I met Teabaggers in 2007-8 tabling and they are essentially cowards that run

[zulchzulu]

I remember many times when I would come face-to-face with a Teabagger (actually more like a slovenly half-witted Republican high school dropout who lived with their parents) while tabling for Obama.

They would generally run up awkwardly and perhaps engage in the first human conversation with another in a few days. They smelled. They were usually profusely sweating and were wearing shitty clothes with stains from pounding down some garbage they bought at a McDonald's an hour before.

They would yell some epithet that anyone familiar with hate radio or Fox News could pick apart. They were very tense. And usually ugly.

What would they do when you wanted to engage in a civil discussion about what they were yakking about?

They ran. They walked away quickly. All while muttering some indecipherable nonsense. And that's when you'd see them walking back to their embarrassed elderly mother who they are mooching off of. They were anti-social lonely losers.

It happened time and time again.

When I witnessed the first so-called Tea Party event last spring, you could scan the crowd and see the same people and their ilk that yelled about wanting no taxes one moment and then yelling for police and firemen, who were funded by taxes.

They were simply stupid people. They have no real clue about how government works and how things get done.

Now the 24/7 media drums these people up as though they are possibly a threat and people we should be worried about.

The Secret Service has an eye on these people and they are trained to turn their skulls into pulverized vapor if they get anywhere near being really dangerous.

These people are cowards. Stupid. Cowards. And they want your attention like some half-wit wants to draw attention by taking a crap in the middle of a sparsely attended strip mall.

So I ask that the 24/7 media not give these people any added attention. They are cowards.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I agree with your observations.

Let's not give these idiots any more credibility than we can possibly help.

Or attention.

[zulchzulu]

5. It's hilarious how some Teabaggers are sending hateful emails and leaving phone messages

That stuff is traceable. Very. Traceable.

It just shows you how utterly stupid these people are.

[lunatica]

2. And they bandy words like Nazi and Socialism like they have a clue

Anyone who calls Obama a Hitler or a Nazi is just plain ignorant to the extreme. Most people I know, even ones who aren't radicals don't know practically anything about history. On this forum we're much more aware of history. They aren't. Most don't even know about the Holocaust. Most don't even know about the Vietnam war. They're just repeating what they been told to say.

[conscious evolution]

4. You know whats really scary?

I met some kids the other day who had no idea who Andy Taylor and Barney Fife were.
Thats scary.

[Mz Pip]

3. Stupid, maybe

but what always stood out to me is how fucking smug they all are. Like they are in on some big secret, some big truth and those who disagree are just _____________(insert RW nasty label of the week.) Not much for critical thinking.

[Dappleganger]

6. It's epithet, hon...

An epiteph is what will be on their tombstone. ;)

[zulchzulu]

7. Gracias!

Spanish drives illiterate xenophobes crazy!

[rufus dog]

8. Did you watch the summit at Blair House?

Not one friggen time did one of those wimps use "Democrat Party"

It is almost impossible not to have them use the word on any TV station, including MSNBC. (Lindsey Graham is one I have noticed doesn't use it and McCain didn't .. Last Year)

Why didn't they use it with Obama, Biden, and the other Democratic Reps?

[July]

9. Wow, that is very interesting.

I thought they had trained themselves to consider it a mortal sin to use "Democratic" when it is called for.

Shows how very petty they are, given that they can turn it on and off. It's also VERY interesting that they seem to have a fear of going too far, which I'd never credited them with before.

Wish I had seen that.

[zulchzulu]

10. I've seen Lindsey Graham use "the Democrat Party" whenever he's on Fox News

My stomach couldn't take actually having to go get some footage of him whimpering to hear him say his usual claptrap. I'm even certain McCain used "Democrat Party" in 2008 too in some of his more "fiery" get-off-my-lawn screeds.

[mariawr]

11. Well, 'rethuglican' seems to have caught on too.....nt

[gkhouston]

12. Never forget that "stupid cowards" can throw bricks in the middle of the night,

or carry loaded guns, or cut gas lines, or build bombs. Incompetently violent people may not hit the correct target, but that doesn't mean they won't hit some target.

[southernyankeebelle]

13. Don't dismiss these people. Some of the outrage we on the left share. We just differ

on the approach. Allot of these people have been working for years and years and feel no one is listening to them because many are lower middle class or working poor. I know many of these people that are basically good people but uninformed. Some don't like the racists and hate towards government. I would consider some that would just want to be heard. Many of these people you make fun of work long hours in service jobs. They want a break and not a handout. They may not be able to express themselves well but still have rights.

[FSogol]

14. I agreed. n/t

[Better Today]

15. Stupid, broad brush painting you're doing there.

And that type of painting will encourage most to underestimate Teapartiers' ability to nudge and push, as is already evident, imo. Given the "stupid" tags that have been given them all along, I wouldn't have thought they'd make such influence on the Repubs. Granted the "joe on the street" followers of Teaparty have some of what you describe involved, but clearly there is more to them than your description, more money, more power, and so on. The people you describe couldn't keep something like this alive as long as they have.

If you want to rant, you need to be ranting against the real TeaPartiers, those that are financing these "stupids." That's where the real danger lies, imo.

[zulchzulu]

16. I've met the people I wrote about.

The Tea Party movement is actually overblown by the media. They aren't that big and they aren't effective at all. And yes, they are stupid.

I've met a few on the street that perfectly fit what I described.

And yes, they are usually loners and cowards.

[Better Today]

17. I didn't say you didn't meet whom you met, though they couldn't have been

Teapartiers in 07-08 because it didn't exist then. What I said was that the few you mention do not fairly represent them all. Some are apparently quite politically and socially astute, otherwise they wouldn't be finding ways to stay so prominent in the media. Now whether it's because some own the media, or pay the media, or what???, since it seems there are a number of reasons why they stay prominent, the facts remain that those you are describing are actually sadly being duped by the real power behind the Teapartiers to do the dirty work while the real powers stay pristinely out of the way.