Limbaugh worries that the "tea-baggers" may desert to form 3rd Party...

[kentuck]

Driving back from Kentucky to Colorado, I had a lot of time to check out the different talk radio stations. Rush Limbaugh was on more than his share.

Thursday morning, he let it be known that he had concerns that these folks would leave the Republican Party and follow someone like Ron Paul or another 3rd Party candidate. If that happened, then the whole propaganda campaign created by the likes of Limbaugh and FOX News, would be for naught. Be careful what you wish for Rush, you might just get it.

Obviously, most of the people at the demonstrations had no idea what they were talking about or demonstrating for. Just as an infiltrator asked them to cheer if they made under $250,000 dollars. Loud cheers ensued. Then, when he advised them that they were getting a tax break under Barack Obama, they booed. They must have been there for another reason?

Either they are racists or they are so partisan that it doesn't matter what the truth is so long as they get to rant against Obama and the Democrats. Some admitted in interviews afterwards that they were only made aware about the huge debt in the last few months. They had no idea how deep George W Bush and the Republicans had put us in the hole. Once they find out the truth, this whole tea-bag demonstration thing could backfire on them big time. Rush Limbaugh is right to worry about a Third Party.

[pepperbear]

1. Oh, no! What have you done, Rush!?! n/t

[47of74]

2. I hope they will

I hope the tea baggers will leave the GOP and form their own little party.

[charlyvi]

26. The Tea Party! LOL

[cherish44]

3. They were protesting Obama not taxes

The tax thing was just a facade so that Fox could promote the hell out of it without brazenly announcing it was nothing but partisan bullshit (they know their viewers are naive idiots and they're counting on the rest of us being just as stupid)

[old mark]

4. I have been predicting just that event since last fall when I saw

the level of insanity and hatred in the Republican campaign, especially after Palin entered. The GOP knew they had little to no chance of winning, used McCain as a sacrifice just to have someone to run. Palin ignited the really crazy right, and gave the GOP a spark of "hope". Palin and her group, Bobby J, etc, are the future of the right wing, but the old style mainstream conservative GOPers have NO ONE even waiting in the wings. Enter Newt, the crossover between the old GOP and the NeoCons.
Newt may be the statdard bearer for the GOP in the future, leaving Palin, Bobby and the Texas Governor as candidates for one or several small extreme RW parties to come soon.
Follow what they are saying in Freeperville; Who will do something about Obama? These 'Baggers will line up behind anyone who is immoral enough to yell what they want to hear - maybe Palin. They already think she was persecuted by the liberal media and McCain.

Going to be interesting - they make the American Nazis look civilized.

mark

[marshall]

31. They're like an army of Cindy Sheehans

Sheehan turned out to be an embarassment to the Democrats with her ever increasingly bizarre protests and rants. Now the Republicans have the equivalent of thousands of Sheehans.

[DJ13]

5. Nice work Rush!

We Dems have wanted to kill off the GOP for at least 30 years, and you may have done it in Obama's first 100 days.

lol

[beac]

14. He "blued" the nation prematurely!

Rush Limbaugh, the Tobias Funke of the GOP!





(A hundred bucks says he's also a "Never Nude" ;) )

[hlthe2b]

17. re: A hundred bucks says he's also a "Never Nude"

One can only pray.....;)

[Catshrink]

24. I miss that show. David Cross was awesome!

They all were awesome. It was crazy, weird, wonderful.

[beac]

32. You know they are making an AD movie, right?

Michael Cera was the lone holdout (hello, getting big for our britches!), but he is finally on board too. Not sure when they begin shooting.

:bounce:

[Catshrink]

6. Fox Snooze has managed to marginalize the whack jobs.

Let them form a party -- the "Libertarian Loon Party." They can go off and form their little racist group and maybe the rest of the Republicans would be freed of their influence so they can help govern, not pander to the whackos.

Stephen Smith is on the right track -- get religion out of politics.

[Still Sensible]

7. Gee, I hope he's right. n/t

[uppityperson]

8. That would be a good idea.

[mitchum]

9. Carnival barker worries that rubes will go to cockfight rather than freak show...

and his employers will be really pissed

[The Straight Story]

10. Hmmm The Tea Bagging Party. The jokes write themselves

:)

[KansDem]

16. Yeah, we'll have the Democrats, the Republicans, and the Baggers...

:rofl:

[burning rain]

11. I recall how Rushbo and so many other conservative blowhards.....

swore up and down that they would never, never vote for John McCain, and then made themselves look extremely silly by rolling over for him when he became the nominee. At some point, though, a good number of rank-and-file Republicans may get sick of being played for fools by the GOP, and decide to be played for fools by an even wackier third party.

[Myrina]

12. I would think the 'rational Republicans' would be the ones to leave ...

... to start a 3rd party, and let Rush rule over his Mighty TeaBagging Army of idiots and inbreds.

[Birthmark]

13. I can't think of a reason...

...that anyone claiming to be a fiscal conservative would vote Republican. The Republicans had their chance and were the most irresponsible government in history, running up massive debt and deficits. Anyone who votes for them is anything BUT a fiscal conservative.

[grantcart]

15. Once it starts to splinter it will go to a 4th party

The libertarian party will pick up the fiscal conservatives and another party will have to be formed to pick up the social and religious conservatives. They won't be worried about winning, just being the head of their tribe, believing that their pure actions will eventually bring their tribe to the top.

[louis-t]

18. Don't kid yourself, repugs will chase the religious and social

conservatives to the ends of the (flat) earth. It's all they have left. They are feigning fiscal conservatancy right now, but are not fooling anyone. As the party dives to the right to try and keep it's base, more and more will leave the party and call themselves 'independant'. I see the tactics getting crazier as the repugs try to keep freepers on board.

[grantcart]

29. In many rural areas the religious right out number non religious republicans

They are already organizing for school boards and city counsels. When they see that they cannot win nationally they will go for a concentrated effort to take over local parties. Sometimes this will be done by taking over the local Republican Party, in other cases they will start a 4th party (ala Constitution Party).

This process has already begun. For example please see The Nebraska Party



The Nebraska Party is the Nebraska affiliate of the Constitution Party. Like its national counterpart, the Nebraska Party is a strongly right-wing party affiliated with the Christian right movement in American politics. The party claims to be the spiritual descendant of the political ideals established by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and William Jennings Bryan. The stated mission of the Nebraska Party is:

“ The Nebraska Party was established to restore economic prosperity to all Nebraskans, to restore the Christian Principles of our Forefathers, and to get the Government back in the hands of the people. The Nebraska Party is founded on the principles of the Democrat-Republican Party, which was established in the early 1800s by Thomas Jefferson. The Democrat-Republican Party, now the Nebraska Party, represents the people, the working people (labor), family farmers, small business and, of course, our senior citizens.

[47of74]

36. I take it this particular low IQ brigade hasn't actually studied Jefferson in depth

Otherwise they might have come across quotes like these;

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Danbury Baptist Association, CT., Jan. 1, 1802

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.

-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782

But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782

[grantcart]

41. Well they haven't really studied much of anything.

Imagine how surprised they would be to read Jefferson's bible.

[MidwestTransplant]

19. But will they have the BALLS to call themselves teabaggers.

[mitchum]

20. Ithink the wealthy republicans will call themselves "Pearl Necklacers"

[stop the bleeding]

45. Crude and funny at the same time. :) nt

[kentuck]

21. Naw...

Just the Tea Party. :-)

It is sad that they have only come to realize, in the last few months, that this country has been going into debt since the day that Bill Clinton left office. Why didn't they know? Did FOX not tell them? Why are they so angry now??

[Iris]

22. He should be more worried that Republicans that aren't like the teabaggers will desert

to a 3rd party. They are the ones most likely to disassociate themselves from the current party if the teabag folks are going to be the front guys.

[Critters2]

23. This is basically what my dad said the other night at dinner.

He said the teabaggers weren't just mad because they lost the election, they're mad because they lost the Repug primary...that these are not the people who supported McCain. They're to the right of that. After that conversation, I began paying more attention to what the teabaggers were saying, and he's right. They kept talking about how mad they were at both parties.

The GOP is imploding. And it is a thing of beauty to watch.

[eleny]

25. Welcome home and thanks for letting us know what you heard!

I hope you didn't get stuck by the snowy weather on the way back.

[kentuck]

27. Thanks eleny.

I was in a race with the storm. I left the hills of Kentucky about 6:00 AM on Thursday and drove about 14 hours. That put me in Salina, Kansas. I left there about 5:00 AM yesterday and got into the Springs about 11:30 AM. I ran into the storm about 30 miles from home but was able to make it on through. Thanks for the thoughts. :-)

[eleny]

40. That's good news!

Nice being faster than the storm. And to think, by Tuesday it'll just be a memory. :hi:

[Habibi]

28. Don't you worry, Rushy. Just tell 'em what you want 'em to do

and they'll do it.

[Blue For You]

30. BREAKING...Teabaggers secede from GOP, form Scrotum Party!

:rofl:

[beac]

34. So, would moderate members of the Scrotum Party been nicknamed

Blue Balls????

:shrug:

[Blue For You]

35. LOL, that works!

[stop the bleeding]

46. :) nt

[upyourstruly]

42. what do we say

when we beat them in an election. "We licked scrotum" ?

[TheCowsCameHome]

33. Sort of Operation Chaos II - another big failure by the OxyPig.

Ol fat boy really knows how to sink his own ship.

[backscatter712]

37. SWEET!!! Keep the Freeptards divided!

I'm all for the Naderizing of the right wing!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

38. limbaugh may be worried beck is getting more publicity than he is.

[Sheltiemama]

39. I would love to see their party's logo.

[Initech]

44. I think the party symbol would be a gigantic ass (not a donkey, an actual ass).

[underpants]

43. Newt

this whole thing was Newt trying to suck the power vacuum his way.

Rush should be worried because he is the establishment regardless of what his addled mind is thinking about it right now

They have a hierarchy of commands and information that this threatens.

[murdoch]

47. Here's another tea bagger genius

[kentuck]

48. OMG! Is he descending a high mountain??

The Form of Patriotic Peak?

[beac]

49. Poster Board & Sharpie - $3

Rental of Vaguely Colonial Outfit - $45

Chance to publicly display Descent into Patriotic madness - Priceless.

[RagAss]

50. They're racists. That's all they are. Why do we keep talking about them?