About these teabaggers winning repubican primary nominations . . . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

I think there's a lesson to be learned as we go through these upcoming elections.

Here's the premise: By today's measure, these people are the mirror opposite of the uber liberals (me included) on our side. They differ from our fringe, however, in that they actually challenged the establishment on their side by running. If they win in any serious numbers, we're pretty much fucked for a while.

But if they lose, what effect might they have had? Nothing? The stuff of ridicule and late night comedy jokes?

That will be more obvious later, but it seems to me they will have moved their party even further to the right, and in the process, taken our side along with them.

Not bad for people we laugh at.

[DireStrike]

1. Well they're also funded by people who understand what you said

who basically do it to move the center right. On the other hand, us lefties are attacked by everything remotely establishment.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

2. so then is it time to build a truly liberal party under the left wing of the Democratic party

similar to what the tea baggers are doing under the right wing of the republican party

[applegrove]

3. There was an article in this months vanity fair that talked about gerrymandering and

how it means only a few seats are open races. Which means that most of the actual 'races' really take place in the primaries. Which means that it is a tight race between centre candidates and right wing nuts (teabaggers) or left wingers who often win. So congress is becoming more and more extreme on both sides of the isle.

If this is true we could expect to see more teabaggers in 2010.