[funny] Tea party candidate calls tea party "dumbasses"

No, it's not really the spirit either. The original tea partiers had a legitimate complaint of unfairness and had a plan of action to resolve it. These guys just b**** about whatever random things - many in conflict with each other - and don't have any actual plan of governing. It's not similar in the least.

Emboldened to do what?

It's not remotely the same kind of frustration. It's just fearmongering this time around.

 

The Tea Party is a farce created by blind hatred to color, not policy. Their leader Ms Palin exemplifies everything wrong with the movement, and the rabidity that her followers mark her works with is sickening.

 

Anytime the masses are in control, leaders will be chosen by emotions and not logic. Anytime the masses aren't in control, leaders will be chosen by family lineage or greed and not logic.

 

I think most of the hatred of the Tea Party comes from liberals who hate conservatives anyways.

 

Perfectly cromulent post.


giddy, I assure you the Tea Party is as irrelevant as B-Bob's cellular phone.

 

Okay what have we learned from you guys:

1. The seminal event in launching the American Revolution is irrelevant

2. It's still easy to hurl insults rather than think about or address the argument


The Boston Tea Party was pre-Revolutionary and you think they had a plan other than heaving boxes of tea into the harbor? Think about that one again.

A couple of hundred years later a frustrated group of citizens comes together to protest what is going on in their own government (big difference there).

Ah, if life were only as simple as it had been in the 18th century...

As Batman has stated teapartiers are not a Party SO QUIT HOLDING THEM TO THE STANDARDS OF A MODERN POLITICAL PARTY.

They chose the name because of the historical event and the spirit it represented. The protest this time is fundamentally different because now they are protesting their own government not a foreign government.

 

I posted this in the other thread and no one had the guts to address it's content. Nor did anyone attack me for posting it so it must be legitimate. Can's wait until this guy is identified. Notice the crispness of his shirt; wonder where he gets his dry cleaning done?

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You know, to me, it seems like the difference has nothing to do with the overseas or domestic location of the seat of government, and everything to do with the fact that the original folks actually weren't represented; in this case, everyone is. That doesn't strike you as not only "not identical," but a fundamentally different thing?

 

The Tea Party is more important and far more influential as a television-viewer demographic than as an agent of change in American culture.

 

Most of the liberals I know think the tea party is funny, in a sad kind of way; the more "in your face" liberals I know openly encourage them as a method to make the GOP look stupid (ref: mcmark).

Most real conservatives I know find them maddening, since all they do is impede real progress on actual conservative stances.

 

I think that the teapartiers would tell you that their values are not being represented and i fact are being undermined.

Those that opposed the original Tea Partiers were loyalists to the King of England.

 

hey!

Well if I'm going to be labeled that way, I guess I should play the part: There is no difference between the republican party and the tea party

Dems To Define GOP With 'Republican-Tea Party Contract With America'

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine today will announce a new party initiative aimed at defining the Republicans who want to win control of Congress as tea partiers who want to repeal everything and abolish federal agencies.

The "Republican-Tea Party Contract With America"

- Repeal the Affordable Care Act (Health insurance Reform)
- Privatize Social Security or phase it out altogether
- End Medicare as it presently exists
- Extend the Bush tax breaks for the wealthy and big oil
- Repeal Wall Street Reform
- Protect those responsible for the oil spill and future environmental catastrophes
- Abolish the Department of education
- Abolish the Department of energy
- Abolish the environmental protection agency
- Repeal the 17th Amendment which provides for the direct election of senators


America cannot afford for the GOTea Party to turn us back

 

tough ****. they should've worked harder to make sure they were represented by someone who shares their values. to compare them to those who had no choice in their representation is ridiculous.

 

That's what they are doing now: WORKING HARDER... and all you want to do is disrespect, ridicule and discourage them. Please explain?

 

of course, that's not what you were arguing. nevermind the fact that comparing obama to hitler and stalin is not exactly the greatest example of respect.

 

There you go again, Groogrux! Defaming out forefathers. Well, I won't stand for it. I'm going to sit down and watch as you continue to mock our noble Boston Tea Partiers.

 

The dems defining the GOP as such does not make it so. A bunch of pathetic GOPers desperate for reelection have aligned themselves with the TPers, but only a few diehard loonybins are actually intending to act upon the oft-psychotic ranting of that group of jokers. Most are just cynically playing the vote game, IMO.

Of course, you can take solace in that the above "contract" (haha) is still better than the texas state GOPs contract (cue weslinder).

 

1. It is certainly irrelevant to the modern Tea Party. Just like WW2 and the Civil War and any number of other important events in American history are irrelevant to them. The took the name because it was catchy.

2. Address what argument? That somehow these tea partiers are uniquely angry and relevant? There have been lots of angry protest mobs throughout American history. You have yet to suggest anything that makes this one unique, except that they seem to think they are important because of their name.

 

im not a liberal, a democrat or an obama supporter and i hate the tea party - biggest hypocrites ive ever seen in my life. bunch of jokers.

when bush tripled the size of the federal government and spent more than all previous presidents combined (in 3.5 years, i might add) the teabaggers loved it. and in fact, those who criticized bush at the time were labeled anti-american/troop-haters - but a (black) democrat gets elected president and all of a sudden teabaggers are into fiscal conservatism and limited government. im not buying it.

furthermore, the teaparty movement was started by ron paul supporters in 2007 to protest bush's liberal spending policies and big government initiatives. the movement was totally co-opted by fox news when obama got elected.

all this being said, i hope the teabaggers continue on - its good entertainment, plus im in favor of anything that will help splinter/discredit/destroy the republican party.

americans values are not being represented, but that has been going on under republicans and democrats. the problem for teabaggers is that when bush was doing all this crap teabaggers loved it and attacked anyone who dared criticize him. but now a (black) democrat is president and all of a sudden yall are into fiscal conservatism and limited government. where were the teabaggers during 8 years of bush?