
Is there a fake tea party brewing in Nevada? Tea partiers who have declared Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) public enemy No. 1 sure seem to think so.
The Tea Party of Nevada formed an official third party in the Silver State, with candidate Jon Ashjian hoping to defeat Reid. But tea party groups that oppose becoming official third parties cried foul. Some conservatives have even accused Ashjian of being a front for Reid supporters who hope to dilute the Republican and tea party votes in the fall.
Twenty of Nevada's self-proclaimed "grassroots tea party groups" signed a statement denouncing the Tea Party of Nevada. The groups issued a blanket ban, saying the third party won't be invited to or welcome at any grassroots events in the state.
The Tea Party Nation jumped on board with the Tea Party of Nevada-bashing, saying the group is infringing on their "TPN" acronym.
"It has recently come to our attention that an email is circulating referring to the newly established liberal-funded Tea Party of Nevada as TPN. This email repeatedly disparages the Tea Party group using the acronym TPN," Tea Party Nation organizers wrote members in an email, obtained by TPMDC as a member of the mailing list.
Sherry Phillips, vice president of the Tea Party Nation group, asked members to "make any and all attempts to correct this misinformation," reminding them the group "is against the formation of a third party political party."
After the group filed its formation in Nevada, several groups balked and news reports looking into Ashjian prompted accusations the group's founders are "imposters."
Some who question the legitimacy of the group point to the political leanings of its secretary, Las Vegas attorney Barry Levinson. He is reportedly a registered Democrat and has criticized former President George W. Bush.
Ashjian got the Las Vegas Sun treatment last week, with the article's first sentence insisting the candidate is no "stooge" for Reid. "This elitist crowd doesn't have any clue about the pain and suffering experienced by the average American. ... Every small-business owner is in the same boat," Ashjian told the Sun. We've been looking for his campaign Web site, but can't find one.
Tea Party of Nevada sure sounds legitimate after quick check of their bylaws, found here. Among their "core principles" is this line: "We believe in personal responsibility and oppose government run health care and socialized medicine."
This is brewing as the Tea Party Express plans a major push to try and defeat Reid. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Andrew Breitbart and Joe the Plumber are slated to appear at the rally in Reid's hometown of Searchlight, Nevada at the end of this month.
Though polls show the official tea party group helps Reid, he is in trouble no matter which candidate Republicans choose. The TPM Polltracker shows Reid losing to the top Republican conteners.
counter coulter
March 15, 2010 10:00 AM
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bvd
March 15, 2010 11:00 AM in reply to counter coulter
Just as soon as Obama stops trying to replace their private Medicare with government-run Medicare.
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concerned parent
March 15, 2010 11:13 AM in reply to bvd
Hmmm, isn't the current medicare a government program?
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Bruce Webb
March 15, 2010 11:17 AM in reply to concerned parent
Hmm, isn't irony dead?
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s9
March 15, 2010 2:56 PM in reply to Bruce Webb
Yes, but it hasn't stopped moving yet. Shoot it again.
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BruceMajors
March 15, 2010 11:25 AM in reply to concerned parent
Yes many sectors of society are state monopolies seized by the tax predator ruling class with the tax serfs made dependent on them. And then after you loot the people for years you threaten to cut off their water, their retirement funds. their kids' schools, their fire protection, if they dare to oppose your schemes.
That is why you must all be sent to the guillotine, after a fair trial before the citizens' tribunals.
I hope to operate the one that takes off your head, quisling.
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Morbo
March 15, 2010 2:38 PM in reply to BruceMajors
Nice eliminationist talk, you fucking loon.
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March 16, 2010 2:13 AM in reply to BruceMajors
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counter coulter
March 15, 2010 11:26 AM in reply to bvd
Oops...forgot about the "keep the government out of my Medicare" crowd. Good catch.
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AhTrini1
March 15, 2010 12:27 PM in reply to counter coulter
I am confused, isn't a claim to fame of the teabaggers is that they have Democrats in their ranks? Why now, IF a Democrat is a secretary of a newly formed teabag group, is it an imposter group!?!?!?!? Maybe because teabaggers are republicans who claim they are really 'independent'?
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counter coulter
March 15, 2010 12:57 PM in reply to AhTrini1
Maybe because teabaggers are republicans who claim they are really 'independent'?
That's exactly who they are; the boohoo party who believed patriotism meant absolute presidential power until they lost an election and decided that what patriotism really means is an embrace of anarchy.
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masanf
March 17, 2010 11:04 PM in reply to counter coulter
Kind of like the clowns on the left who told us that dissent was the highest form of patriotism until it meant criticizing Obama, at which point it became racist.
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Adrian Browne
March 15, 2010 10:59 AM
Paranoia: the ants at the Tea Party picnic.
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expat46
March 15, 2010 11:02 AM
If you want to find out whether the tea bag movement is a subsidiary of GOP just mention a third party. The subject is verboten, they start freaking out at the mere mention of the subject.
The tea bag movement itself is a cover for the GOP. They can talk about free markets, less regulation smaller government and personal responsibility without having to answer questions regarding the effects those beliefs have brought us over the last 30 years. Forget George Bush, we're not Republicans we're the Tea Bag movement.
If you believe that you must be smoking your tea.
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mcrose68
March 15, 2010 1:54 PM in reply to expat46
You hit the nail on the head.
The Tea Party Nation is a pretty thinly veiled attempt to hold onto Republicans who are embarassed by The Republican Party.
It remains to be seen if these guys are really as stupid as Karl Rove said they are.
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BruceMajors
March 15, 2010 11:05 AM
How is Obamacare like a stool sample?
You have to pass it to see what’s in it.
Public flushing on March 16
http://teaparty.freedomworks.org/events/march-16th-the-peoples-surge?id=3578713:Event:68714&page=3#comments
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concerned parent
March 15, 2010 11:15 AM in reply to BruceMajors
If anyone knows about stool samples, its definitely the gop. They are full of them.
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BruceMajors
March 15, 2010 11:22 AM in reply to concerned parent
Yes crazy Massa, bribe taking Dodd, tax cheating Rangel, lying Pelosi, land dealing Reid, pimping Frank, cash freezing Jefferson -- so many turds in the GOP.
Dumb cooter.
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Hank
March 15, 2010 11:45 AM in reply to BruceMajors
Crawl back into your hole you communist wretch.
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Red XIV
March 15, 2010 10:35 PM in reply to BruceMajors
Ah, a FreedomWorks shill in our midst. How cute.
The true astroturf nature of the Tea Party (Bowel) Movement.
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March 16, 2010 2:14 AM in reply to BruceMajors
See "Troll Alert: Bruce Majors, Nasty Fellow":
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March 16, 2010 2:18 AM in reply to BruceMajors
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Leftflank
March 15, 2010 11:05 AM
The Tea Party Express, AKA-The Cash Cow Tour, will send out the salt of the earth to get Reid. The Three Failed Amigos; Breitbert, Palin & Plumber, whom actually give the phony grassroots movement a worse name.
What part of being used as props don't the tea-baggers get? Their "for-profit" heroes will gain from their useful idiocy until the cash flow ceases, then they'll be dropped like a hot rock until they're idiocy becomes useful again.
There ain't no tea, it ain't no party & the express is a long way from Boston.
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Matt Jones
March 15, 2010 11:07 AM
I love it - the teabaggers INSIST that they are "non-partisan", then jump all over the leader of another group for the unforgivable sin of being a registered Democrat.
Which one is it, teabaggers?
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BruceMajors
March 15, 2010 11:16 AM in reply to Matt Jones
It's funny to read comments from you airheaded leftover fascists.
Always so retarded.
Last year you said there were no tea partiers. Then your whores like Madcow said there were people actually protesting, but they never protested under Bush so they just didn't like a black President. Then Madcow interviews Ron Paul last month and attributes the tea party movement to his movement and his rallies in 2008, long before Odumbo was nominated.
Now you cretins are here discussing the tea party saying "they" did this or that. Yawn. You dumb mofos.
The tea party is the soon to be revolutionary edge of the tax serfs, rebelling against the tax predator ruling class you flak for. There is no monolothic "they" that believe one thing or another anymore than the gay community or home schoolers etc have one mind.
But they ARE opposed to your leaders' wag the dog distractions to save themselves. They intend to take you all out. You must all be tried, then beaten, stripped, your homes seized and returned to the taxpayers, your bloody naked bodies ejected across the border, stripped of citizenship and exiled forever.
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concerned parent
March 15, 2010 11:21 AM in reply to BruceMajors
Now we are fascists? What happened to being socialists or marxists? Come on, pick an -ism and stick to it.
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BruceMajors
March 15, 2010 11:28 AM in reply to concerned parent
You poor retard. Your own Susan Sontag told you 20 years ago that you were fascists because Marxism was fascism.
But as a leftover trog you are always behind the times.
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expat46
March 15, 2010 11:33 AM in reply to BruceMajors
Uh oh...you used the "r" word. You had better go make amends to your leader caribou barbie. Maybe you can explain to her that you were only using satire.
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BruceMajors
March 15, 2010 11:51 AM in reply to expat46
Sorry monkey. You peeps have leaders whom you parrot. I don't. While I am sure Ms. Palin is superior to you in many, many ways, and also superior to your heroes Letterman and all your other rapist wannabes, she isn't where I get my information.
Is this all you flabby assed bitches have in defense of your regime as it destroys the economy and causes a great depression. "Booossshhh!" "Paaallliinn!" You turds are proof that we can defund all the universities. Like the public schools, they just churn out illiterate morons who have no skills.
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expat46
March 15, 2010 11:55 AM in reply to BruceMajors
I see you skipped your Dale Carnegie class. You are one nasty little troll.
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Hank
March 15, 2010 11:47 AM in reply to BruceMajors
At least I am not a communist like you, commie. Go back to China where you can worship Mao without having to hide under your bed.
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JohnW1141
March 15, 2010 12:48 PM in reply to BruceMajors
BruceM,
I'm curious, why aren't you embarrassed to post the things you do?
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lousgirl84
March 15, 2010 12:54 PM in reply to BruceMajors
Actually we are having a lot of fun reading yours. You are hysterical!!
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Red XIV
March 15, 2010 10:46 PM in reply to BruceMajors
You call us fascists then go into a stream of fascist psycho threats against all political opposition to your "movement". And you don't even recognize what a flaming hypocrite you are.
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TrollAlert
March 16, 2010 2:15 AM in reply to BruceMajors
See "Troll Alert: Bruce Majors, Nasty Fellow":
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BruceMajors
March 15, 2010 11:07 AM
Poor walking cadaver Harry Reid shouldn't run fake tea party candidates to split the opposition vote against him.
Someone might drop a plane on him.
They already dropped a truck on his family.
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expat46
March 15, 2010 11:13 AM in reply to BruceMajors
Hey asshole, your attempt at humor might play well at redstate but not so much over here.
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BruceMajors
March 15, 2010 11:20 AM in reply to expat46
I realize you leftover baitches are too stupid to get humor. And like your turd of a Prez, thin skinned whiny little girls whenever anyone criticizes you or makes a joke about you.
We're coming for you anyway termites. Do you want to be exiled to the arctic or the antarctic when we overthrow your fascist regime?
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concerned parent
March 15, 2010 11:25 AM in reply to BruceMajors
No, not communist, terrorist. As of course defined by your favorite prez bush.
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BruceMajors
March 15, 2010 11:31 AM in reply to concerned parent
Please you dumb twat. Get some new parrot points. Can't that stimulus slush fund buy you some writers asswipe?
No one said anything about Bush. Your silly punk Obamie is just Bush in blackface. And you dripping holes have nothing to say in defense of your Mussolini except "Bush did it too." You whores are too stupid to live.
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concerned parent
March 15, 2010 11:36 AM in reply to BruceMajors
Thank you for proving my point, this tea bag is for you!
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georgecs
March 15, 2010 12:26 PM in reply to BruceMajors
Wow, but someone is certainly angry. Sad that you're too dumb to realize the Republican leadership who have been manipulating you into being angry at immigrants, the poor, welfare queens, liberals, socialists, the IRS, the media, etc., etc., etc. for for last thirty years are actually the ones who have been happily screwing you out of everything all the while lying to your face and laughing their collective asses off while you go chasing after straw men. I've been to their country clubs. They're living it up at your expense.
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terje
March 15, 2010 1:41 PM in reply to BruceMajors
You might want to check the terms of use of this site:
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upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available ("Post") any Content:
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Most of your comments are in violation of these terms.
As a "libertarian" I'm sure you appreciate that the owners of this site have the right to establish and enforce their own rules in their private property. If you can't live with that, I expect that you and your Tourette's inspired outbursts will soon be banned from the site.
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SporeTen
March 15, 2010 1:52 PM in reply to terje
I've flagged him multiple times - I suggest others do the same.
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Libertine
March 15, 2010 2:40 PM in reply to BruceMajors
Not that your fascist hero, Bush, along with his thieving buddy Paulson, were the ones ultimately responsible for the bailout. Tea baggers are nothing more than an astroturf operation of the oligarchy to steal even more money from the American taxpayers.
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Verified
March 16, 2010 12:41 AM in reply to BruceMajors
Bruce, men who call people twats usually do so because they are sadly unfamiliar with them in their personal lives.
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March 16, 2010 2:22 AM in reply to BruceMajors
See "Troll Alert: Bruce Majors, Nasty Fellow":
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toxophilite
March 15, 2010 11:28 AM in reply to BruceMajors
Which was the funny part? The part where a freeway accident lands someone's family in intensive care? Yes, I'm laughing myself silly, and so will you when your family is nearly killed.
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expat46
March 15, 2010 11:36 AM in reply to BruceMajors
Here's one for you.
Q: What's the difference between a Republican and a Tea Bagger?
A: The Republican knows when he's lying.
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JohnW1141
March 15, 2010 2:34 PM in reply to BruceMajors
Bruce,
you and your gang of wingnuts tried coming after us once and we sicced Grant and Sherman on you. Are you yearning for deja vu all over again?
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hwmnbn
March 15, 2010 10:57 PM in reply to BruceMajors
You clowns can't even stop healthcare, so you won't be overthrowing SQUAT anytime soon. So sit down, shut up, and stop making a fool of yourself.
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March 16, 2010 2:19 AM in reply to BruceMajors
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concerned parent
March 15, 2010 11:14 AM in reply to BruceMajors
You must be a communist.
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March 16, 2010 2:16 AM in reply to BruceMajors
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Knothead Jake
March 15, 2010 11:08 AM
It's great when they put down their ignorant, racist signage and go after each other. I love it. Can't wait to hear what Ailin Palin,Andrew Not-So BrightTard, and Joe the Dumber have to say at their pow-wow this month.
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storm
March 15, 2010 11:09 AM
just say no to election by plurality.
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destor23
March 15, 2010 11:14 AM
I don't know if this group is phony but it's an awesome idea. I would actually enjoy playing a Tea Party candidate in an election.
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ahumbleopinion
March 15, 2010 11:14 AM
How can they support a third party when they are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party. Wake up tea baggers; you've been had, again.
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destor23
March 15, 2010 11:14 AM
Though now that I think about it, this is totally a job for Sacha Baron Cohen.
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expat46
March 15, 2010 11:49 AM in reply to destor23
or Stephen Colbert
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concerned parent
March 15, 2010 11:17 AM
The tea parties are just a ponzi scheme sprouted from its mother, the gop.
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georgecs
March 15, 2010 12:18 PM
The Tea Bagger morons are pathetic.
They offer no plan, no vision, no road forward, only whining for halcyon days that exist only in their minds. Imagine if the Founders had rallied people to the cause of Liberty not by promising a brighter future, but by promising a return to the imagined idylls of Ancient Greece or Rome. And then went around dressed in tunics to "inspire" the population. They would have been laughed out of the colonies, and we'd all be speaking the King's English right now.
Can we start referring to Tea Baggers as The Unenlightened? Please.
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psyclone
March 15, 2010 12:44 PM
Teabaggers are the gift that keeps on giving. Now they have their own personality purity tests! No Democrats allowed in their 'nonpartisan' movement! Priceless. As if a "fake" tea party group would be any less clownish than the "real" ones.
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Kayak
March 15, 2010 12:54 PM
Check out Brucemaj's facebook page at http://www.linkedin.com/in/homesdc He's a bloodsucking Realtor dealing in foreclosures.
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expat46
March 15, 2010 1:12 PM in reply to Kayak
well, well, what have we here... He even looks like a goose stepping Nazi.
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phillygirl
March 15, 2010 10:08 PM in reply to Kayak
Awwww, Bruce likes pets, urban gardening and, apparently, Canadian women folk singers. I wouldn't buy a house from him, though. And he looks more than a tad overweight.
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Verified
March 16, 2010 12:34 AM in reply to Kayak
I love it that he says he was once a "Fitness Center Concierge". Cenk Uygur is right - young Republicans just ain't gettin' any. And to tell the truth, I had to close the page after just a few seconds. I am really not interested in seeing Bruce's "full profile."
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Kayak
March 15, 2010 1:14 PM
Opps, not Bruce's facebook page (got redirected), but is a revealing biography of a nutjob running around in the real world of DC. Check his Credentials with "Liberty Americas Foundation" on the bio page. I wonder if some of his quotes from here would make some of his references blanch a bit?
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Ben Thinkin
March 15, 2010 1:55 PM
Moderator:
Can you please get rid of the Trolls in this blog?
They are not hard to spot and only disrupt intelligent discourse.
Trying to educate the trolls, or have reasonable dialog, is like trying to teach a pig to sing, It doesn't work and it annoys the pig.
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georgecs
March 15, 2010 3:07 PM in reply to Ben Thinkin
Sorry, but while I am often irritated by the inane, pointless, angry racist rantings of the odd Tea Bagging troll, I violently disagree with silencing them. Would you make them free speech martyrs for their own cause? Would you prove to them that they have no voice? Would you so easily reinforce their view of an intolerant lefty intelligentsia? Are your arguments so weak, or your spine so soft that you cannot swat down or simply ignore the insane, uninformed, pointless, stupid rantings of an obviously inferior intellect?
By all means let them speak. Let them rant. Let them foam at the mouth. Let them screech themselves hoarse for all I care. Because by their every moronic, idiotic, racist, treasonous statement they expose themselves for what they really are. And it is only by exposing them and their poisonous "ideas" can everyone see how truly unhinged and dangerous the Tea Baggers are - and be sickened by them too.
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LindyLou
March 15, 2010 4:00 PM in reply to georgecs
Ditto, ditto, ditto. Well-said!
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cinesimon
March 15, 2010 4:16 PM in reply to georgecs
Remember though, that our right to free speech via the constitution, is only the right to speak without GOVERNMENT interruption or intervention.
This is a privately owned blog. Your free speech argument is about as logical as the tea party platform.
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dem4life
March 15, 2010 2:03 PM
TEABAGGERS ARE SICKENING
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Kayak
March 15, 2010 7:44 PM
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frank kinney
March 15, 2010 8:45 PM
independent conservatives! rally is for america period! reasons change and direction of by both parties in goverment! argument policies and where we are as a people country today! stronger as a nation? secure and prosperious as a people with a bright future ahead of U.S. please? thrid party candidates need only tell the truth and people will support the truth big time! truth unfair unbalace trade! illegal immigration? sanctuary cities? voter fraud and special interest groups? goverment corruption? illegal immigration and cost? no transparency goverment! no accountability goverment? national debt? taxes? goverment states going private in public service tax paid? blast both parties for bringing U.S. to this new world order out of criminal order period. tell it like it lou dobbs ross perot is! the truth and nothing but the truth so help me god! tea parties run by both parties? i can believe move on that hillary clinton supporters group remember that con job! one need only talk about all the issues to get the support of the majority of americans! issues of what we the majoriy of americans want action for which we see no action on time after time administration after administration over and over again! change independent from spike gas prces! change natural gas! american made solar industy factories! clue michigan with the worlds biggest glass industry in my own state? natural gas driven car industry for SUVS trucks tanks cars tractors boats and planes sports utility vehicles change over? underground phone lines? dams instead of nuclear waste plants? goal plants? think american your thinking of U.S. party and look see the arguments for change indeed? infrastructure jobs! yeah leadership is all one needs and get organized to push it! americans sure would get on that band wagon indeed! pickens natural gas plan and lou dobbs ross perot type leadership can't loose! truth justice and the american way indeed! new direction from soylent green conclusion of todays leadership where we loose gain nothing from it! yeah we pay for our own destruction way steele vs van jones! republiCON vs demoCRAP. peace AMEN.
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sammy baby
March 15, 2010 9:12 PM in reply to frank kinney
Listen, children! Eternal father, eternally one! WE'RE ALL ONE OR NONE! EXCEPTIONS ETERNALLY? NONE!!!
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Verified
March 16, 2010 12:38 AM in reply to frank kinney
You must spend a lot of time reading Dr. Bronner's soap bottles.
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Capers
March 15, 2010 9:29 PM
TPN is not an acroym.
But Nevada is certainly some prime Teabag real estate. Their #1 radio talker is a hardcore hate-crimes advocate and they hate Mexicans like normal people love french fries. The battle of the Bags will be a jwinner for Reid, whether he's promoting it or not.
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Verified
March 16, 2010 12:27 AM
To health care professionals, TPN stands for Total Parenteral Nutrition, which these tea baggers would probably not be able to pay for, because they'd be too sick to work. I'd love for someone to actually find out how many of these people are on either Medicare or Medicaid, or how many have actually accepted Medicaid funds to help with their or their families' health care costs.
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TrollAlert
March 16, 2010 9:28 AM
See "Troll Alert: Bruce Majors, Nasty Fellow":
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/t/r/trollalert/2010/03/troll-alert-bruce-majors-nasty.php
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regular_joe
March 16, 2010 9:54 AM
The entire Tea Party "movement" has been a Faux News invention from the start. Sorting out the "imposters" won't be difficult: they're all imposters, the whole movement is fake.
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Tosh
June 6, 2010 2:37 AM
It's funny to read comments from you airheaded leftover fascists.
Always so retarded.
Last year you said there were no tea partiers. Then your whores like Madcow said there were people actually protesting, but they never protested under Bush so they just didn't like a black President. Then Madcow interviews Ron Paul last month and attributes the tea party movement to his movement and his rallies in 2008, long before Odumbo was nominated.
Now you cretins are here discussing the tea party saying "they" did this or that. Yawn. You dumb mofos.
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