What Makes the Teabags Steep? 0
StevenD proposes an answer. They whole thing is worth a read. A nugget:
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) received racist faxes Monday in the wake of Sunday’s House vote approving health care reform legislation.
Clyburn, a veteran of the civil rights movement, told Keith Olbermann Monday that faxes sent to his office had racist images including a noose. “If you look at some of the faxes that I got today, racial slurs, nooses on gallows, and I’m telling you, some very vicious language. This stuff is not all that isolated. It’s pretty widespread. I hope it’s not too deep.”
Don Hamson argues in the Philadelphia Inquirer that the Teabaggers are not conservative. That may be true in some linguistic sense, but it’s irrelevant.
Teabaggers think they are conservative. Persons who call themselves conservative have bankrolled them. Other conservatives consider them conservative. Persons who campaign as conservative campaign for their votes.
Persons who want to call themselves “conservative,” but are repulsed by Teabagging, may try to kick the Teabaggers out of the conservative bed, but they can’t.
They birthed the Teabaggers. They nurtured them. They groomed them and lusted after their fealty.
Now, they are stuck with them.
