But when they booed Cornyn and Perry, it showed that the Republicans who have attempted to jump on the back of that particular tiger are now wondering how they can get off. I think they understand now that it is a movement that they can’t control.

Oh, and on the tea bag reference? I’m an old fart. I didn’t know until about a week after the Tea Party people began waving tea bags around, and after THEY had referred to themselves as teabaggers, that there was a salacious meaning to the term. Here I was, talking about teabaggers, and not realizing that I was, unknowingly, being way cooler than my kids probably think I am. But it was not intentional. I guess I just don’t get out much any more.

D’oh! Should have read= “actual actions or policies”

It isn’t any supposed “partisanship” of these groups that bothers me; heck they boo Republicans too (this is from Huffington Post, so perhaps you’ll have to take it likewise with a grain of salt):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/06/cornyn-booed-called-trait_n_226110.html

No, what bugs me about the Teabaggers is their unique combination of raw, unfocused self-righteousness with the fact that they have no idea what the hell they’re talking about. The actual text of their complaints are laughably transparent and insincere. These folks are dumb and mad, and they’re looking for something to be mad AT. It would be funny if it weren’t also kind of scary.

Plus, all the stupid code-word dog-whistle bullshit drives me CRAZY. (i.e. saying “Socialist President” to actually mean “Black President”) when they clear lack both a working definition of Socialism and any information about Obama’s actual information or policies.

These folks are contributing absolutely nothing of value to public discourse; they’re not there to state a case or make an argument, they’re there to yell and get angry and feel self-righteous about their opinions, however misinformed and foolish those “opinions” may be. The best thing to do is just ignore them, I think.

For the record, there are “protests” and causes put on by folks on the left which annoy me for many of the same reasons, although I may agree with some of their root intentions. It’s just that the nutjobs on the right wing tend to remind me uncomfortably of a lynch mob, whereas the most danger the lefties ever offer is the threat that they might get really stoned and go home.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/06/video-sen-cornyn-gets-an-earful/

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/18/another-republican-booed-by-tea-party-protesters/

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/california-tea-party-to-california-gop-smackdown/

I’m not sure why I’m defending these people… I’m not much of a protester myself, but I just think they have been given a bad rap and it’s fun and interesting to see people engaged and exercising their rights to peaceably assemble. Peace, Waldo.

Dunno. Maybe just “protesters.”

That’s really not helpful. There are many kinds of protestors. These are a particular group of people who warrant identification as a distinct group.

I have no interest in interviewing this bunch. (I’m not in the habit of interview anybody for my blogs, anyhow. The skill set that allows somebody to write has nothing in common with the skill set that allows somebody to conduct a useful interview.) This is a group of people who believe that all taxes are bad and that government is inherently evil. Based on the videos I’ve seen on TV and on blogs, the average IQ of attendees isn’t too far above room temperature. They’ve got little to no understanding of how governments, societies, or economies work. If they actually believed what they claim to believe, they’d live in Siberia.

Maybe you could try interviewing that head guy… Bob Hay or something. (Bald, kind of big, talks with a little bit of a lisp) I’ve seen him on some of the local news channels. I bet he’d probably be open to a small interview for cvillenews or here.

Instead of just using your blog to take shots at them, you could get it from the horse’s mouth. Ask him why in the world they would call Perriello a “traitor,” etc.

I’ve ranted on the teabagger movement before and my opinion hasn’t changed radically. While there is quite a bit of resentment over the policies of the Obama Administration, in reality there is very little that has changed in real, tangible ways since the Bush Administration.

Using the tactics of the loon on the left just makes you a loon of the right. Besides, the fact that most of the teabagging organizers go to great lengths to stress how non-political they intend to be illustrates they are not serious about real change… and therefore lose otherwise sympathetic ears such as my own.

The best way to change things is to participate in the political process. I don’t care if that’s with the two major parties, as a third party, as a PAC, as a grassroots organization, or as a block of concerned citizens.

Just venting outrage without an objective? Ludicrous… unless someone is willing to show how either Perriello changed his mind, or how something was gained (making press doesn’t count).

So if you aren’t sniggling over saying something dirty, why call them “teabaggers”? I assume you are aware of what “teabagging” is, right?

But being so cutesy (and sniggling in the corner ’cause you said something dirty) by calling them teabaggers, and “the future of the Republican Party”, etc. is stupid.

Stick with the few middle paragraphs and omit the sillyness. Else you come off as the one saying “fuck you” and not being open to any debate.

“Sniggling in the corner”? “Not open to any debate”? Dude, you don’t know me at all.

It’s OK to call people names when they are saying bad things about your guy- nope not being a hypocrite at all.

You are confused. Re-read the blog entry. I didn’t say that there’s anything wrong with calling Perriello names, I said that it’s “politically…an awfully foolish approach” because he’s “an officeholder.” It’s not bad, it’s ineffective. Also, none of these dopes are elected officials.

(however stealing bits from John Stewart after making national news for calling out someone else for the same thing is very bad)

That would be difficult to do, since he has not (to my knowledge) said anything about this protest. I can’t see how he could have—it was just held yesterday, at 4 PM, which I think is when he tapes his show.