Dear tea partiers

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Dear Tea Partiers...

Suck it.

X Polnut


ps... hard...

pps... I do feel sorry for sane Republicans...

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I'd bet Stenny Hoyer is the happiest man in Washington now since he won't have to deal with the Queen as Speaker.....

[President Mitt]

Thanks so much for delivering the NV, DE, and most likely, CO senate races. We, literally, could not have done it without you. Please keep nominating your fine candidates. Sarah Palin would make a great GOP presidential nomineee.

x memphis

So KY and FL were guaranteed pub victories without any Tea influence?  

uh...Yeah.

[afleitch]

Are there any teabaggers on this board?

Probably AFleitch or Brittain. However, I'm sure their are several Tea Party supporters around here.

NO

I am extremely apposed to the movement and do not support the GOP at any rate.

[Platypus]

Are there any teabaggers on this board?

Probably AFleitch or Brittain. However, I'm sure their are several Tea Party supporters around here.

NO

I am extremely apposed to the movement and do not support the GOP at any rate.

What do you, brittain and myself have in common?

Now read the post again.

[??????????]

Are there any teabaggers on this board?

Probably AFleitch or Brittain. However, I'm sure their are several Tea Party supporters around here.

NO

I am extremely apposed to the movement and do not support the GOP at any rate.

What do you, brittain and myself have in common?

Now read the post again.

Terrible joke I admit but I hate that pejorative being used.

[??????????]

Of course. Meek would get demolished by Crist badly, if Crist were Republican nominee and if there would be just Rubio v. Crist, with Meek useless ass out of contest, Crist would win as well.

What makes you so sure of that? Crist and Meek only won five counties combined in Florida.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Rubio got nearly 50% of the vote. I'm having trouble figuring out why some of you think either Crist or Meeks may have won if the other wasn't in the race. You assume black turnout would be just as high with Crist running without Meek etc.. The Tea Party did not deliver Florida or Kentucky for the GOP. They did, however, lose Delaware, Colorado and Nevada. Did anyone actually follow some of Buck's comments? He was as crazy as Angle and O'Donnell.

[angus]

Terrible joke I admit but I hate that pejorative being used.

A few months ago, I tried to argue that some intentionally conflated the terms "teabagger" and "tea party people" or "tea party members," but the poster to whom I directed my diatribe played stupid.  Acted like he didn't know what I was talking about.  I'm absolutely convinced the media types do this intentionally.  Olberman and such.  They get a sly grin when they use the term teabagger to describe tea party supporters, knowing full well that teabagging is a consensual sexual act between two people, one of whom has to be a man, and it has nothing to do with the tea party.

That said, teabagging does not equal gay.  Many straights enjoy teabagging.  So it was a terrible joke, but it was a valid point.

Note that memphis used "tea partiers" in the thread title, to his credit.

[J. J.]

Are there any teabaggers on this board?

Probably AFleitch or Brittain. However, I'm sure their are several Tea Party supporters around here.

NO

I am extremely apposed to the movement and do not support the GOP at any rate.

Weren't you the guy who talked about change Obama was going to bring?

[Platypus]

Are there any teabaggers on this board?

Probably AFleitch or Brittain. However, I'm sure their are several Tea Party supporters around here.

NO

I am extremely apposed to the movement and do not support the GOP at any rate.

Weren't you the guy who talked about change Obama was going to bring?

Change like ending federal employment discrimination against gay people?

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

You guys know when I said "teabaggers" I ment tea party members, right?

[Vepres]

I'd actually argue that yes, FL and KY would have gone Republican without the tea party, and Reid would have been defeated had anyone but Angle been nominated. We all know Castle would have beaten Coons, regardless of what Sarah Palin claims.

Without the turnout and narrative that the Tea Party delivered, Pubs might not have even won the House.

lol

Seriously, there is no reason to believe the Republicans would have won 60 House seats without the Tea Party.

[Storebought]

I can't imagine how the GOP machine, as constituted, in 2008 could have ever been able to retake the House in one term without the Tea Party.

The Tea Party firing Specter and keeping Crist out of the Senate are worth gold. I am disappointed in the NV race, but I am not upset about DE. Both the GOP and the Tea Party candidates were inferior.

That notwithstanding, Tea Party seriously needs to work on stronger candidate selection (I mentioned as much in an old comment).

[memphis]

I can't imagine how the GOP machine, as constituted, in 2008 could have ever been able to retake the House in one term without the Tea Party.

The same way they did in 1994.

[Storebought]

I can't imagine how the GOP machine, as constituted, in 2008 could have ever been able to retake the House in one term without the Tea Party.

The same way they did in 1994.

Which had the benefit of a Gingrich, an Armey, and a Delay.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

I can't imagine how the GOP machine, as constituted, in 2008 could have ever been able to retake the House in one term without the Tea Party.

The same way they did in 1994.

Which had the benefit of a Gingrich, an Armey, and a Delay.

The Republicans this time had
1. a really bad recession
2. a friendly media
3. an incompetent Democratic President
4. Citizens United and the Chamber of Commerce

[Storebought]

I can't imagine how the GOP machine, as constituted, in 2008 could have ever been able to retake the House in one term without the Tea Party.

The same way they did in 1994.

Which had the benefit of a Gingrich, an Armey, and a Delay.

The Republicans this time had
1. a really bad recession
2. a friendly media
3. an incompetent Democratic President
4. Citizens United and the Chamber of Commerce

No 1 is true.

No 2 is false. Coverage of the Tea Party swung from neglect, to dismissal ("Astroturf"), to derision ("Teabag") throughout 2009. The GOP was, and is now, routinely implored to ignore them.

No 3 is debatable.

No 4 is moot. The GOP was outspent this time.

[bullmoose88]

I can't imagine how the GOP machine, as constituted, in 2008 could have ever been able to retake the House in one term without the Tea Party.

The same way they did in 1994.

Which had the benefit of a Gingrich, an Armey, and a Delay.

The Republicans this time had
1. a really bad recession
2. a friendly media
3. an incompetent Democratic President
4. Citizens United and the Chamber of Commerce

No 4 is moot. The GOP was outspent this time.

Wait...Assuming citizens united went the other way (rightly or wrongly), wouldnt the fact the spending gap between Ds and Rs would have been bigger than it was, played a major role here?  Sure the GOP was outspent, but couldn't it have been worse?  And the results modified accordingly?

[Badger]

Dear Tea Partiers...

Suck it.

X Polnut


ps... hard...

pps... I do feel sorry for sane Republicans...

X  Badger

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

You guys know when I said "teabaggers" I ment tea party members, right?

An average Republican, ca. 2010