Is there any one thing the Teabaggers are actaully FOR?

[arbusto_baboso]

Or is their entire raison d'etre about opposing and hating things?

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

[LiberalLoner]

1. Yes. They are for establishing a theocratic dictatorship and they are for

killing off anyone who is not white, conservative, Protestant (their denomination of choice) and stupid.

[theothersnippywshrub]

2. Scrotal warming. n/t

[valerief]

3. Angry and stupid mob. That's all they are. Cannibals. nt

[doc03]

4. Since they are mostly old I would say they are for

keeping their SS and Medicare intact but screw the younger people.

[doc03]

5. There were a bunch of the old fat dumbasses passing out

Constitutions on the corner when I came home a few minutes ago. They had the usual signs to Take Our Country Back, Repeal Obamacare etc.

[Freetradesucks]

20. And how is that different than what we stand for??

Minus the "screw the young people"? Bad example.

[Taverner]

6. Theocracy and American Hegemony

[underpants]

7. They are for all the things Bush didn't do

and some of the things he did

it gets confusing...ask one of them... they will scream at you

[lunatica]

8. They are definitely for NOTHING

No equivocation at all in this regard. Unflinchingly firm they are. And no amount of facts are going to sway them from their conviction.

[customerserviceguy]

9. I've been in the minority on this here

Yes, there are some racial elements to them, but it's my opinion that they are just as appalled by Rethuglican spending as they are by Democratic spending. The bailouts of the banksters disturbed them as much as it did us. If Barack Obama had appointed people who were opposed to those bailouts, rather than their architects, we might not have seen a tea party movement.

Some ordinary citizens who don't traditionally align with the Democratic Party or progressive organizations have been concerned about the rampant corporatism of establishment Repugs, but don't feel a kinship with groups that approach opposition to the buying and selling of influence from the left. The tea party movement has swept them up.

Those who dismiss the tea partiers as mere racist haters don't really know the impact they have with people who don't see them that way. At some point, President Obama will have to help the progressives and the tea partiers that will be elected to Congress to find common ground, in order to oppose the will of the GOP establishment.

If he doesn't get his tax plan through before January, he might find that common ground in the issue of taxes. I don't see the tea party crowd as being all that fond of millionaires getting big tax breaks, but if some concessions are made to small businesses that are trying to hire people, you might see a 'strange bedfellows' alliance of Democratic progressives and tea partiers on the subject of middle class tax breaks.

[kentuck]

15. I tend to agree with you...

I think the huge debt of George W Bush drove most of them away from the Republican Party. If the Democrats could show that they are against the big taxcuts for the wealthy, it would sell very good with the Tea Party crowd. They would think of that before they pulled the lever for a Republican that would vote for extending the millionaire taxcuts. It would be smart politics, imo.

[krabigirl]

19. Hmm..maybe the libertarian types, but not most in the tea party..they still love their wars.

[stray cat]

10. Less taxes

[driver8]

11. They are for taking their country back from the black guy...

That's about it.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. white power.

[blondeatlast]

13. Medicare and Social Security--but not for you, me and anyone else who will

respond at DU today.

[obxhead]

14. Corporate profit.

They may not be aware of it, but that's mostly what they are actually supporting.

[EstimatedProphet]

16. Slavery, theocracy, and every household in the country getting a Muslim baby to torture

[muntrv]

17. They are for whaaahht paaaaaar!

[DailyGrind51]

18. Tea?