She is not some off the wall tea bagger. She is running for the senate. In order for the Repubs to put her up, she must have a strong following in the party. You can personally disavow her if you want, but that does not change the fact she is the Repub candidate for the senate. There must be a huge following in the party for her and her politics.
Alvin Greene (D-South Carolina) causes a slight rhetorical problem there. The cases are quite different, I’ll grant you.
I used to be disgusted at polished politicos who never made a mis-step. Clinton was remarkable, never said an uncalculated word. Now look at the fresh blood we have coming up. If you ask them what they think they actually tell you!
I appreciate honesty, but now I can see why the polished ones get elected.
Totally different. They do not relate at all. The party did not back Greene or will they.
Could we maybe take advantage of this opportunity to say that Thomas Jefferson was, with a few notable exceptions, completely full of shit? That democracy can only work when there is a broad-based acknowledgment of the legitimacy of the government among the voters, and having them constantly consider “second amendment remedies” undermines this? If the American people had taken his advice twenty years after the ratification of the Constitution, he would have been the tyrant whose blood would water the tree of liberty. Judging from his performance as governor of Virginia, he likely would not have stopped running until he caught up with Lewis and Clark.
Not only that, but Alvin Greene has not said anything controversial whatsoever. True, he doesn’t appear qualified for political office (based on his lack of thoughtful positions–or any positions, in some cases), but that’s quite different from advocating violence.
I agree, but who’s Thomas Jefferson? Are you sure you don’t mean Thomas Aquinas?
20 years? Try 2 years.
And any rebellion by tea-baggers today would end up with the same result.
Tea* Party. * They are the one who are supposedly immature and silly, right? Why descend to their level?
They named themselves “Teabaggers”. Their first schtick was a movement to protest taxes by sending the members of congress a teabag coupled with a mindless screed. It was after the press started giving them attention that the name got out and they discovered that the term already had a meaning :D. They had to go through a big PR push to retcon the movement’s name after their opponents got a hold of it.
Nope. wiki "*February 1, 2009 “tea party campaign”
On January 19, 2009, Graham Makohoniuk, a part-time trader and a member of Ticker Forum, posted a casual invitation on the market-ticker.org forums to “Mail a tea bag to congress and to senate”.[26] The idea quickly caught on with others on the forum, some of whom reported being attracted to the inexpensive, easy way to reach “everyone that voted for the bailout.”[27]
Forum moderator, Stephanie Jasky helped organize the group and worked to “get it to go viral.”[28] Jasky is also the founder and director of FedUpUSA - a fiscally conservative, non-partisan activist group whose members describe themselves as “a group of investors” who sprung out of the market-ticker.org forums.[29] The group had previously held DC protests in 2008.[30][31] On January 19, 2009, Jasky had posted a formal invitation “to a commemorative tea party.”[32] She suggested they all send tea bags on the same day (February 1, 2009) in a coordinated effort.[28]
The founder of market-ticker.org, Karl Denninger (stock trader and former CEO),[33] published his own write-up on the proposed protest, titled “Tea Party February 1st?,” which was posted in direct response to President Obama’s inauguration occurring on the same day, and railed against the bailouts, the US national debt and “the fraud and abuse in our banking and financial system” which included the predatory lending practices currently at the center of the home mortgage foreclosure crisis.[34] Karl Denninger, who helped form FedUpUSA in the wake of the March 2008 Federal Reserve bail out of Bear Sterns, had been a guest on both Glenn Beck and CNBC Reports.[35][36] By February 1, the idea had spread among conservative and libertarian-oriented blogs, forums, websites and through a viral email campaign.[37]
On February 11, talk radio host and Fox Business Network personality Dave Ramsey appeared on Fox and Friends, waving tea bags and saying “It’s time for a Tea Party.”[24] He was on the show criticizing the newly confirmed Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, who that morning had outlined his plan to use the $300 billion or so dollars remaining in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds. He intended to use $50 billion for foreclosure mitigation and use the rest to help fund private investors to buy toxic assets from banks.[38]
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It was Tea Party from the start.
Good link, Poly!
Tea-baggers they are, and tea-baggers they remain. Besides, for me to get to their level isn’t necessarily a descent. 
Plus, I hardly think that referencing sophomoric sexual games is lowering yourself to the level of advocating armed revolution. On the other hand, I’m reminded of that famous Thomas Jefferson quote, “The tree of liberty must at times be watered with saliva dripping off the testicles of patriots”.