Do you love the Tea Party?

[mkultra]

I say that their mere existence will fragment and erode the republican base making their position in the upcoming elections untenable. Is this enough to make you love them or the fact that they exist.

[meowomon]

1. I agree

I hope they win every primary this year.

[Mz Pip]

2. I can't see how they really have

any long lasting influence. Anger and resentment isn't enough to build a viable political movement. That's all they have.

The need ideas, not vitriol. How does "I want my country back!" translate into policies or justice?

[ngant17]

3. actually they are killing me with laughter

and I rarely get this kind of daily amusement these days.

Yes, I know there are extremists in the midst of the Tea Baggers and they would probably support a violent coup in spite of their rhetoric in support of democracy.

But the whole outfit is a joke and amusing. They have a very limited capacity to think critically and they are even more oblivious to history, theirs is a fantastic world of imagined history in which they will present nonsense as reality.

[old mark]

4. I love when they think they are writing clever slogans on signs and

misspell them - It's more fun than watching Sarah Palin trying to speak English...

"Home Scolars aginst Socalism"
:rofl:

mark

[FlaGranny]

6. Is that a real sign?

Good grief, it doesn't say a whole lot for home schooling.

[old mark]

7. It is a compilation of several signs I saw posted on GD over the last week -

The "big" teabagger rally in DC, IIRC, had one sign with the term "socalism", and one other sign had "scolar". I just used creative licentiousness to combine the diverse elements.

There is certainly more than enough ignorance out there to go around without my help, though....

mark

[cleveramerican]

5. waiting for the moment Dems find a wedge

Wall Street regulation is a potential wedge issue.

I can't imagine the tea-partyers siding with the big banks and brokerage houses over the individual when it comes to regulation.

How can you be pissed about the bail-outs and favor not doing anything to prevent the next one?

[dccrossman]

8. +1

Another reason it makes sense to go hard after Financial Reform.

Conservatives that push back against it will have trouble explaining that to their Tea Party constituents.

Channeling a spin machine:
Of course, if it was proposed by Obama though, it may just be a socialist plot for the govmunt to take over da banks, and not let people ride the Free Market. And you want your chance to ride the Free Market, don't ya? So, it's bad, ya see?

[era veteran]

9. Politically yes, socially no.

A great wedge but indicative of the effects of the big lie propaganda machine and how it has corrupted the public ken.

[DailyGrind51]

10. No, they are absorbing energy better invested in important issues.

[TheKentuckian]

11. Let's see I hate the Klan. I hate laissez faire. I really hate laissez faire klan

rallies and I hate perhaps even more them hogging all the oxygen and that they are moving the debate further to the Reich with the help of the corporate media.

[Rage Inc.]

12. No

But the band is okay!

[Homer Wells]

13. As W.C. Fields was purported to have said

'Ahh, yes, I love Kids. I prefer them French-fried'.

:evilgrin:

[and-justice-for-all]

14. Tea Partiers are a wound that will not clot...

for the pukes, they are bleeding to death because of their own base; watching them self destruct is great.