Keep sharp, people. The correct term is TEABAGGERS.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Because the person you're conversing with is saying "Tea Party" this, and "Tea Partiers" that, doesn't mean you have to slip into their parlance.

That will be all. Have a nice day. Actually no, that's not all. If some pearl-clutching "concerned" poster comes here deriding the "name-calling", you'll know when to raise the alarm bells.

[AsahinaKimi]

1. Teabaggers

Would not be the worst thing I would call them. A few other choice words come to mind.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. Like idiot?

[AsahinaKimi]

22. I had a few harsher words in mind

We can start at the beginning of the alpha bet.. and work our way though.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. I knew that.

Besides, it irritates them to no end.

I like it when they are irritated.

[SidDithers]

3. +1. Good post...

I've seen "Tea Partiers" used here at the DU. That shit needs to stop. They were once, and will always be Teabaggers.

Sid

[RZM]

7. Is this really a big deal?

I use 'tea party' exclusively. That's the term I'm most comfortable with and it's my choice. Why would anyone care what term I choose to use?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. Heh.

[SidDithers]

12. Tea Party is a re-branding...

They originally called themselves teabaggers, without knowing the sexual connotation associated with the name.

As the OP suggested, using Tea Party is a concession to what they want.

Sid

[RZM]

16. I'm aware of that

I know the term originated within the group. But I have to ask again . . . why would anyone care what term I choose to use? Is your only reason because that's what they want to be called and if they want it, you don't? I try to call groups of people what they ask to be called, as long as its within reason, no matter my personal opinion of the group.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. In the immortal words of the Rude Pundit...

Because fuck them.

There's a group of people that does NOT deserve ANY kind of deference whatsoever.

They. Are. Tea. Baggers.

[RZM]

27. Well that's your choice

I'm not telling anyone else what to call them, just explaining my own choice.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

30. Of course, I'm going door to door with my gang of Komisars of the Glorious People's Revolution

Busting the heads of everybody who fails to use the Party's spelling orthodoxy.

:eyes:

[11 Bravo]

40. Do you also use "Democrat" Party. That's another wing-nut re-branding.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

42. My OP has white text. Me = teh psychic. -nt

[RZM]

44. Yeah I just love it to death . . .

Oh wait, no I don't. IMO, it's difficult to credibly counter the 'democrat party' poppycock while using 'teabagger' in the next breath. But hey, that's just me.

[yurbud]

38. there is an off-shoot anti-immigration group called the Dirty Sanchezes.

[notadmblnd]

26. Yes! "Teabaggers"- which is what the first called themselves

(until they found out it was slang for a particular sexual activity), really pisses them off. But it fits them oh so perfectly.

[JuniperLea]

4. The Tea Party is a really cool Canadian band...

That's all my mind will allow me to think when I hear the term, tea party.



Teabagger... now that's a different sort of beast...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Geez I'd sue for defamation of character if I were them. One more reason to use the correct term. nt

[JuniperLea]

21. Yeah, if they were a REAL organization...

You know, registered as a REAL political party and that kind of thing, then they probably could do that.

[SidDithers]

8. That's right! I'd forgotten about them...

Always liked The Bazaar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCye7v79Tz0

The lead singer had a very Jim Morrison feel to him.

Sid

[JuniperLea]

18. Yeah, total Morrison!

Jeff Martin is really hot like The Lizard King too...



But I digress... :D

The Bazaar is great... so is Sister Awake. I really like Drawing Down the Moon and Inanna. I even used the name Inanna to their tribute on a metal/stoner rock board I used to post on.

Well, there you have it! I take great offense at these GOPers co-opting a good name! Teabaggers... pft!

[HopeHoops]

5. Agreed. THEY started using it first and it took FUCKING FOREVER for them to figure it out.

Are they really so damn stupid that they can't type their OWN NAME into Google? Never mind. Dumb question.

[Uben]

9. I prefer Tea Naggers.....

...it's much more demeaning, and sometimes elicits a response. Afterall, about all they do is nag.

[MrScorpio]

10. I call them the "Teabaggerati"...

I think it fits.

[JuniperLea]

19. It does!

Good one!

:thumbsup:

[Nuclear Unicorn]

13. You realize that if they win one or both houses they stop the president cold

on what little meaningful agenda he has had thus far.

So when you call them tea baggers and they hold a dominant position its progressives that will end up accepting the sweaty, salty, hairy end of the transaction.

I myself will be disabusing myself of such imagery.

just sayin'

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. No.

[JuniperLea]

20. No.

[madmax]

23. K & R

[Politicalboi]

24. I did this just yesterday to my teabagging brother

He got pissed. LOL! He said "how would you like it if I called you a dyke?" I told him I never labeled myself as a dyke, but they labeled themselves as Teabaggers. I never thought I'd see the day that my brother thinks Rhodes Scholars are dumb like Rachel Maddcow as he calls her, and Palin is Presidential. I don't know how he can continue this. It boggles the mind.

[Igel]

46. There's a whole/part problem.

Not all of them called themselves "teabaggers." To say every one can or must be called "teabagger" because some did rather implies that's the norm for designations.

You use "I" to say you're an individual and that what others in a group do is irrelevant, you have to go person by person. Then you use "they" to say that what some individuals do in that group serves to define and label the group, then you deny their individuality by saying what individuals in that group do is irrelevant.

My in-laws are all tea partiers. They never used "teabaggers." One is emerita faculty in biology, another is ABD in geophysics, another 2 are the proud mother and stepfather of an out gay man.

[edbermac]

25. I can't even figure out Trekkies and Trekkers.

Give me a break, huh?

[Ian David]

28. Nothing wrong with "Ballsack-in-mouth-party" either, as pointed out by Paton Oswald. n/t

[butterfly77]

31. WTF?

[butterfly77]

29. Exactly!

:kick:

[BlueIdaho]

32. Remember when Rove started calling us the "Democrat" party?

Well, its payback time.

teabaggers... republican teabagger party... it all works for me.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

33. They can dish it but can't take it. Typical.

[Canuckistanian]

47. It started earlier than that

I hear it goes back to Barry Goldwater times.

[EstimatedProphet]

34. I use teabillies a lot.

[lunatica]

37. I might steal that from you

Sometimes using teabaggers in polite company isn't cool.

[tavalon]

35. Yes, exactly

[yurbud]

36. I thought it was testicle gargler

[PeaceNikki]

39. If they blame liberals for this, remember...

Origin of the term Teabaggers? It came from the movement itself, when they asked people to "teabag" Obama by sending symbolic teabags, apparently ignorant of the college prank of the same name. This was all well documented, including here: http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/04/10/gop-wants-to-teabag... /

If they don't want to be called Teabaggers, they shouldn't use "teabag" as a verb, as found on their t-shirts or signs which are easily seen in Google Images searches. It's pretty basic to call someone who teabags a teabagger, so I'm surprised some are now taking offense.

[lame54]

41. If anybody argues this point - show them this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu0UYvVm0yY

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

43. That's what they called themselves. Whenever I use the term people look at me with this

quixotic look on their faces. I have to explain to them that that's what the TEABAGGERS themselves were calling themselves. It's not our fault. It's theirs!!

[terrya]

45. You almost feel like you should apologize to John Waters....

Waters popularized "tea bagging" in his movie "Pecker". And, because of no fault of his or our own, "tea baggers" is now associated with a bunch of batshit insane, lunatic, racist, Sarah Palin loving right wing assholes.

But we'll always remember the orignial definition....

[bullwinkle428]

48. Heh-heh-heh...I love teabagger flypaper!

:evilgrin:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

51. These strips never stay clean for long, do they?

[spanone]

49. i prefer sad, ignorant assholes. but you're probably right.

[JHB]

50. One more reason to not use "Tea Party":

The people they're trying to name themselves after -- the guys in 18th Century Boston -- took it upon themselves to destroy the equivalent of millions of dollars worth of property of one of the most financially and politically powerful corporations of its day. The act itself carried the prospect of immediate (and likely bloody) violence, had there been any determined resistance to their actions. And even without bloodshed, the action was sufficient to precipitate a military crackdown on the entire city.


And teabaggers have the gall to claim to be the heirs to that legacy? :puke: