Where did the Tea Bag Party folks come from? Here is what I think happened.
They are a splinter group from the lunatic right who were embarrassed by the company they were keeping. They discovered that they were philosophically simpatico with: barely literate screaming preachers who were ordained by D+ divinity 'degree' mills; gun-toting Jew-haters with days of extra beard who can't tell a semite from a Maori tribesman; beer-stinking shit-kickers off the ranches of the deep West whose most romantic experiences have occurred on horseback; various white racist crazies who sleep with Uzis or Ak-47s; high school dropouts with shaved heads who call each other "dudes" and at 24 are still bagging groceries at the Kroger store; fat young women who show their ass cracks and tote dirty little babies under their arms.
The more well to do wackos looked at these fellow travelers and found them to be varieties of white people that are not well dressed, not graduated from the local community college, not discretely tattooed, not polished in any way, foolishly young, unwashed and unsavory, common or even gross. Oh, sure they might share the same chauvenisms, the same sense of racial befuddlement, the same jejune comprehension of "liberty" and "freedom", the same sense of fundamental Christianity, and oh! such a deep deep love of all that is traditional in American life.
So, you form a group that centers its 'sights' on money, which those other groups have little of, and you dress up nicely, and you have a printing shop produce grammatically correct protest signs, and you make heroes out of the shiny simpletons like Beck and Palin, and you go on ocean cruises, and you avoid the thuggish racism or vulgar language of the unsophisticated bigots, and you travel around in chartered buses you sell tickets for.
Now, you have a refined bunch of happy-hour "Conservatives" who look for all the world like they really understand something, not the tawdry mob of gun orgasmics and ethnic crudes who wear gaudy tattoos on their faces and forearms, and have spelling errors on their handouts. You see, you can put lipstick on pigs, and for some folks, that makes them kissable.
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A tea party protester described the crowd in DC a few months ago as "so polite and tidy". I thought they were trying to distinguish themselves from the feral lefty protesting type, but I see now that they are setting themselves apart from their own kind.
Sarah Palin is palling artound with racists !!!
( " bring back literacy tests for voting eligibility " )
That should ensure her getting the black vote in 2012 !!
The Tea Baggers forget(if they ever knew) that the original Tea Party back in 1773(?) was in protest of the English crown cuting taxes on the East India Company(corporation) so that company could drive out the tea "smugglers"(small local businesses) and monopolize(at exorbitant prices) the tea business in the colonies.
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