Tea Party Primaries Percolating Nationally

Tea Party? Full-of-Vociferous-Shit Party.

They would not be true teabaggers if they knew how to spell "judgment."

Can't these morans spell!! Just unbelievable. Oh, and I forgot, the GOP capturing the state houses in Virginia and New Jersey was because of the tea baggers. RRRRRight!

Christina, I hope you'll cover what's going on in PA-15. Charlie Dent is one of the DCCC's top targets, and the Dem candidate John Callahan, Bethlehem mayor, was personally recruited by Joe Biden. Dent has two teabaggers to deal with - a primary from activist Mathew Benol, and a third-party Independent bid from activist Jake Towne. Double-baggin!

The best moment in future Tea Party history will be when they storm Florida and throw Charlie Crist in the water.

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We laugh at these people, but they are motivated to "take back their government," whatever that means. Democratic voters are tired and aren't motivated. Plus, we have a compliant press. The teabaggers could possibly win.

Okay, TPM -- just for the record -- I appreciate puns as a rule, but tea does not "percolate." Coffee can percolate, sometimes. But tea steeps.

They may wrap their rhetoric in the flag, but what their argument really boils down to is that they don't want to pay taxes - for any reason. Since they also would never give up the social services that benefit them directly, like fire and police departments, roads, bridges, and traffic lights, municipal water and sewage systems, and so on their argument really seems to boil down to "I got mine, f*ck you."

I don't understand why you folks are blaming the TEA party for your failures.

You won. Remember? Of course, I do find it rather curious that people of such "superior intellect" would fail to consult with those most in touch with the daily economic engine of this country. But, hey. Small business isn't as glamorous as Wall street banksters and multi-national corps.

Instead, entrepreneurs from across the nation are reacquainting themselves with Ayn Rand and attending TEA parties that provide endless opportunities for jocularity at the expense of the alleged intellects.

"...and that we allow freedom and liberty to really be proclaimed..."

What the hey does that even mean?

I think Palin and the Teabaggers are the best thing to happen in US politics in recent years. In fact, I plan to donate to a number of their races.

Then I'll sit back and watch the parasitic larvae consume its host--the old school BobDole-type "Money Republican" party from within. Delicious!

Yesterday on my way to work I passed the Post Office and there was a small group set up with a table and big posters of Obama with a Hitler moustache. This was in Kingston, Massachusetts! I am not sure if they were Teabaggers of Lyndon Larouchians. The LaRouche people--among the most vile and vicious nutbags--have glommed on to the Tea Party almost since the beginning, and claim that that image of Obama as Hitler is theirs. So I suspect that all the extremist groups are attaching themselves to the Tea Party as a recruiting ground and to get the Tea Party "buzz". It will be interesting to see how the Tea Party and the GOP deal with people in their own ranks that even they revile. I wish someone in the media--maybe here at TPM--would do a story on LaRouche and the Teabaggers.

So far, most of the news and opinion I've seen at TPM frames the Tea Party movement as an unruly crowd of strange fools worthy of little more than mockery. However deserved that reputation, progressive commentator Thom Hartmann suggests that this movement is the closest thing we have now to a real revolution in this country. I agree with him.

Last night I posted a ditty shortly after JM flagged this important story by Christina Bellantoni. In it I attempt to reframe the context for Tea Party discussions. My assessment may seem strange and foolish, but I hope it is at least a little fun. Anyone who is interested can read "New Year's tea with the ghost of Teddy Roosevelt" at my blog.

I think we should embrace these guys.
1. We probably agree with them on what the problems are more than you might think.
2. They will win elections -- for Democrats -- as they split the Republican/Libertarian vote.
3. Their heads will explode when we join them in common cause of preserving the bill of rights, taking our country back (we may not agree from whom), Kelo, etc.
They can't really be fond of the banksters, skimmers, and swindlers, can they?
They have the same blind faith in Palin as some of us did in Obama -- I mean, they are not really much change from their respective party's mainstream, but we want them to be.
Too bad they think they hate liberals. We'd have a lot in common, if they'd quit watching Fox and start using their noodles.