Teabaggers Still Trying To Talk Tough

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

If you buy the biblical spin of the Religious Right folks -- that make up the bulk of the Tea Party movement -- the implication is clear: Jesus will soon return, send all Democrats, gays, blacks, progressives, liberals, college-educated unbelievers, etc., to Hell, while saving what Sarah Palin calls "us" "Real Americans" -- in other words unreconstructed frightened and resentful white lower middle class Americans.

(As a former right wing evangelical anti-abortion leader who built a good career from these folks -- until I quit in disgust with myself, the anti-American nature of the movement and the takeover the Republican Party by extremists -- I know of what I speak.)

If you put the secular/right's "tree-of-Liberty-must-be-watered-by-the-blood-of-tyrants-Timothy McVeigh spin on the Judgment Day scenario; then there will soon be a hoped for bloody day of reckoning for the occupant of the White House.

If you put the Republican Party/Rupert Murdoch/Fox News spin on Judgment Day; then it's the old game trotted out once again: stir up the malcontent and get them to defeat their own self interest in the name of flag, country, God, babies, free enterprise -- and support the corporate interests that profit from village idiots, say by defeating health care reform.

When the Tea Party folks say they want to "take back our country" who do they want to take it back from? It turns out it's going to be taken back from the democratic process itself. The effort here is to reverse the last election result.

In this scenario any time there is not a white, wealthy, far right Republican in the White House and any time Congress isn't controlled by the far (white) right of the Republican Party, then the country has been "stolen" from "us" "Real Americans."

Since democracy is not so easily undone, the implication is that to "take back" America must needs involve, not votes but "Judgment Day." In the view of the right Democracy Herself has failed "we" good God-fearing, "birther" "deather" "he lied!" "Obama is Hitler!" Americans. So we must now turn to "other means."

First Tea Parties then Judgment Day. Get it?

What do you think "We Real Americans" have all those guns for?



http://www.alternet.org/rights/14355...licit_rhetoric

[Atheist Icon]

Hate to break it to you Grab...but there hasn't been a person in the white house that reflects the values of most americans in quite some time.

Put whatever spin on it you want, but most americans want to their country to get out of whatever wars we are in, stop spending(excessive), lower taxes, limited govt, etc. Most of them are not racist and have felt that way for a long time. At least a couple of years for me.

Just because americans have that view does not make them racist biggots, god fearing, KKK suppporting, gay hating, etc.

[don webb]

It looks like conservatives do indeed live in a separate world from liberals Grab.......:usa2:

Sorry, but the stats continue to show a differnt story than yours...........:crackhead:


A new Pew Political IQ test conducted over the phone with 1,002 adults shows Republicans Consistently More Knowledgeable, Independants place 2nd and guess who brings up the "Rear"................:nana:.


CHEERS...........:beerchug:


http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1378/pol...est&proj=forum

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[mountain_rage]

It looks like conservatives do indeed live in a separate world from liberals Grab.......:usa2:

Sorry, but the stats continue to show a differnt story than yours...........:crackhead:


A new Pew Political IQ test conducted over the phone with 1,002 adults shows Republicans Consistently More Knowledgeable, Independants place 2nd and guess who brings up the "Rear"................:nana:.


CHEERS...........:beerchug:


http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1378/pol...est&proj=forum

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Can already tell you its a biased poll since one of the questions asked who Glenn Beck is, which is irrelevant to someones knowledge. It is also an organization funded by Conservatives with the intention of bolstering public support in free market mentality and conservative ideals.

[Drew Wilson]

A new Pew Political IQ test conducted over the phone with 1,002 adults shows Republicans Consistently More Knowledgeable, Independants place 2nd and guess who brings up the "Rear"................:nana:.


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You can't seriously be relying on an over the phone IQ test result to prove something, can you?

[YWD67]

He relies mostly on bloggers and other wannabe news sites as his source of misinformation.
So why is it so hard to believe he would not consider an unscientific phone poll as a factual representation of the populace.
Come on Drew, to logicaly think on don's level you would have to knock off about 100 points of your IQ.

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

Hate to break it to you Grab...but there hasn't been a person in the white house that reflects the values of most americans in quite some time.

If you had bothered to read my post you would have seen that we are not talking about "most Americans", we are talking about tea baggers.

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

Sorry, but the stats continue to show a differnt story than yours...........:crackhead:


A new Pew Political IQ test conducted over the phone with 1,002 adults shows Republicans Consistently More Knowledgeable, Independants place 2nd and guess who brings up the "Rear"................:nana:.

lol @ over the phone IQ test constituting "the stats". You really are a hoot don.

[mountain_rage]

Tea baggers are just mad because after years of sucking on massive elephant testicles, donkey balls just don't cut it.

[don webb]

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Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

The news media swoons in admiration -- one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: "Why don't you show some respect?!" The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: "Embracing change is never easy."

So, does that sound like anyone you know?.. :dunno:

Oh, wait -- did I mention the leader is secretly a totalitarian space lizard who's come here to eat us?

Welcome to ABC's "V," the most fascinating and bound to be the most controversial new show of the fall television season. Nominally a rousing sci-fi space opera about alien invaders bent on the conquest (and digestion) of all humanity, it's also a barbed commentary on Obamamania that will infuriate the president's supporters and delight his detractors.

"We're all so quick to jump on the bandwagon," observes one character. "A ride on the bandwagon, it sounds like fun. But before we get on, let us at least make sure it is sturdy."

Obama could not be reached for comment, as he was too busy admiring his reflection in a well-polished spoon.

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