at all. Monopolize all representation.

[RKP5637]

2. For many teabaggers the current discourse has given them an opportunity

IMO to vent hatred with an apparent cause. IMO many of these teabaggers are unpleasant individuals in or out of the role of being a teabagger.

[Turbineguy]

3. They hope to convince us

that complex and difficult problems can be solved by simple and stupid people.

[RKP5637]

8. +1,000 +++ Well Said!!! n/t

[unblock]

36. ROFL!

[The_Commonist]

4. I think they're REALLY just trying to get...

...their diapers changed, but the won't just come right out and ask!

[Initech]

7. That makes sense.

:rofl:

[RKP5637]

26. ... they won't just come right out and ask! 'cause deep down they know they smell so bad!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[BR_Parkway]

48. Guess they can't afford Sen Vitter's hooker

[Junkdrawer]

5. They moved the debate WAAAAY to the Right...

Which, of course, is why they were manufactured to begin with.

[theoldman]

6. They want to do several things.

1. Eliminate abortion.
2. Make Christianity the controlling religion in the US.
3. Prevent minorities from having any power.

[RKP5637]

9. I'll add one if OK... 4. Take us back to The Dark Ages. n/t

[Initech]

11. That's the vibe I get from them.

[newspeak]

38. don't forget

privatizing and deregulate the shite out of everything.

[KillCapitalism]

44. To add to that...

Exterminate the poor.

[Uben]

10. They only want one thing.....

...and that's to be back in the majority. They are asking if anyone has any idea how they can accomplish this to please write to Sarah Palin or John Boner.

One other thing, they would also like someone to rinse out their panties, cuz this HCR thing has them a bit soiled!

[Initech]

24. There was a great quote from Jon Stewart a while back...

He said that the Republicans who want limited government want it limited to being run by Republicans.

[unblock]

37. it's a bit like wondering about a military battle by asking about what a soldier "wants"

the military battle isn't about what a soldier wants. it's about what the generals and leaders want.

the soldiers want to carry out their orders and survive. in order to do this willingly, they have to be activated into thinking that they are fighting for some reason. mostly, in this case, it's right-wing/republican tribalism. outsiders are "others" and must be fought.

[NecklyTyler]

12. Tbaggers want the Obama Administration to fail

I would say the vast majority of them have not thought past getting our President to fail. Most of them are driven by blind hate brought on by the revelation that the President is a black man. They just can't deal with it

[Jade Fox]

13. You're assuming they have actual goals.....

The teabaggers are yet another instance of the Right trying to have their own 1960s: Dressing kooky and taking to the streets to protest......whatever.

Just another instance of 60s-envy, which has plagued Conservatives for four decades now.

[LiberalLoner]

14. Someone here posted their real aim is to overthrow democracy and replace with theocracy.

[Jade Fox]

16. I find it difficult to take Teabaggers that seriously.....

Most of the Teabaggers are ignorant, passive people revved up on feelings of victimization that contains a large component of racism.

Beyond making noise, isolated instances of cowardly violence is all Teabaggers seem capable of, and that will damage them. It already has.

[RKP5637]

17. True, but they do vote... that is their right, of course, but scary because I don't

feel too many of them think past what the most recent heckler said or misspelled sign they saw.

[Jade Fox]

18. I'd be willing to bet a lot of Teabaggers don't vote.....

because they are so passive and in love with feeling victimized.

This is part of the corner the Teabaggers have painted the GOP into: If the Republicans don't court the them, the Teabaggers will again stay home on election day. It's the same stranglehold the Christian Right has the on GOP.

I'd like to see some statistics on the voting records of Teabaggers.

[RKP5637]

23. Oh I hope they do stay home, and not too many D's. n/t

[Initech]

25. That sounds about right.

[laughingliberal]

15. That depends entirely on if you mean the average stupid teabagger or the powers behind them. nt

[Roland99]

19. All they want to do is terrorize and fulfull their selfish greed. Terrorist Party is what they are.

[moondust]

20. Accomplish nothing. Control everything. n/t

[Emit]

21. They think they are saving their country from us commies and socialists

'cause they are the real u'mericans, dontcha' know?

:rofl:

[JackRiddler]

22. Absolutely nothing. Have a lynching, go home to dinner. Repeat next week.

[RKP5637]

28. And go to church on the w/e, get told it's good.

[Kablooie]

27. They want power. That's it. If they got it they would decide what to do then.

There is no thought behind the movement. It's pure emotion.

If they ever got power, they would probably want to dismantle all the services government provides. Essentially anarchy is they are heading to.

[Kltpzyxm]

29. It's a way to vent

one's racism with a degree of cover.

[spanone]

30. they want everyone to be dumber than they are so they can feel superior once in their pathetic lives

sarah palin gives them great hope

[CBR]

31. They want to get rid of the President. That is it. nt

[harun]

32. Inequality and privilege for the rich. They call it many different names but they all

point to those two things.

[JackRiddler]

33. You're giving them too much credit for knowing what they're doing...

the footsoldiers with the "Obama is a Muslim Socialist" signs probably think they're combatting snooty Harvard-educated privileged "liberal elites" who think they're so much smarter than teabaggers and hate America.

[harun]

43. I was referring to the inciters, you are correct in the T-baggers not having a flippin

clue what they are doing.

[graywarrior]

34. To remove that uppity negro from the White House

[MadMaddie]

39. Yea that about sums it up!

Hey weren't you taking some classes? How did they go?

[graywarrior]

42. I'm in the middle of 3 courses right now

I have no life

[annabanana]

35. Most of them really have NO FRIGGEN' IDEA..

If you ask them a substantive question.. Like "how does this health care bill 'take away your freedom', exactly".. they have no idea.

[Cresent City Kid]

47. That would stump them on lots of issues

"How does same-sex marriage affect you?" As if the freedom to oppose a law is lost if the law passes. Gimme a break. Better yet, gimme my 8 years of back-freedom owed when my right to oppose Bush's tax cuts for the rich was trampled on.

[Cleita]

40. Scare people by spreading lies.

Then they control those people. Hitler knew the methods very well.

[Odin2005]

41. Fascism.

[guitar man]

45. In their wildest dreams

This....this is what they want

[Cresent City Kid]

46. Whatever they've been told they want to acomplish.

The teabag movement is about policies designed for the top 1% getting more than 1% of the vote in elections. The ones pulling their strings are working them into a frenzy to obsruct everything, because every proposal threatens to undo their dirty work. Feeding the fevered pitch is the fact that Obama's moves have to be drastic not only to clean up after Bush 43, but to handle unfinished business from Clinton's term.

The teabaggers themselves are a hodge-podge of various flavors of gullible. Their goals are all over the place and often vague. They didn't notice when Bush screwed them over, and might not notice when things get better as the changes they fear take hold.

[tom_paine]

49. The RW Authoritarian Followers, they just follow, but the Leaders want to continue transitioning

our former liberal democratic-republic into whatever is the final form of the new version of RW Authoritarian Totalitarianism they have been planning and pushing since the 70s or maybe even before.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml

Naturally, the Tea Baggers are accusing us of doing what they themselves (or to put it more accurately what the leaders they unquestioningly follow) are doing.

It's a "Nazis accuse the Jews of being serial liars and propagandists out to take over the world" thing.