Palin gives keynote speech at 'tea party' gathering

[Little32]

Didn't know if I should post this here, or start a new thread.

I have been reading about the Tea Party movement and have been trying to understand their general disquiet in a historical context. Is the fear really greater now than it has been at any other point in history, or does the "Tea Party Movement" just make for catchy headlines? If the fear is greater, why so?

I mean, I have some thoughts on the matter, but the historical context would be useful. So if you want to provide particular examples or references, I am all for it.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by Little32

Didn't know if I should post this here, or start a new thread.

I have been reading about the Tea Party movement and have been trying to understand their general disquiet in a historical context. Is the fear really greater now than it has been at any other point in history, or does the "Tea Party Movement" just make for catchy headlines? If the fear is greater, why so?

I mean, I have some thoughts on the matter, but the historical context would be useful. So if you want to provide particular examples or references, I am all for it.

Uh...I guess sometime in the past couple of years, I can't remember if it was pre- or post- 08 election, but 35 states all ratified messures asserting their rights as states and basically telling the federal government to back off, we can handle our own thing. These guys are riding on the coat-tails of that, as that in and of itself seems to be working out. At least for the bigger states (California and New York among them).

That is how I see them anyway, they sprang to life right at that time, and only still exist where such things are popular.

[starang21]

i prefer to call them teabaggers.

[Ghostwriter]

Originally Posted by starang21

i prefer to call them teabaggers.

Why would you use such a pejorative term?

I wouldn't call you a @#$%su*&er because you may or may not be a liberal.

[ThetaDancer]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

Why would you use such a pejorative term?

I wouldn't call you a @#$%su*&er because you may or may not be a liberal.

Ghostwriter,

I've gone over this with you before, but you've completely failed to acknowledge any of my posts. Perhaps you have me on ignore, and if that is the case I apologize for posting this yet again. However, there was a time early in the tea party movement when tea party attendees themselves would call themselves "teabaggers"...eventually, I think they caught on to the double entendre and then it became offensive. I don't care for the term at all and would prefer that it was no one used it...observers or tea party participants...but I think it's a bit ignorant to pretend that tea partiers didn't initially use the term themselves (particularly because I have now informed you of this fact multiple times...you can't act like you didn't know it).

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by ThetaDancer

Ghostwriter,

I've gone over this with you before, but you've completely failed to acknowledge any of my posts. Perhaps you have me on ignore, and if that is the case I apologize for posting this yet again. However, there was a time early in the tea party movement when tea party attendees themselves would call themselves "teabaggers"...eventually, I think they caught on to the double entendre and then it became offensive. I don't care for the term at all and would prefer that it was no one used it...observers or tea party participants...but I think it's a bit ignorant to pretend that tea partiers didn't initially use the term themselves (particularly because I have now informed you of this fact multiple times...you can't act like you didn't know it).

link


(entry) 6. tea bagger


1. A sex act.

2. A phrase Fox News picked to promote a series of "Boston Tea Party" reenactment protests against the Obama administration on Tax Freedom Day, apparently unaware of the meaning of the phrase (see above.)

Fox news watcher: are you going to the tea bagger party?

Me: what are you, some kinda perv?

[Ghostwriter]

Originally Posted by ThetaDancer

Ghostwriter,

I've gone over this with you before, but you've completely failed to acknowledge any of my posts. Perhaps you have me on ignore, and if that is the case I apologize for posting this yet again. However, there was a time early in the tea party movement when tea party attendees themselves would call themselves "teabaggers"...eventually, I think they caught on to the double entendre and then it became offensive. I don't care for the term at all and would prefer that it was no one used it...observers or tea party participants...but I think it's a bit ignorant to pretend that tea partiers didn't initially use the term themselves (particularly because I have now informed you of this fact multiple times...you can't act like you didn't know it).

So are you starang21? That is who I quoted and asked the question of.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

So are you starang21? That is who I quoted and asked the question of.

It read like a rhetorical question.

[ThetaDancer]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

So are you starang21? That is who I quoted and asked the question of.

Don't be a dick...obviously I'm not starang21. But I read it like a rhetorical question, this is an open discussion board, and I've brought this to your attention before but you continue to ignore it.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

Why would you use such a pejorative term?

I wouldn't call you a @#$%su*&er because you may or may not be a liberal.

Does the bolded stand for "teabagger?"

[Ghostwriter]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Does the bolded stand for "teabagger?"

No a little North of "teabagger".

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

No a little North of "teabagger".

What's a little North of "teabagger?"

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

@#$%su*&er

+

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

+

Cocksucker? That's what it was? Womp womp.

I've heard of "cocksucking liberal" and "cocksucking conservative." That's all.

[starang21]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

Why

because i want to