We should call it what it is: the Limbaugh/Beck Tea Party.

[pnwmom]

We can laugh at the word teabagger, but most people won't get the joke. We need to define the party in a way that people WILL understand.

The polls show that the popularity of the Tea Party is continuing to decline, but a sizable segment of voters still don't know what they stand for. If they did, they'd be that much more likely to oppose them.

So I propose we routinely link the party to its talk show roots: call it the Limbaugh/Beck Tea Party. Or the Beck/Limbaugh Tea Party. Both are the virtual heads of the party.

The Tea Party doesn't have grass roots. It has radio talk roots. We shouldn't let anyone forget that.


http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_wilentz

For the fractious Tea Party movement, Beck—a former drive-time radio jockey, a recovering alcoholic, and a Mormon convert—has emerged as both a unifying figure and an intellectual guide. One opinion poll, released in July by Democracy Corps, showed that he is “the most highly regarded individual among Tea Party supporters,” seen not merely as an entertainer, like Rush Limbaugh, but as an “educator.”


http://www.politicususa.com/en/Rush-Tea-Bag-Protests

Rush Limbaugh responded to the Tea Party protests on his radio show today, by declaring that the tea baggers are just like him. They want President Obama to fail.

[kentuck]

1. I think this is appropriate:

------- TEA PARTY ---------
TERRORISTS & HOSTAGE TAKERS

[Ship of Fools]

2. I thought a poll was taken and the consensus was "Idiocrats..."

I keep forgetting to use the term, though.

[sakabatou]

3. The Mortis Imperium Party?

No, people wouldn't know what that means means either. Hmmm...