# The Tea Party is not socially conservative my ass **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 11, 2010, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760 "2010-10-11T06:09:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/501 "2010-10-19T01:28:06Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > It would seem that Morella is an angry homophobic bitch in addition to her other mental defects. So it would seem very unlikely that she plays for that team. Or maybe I just haven’t brought up that subject because I am not in an environment where anyone would be shocked or offended by it. Just to set the record straight, it looks just as much like a taco to me as it does to you guys… ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/502 "2010-10-19T01:29:53Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Less than probability, I’d say the fact that she thinks that “gays” shouldn’t be allowed to marry and no one else should have to pay for “their AIDS” is a pretty bit tipoff. Whom, do you think, should have to pay for their AIDS? ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/503 "2010-10-19T01:31:34Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Since \*\*curly \*\*sucks at the government teat, \*\*Morella \*\*probably thinks she should be shot. Not unless she is in the country illegally. Come on, play fair…let’s talk about what I actually said. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/504 "2010-10-19T01:34:38Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > Not unless she is in the country illegally. Come on, play fair…let’s talk about what I actually said. Do you even understand what that statement means? Maybe the problem isn’t that you’re stupid, it seems you just lack a firm grasp of the English language. Are you ESL? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/505 "2010-10-19T01:35:39Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > What if, instead, I took the $1,000 and paid someone to move freight with it? What if, instead, you charged a customer $1000 to have that freight moved? Just a thought. I’m thinking you can’t be a real great businessperson. A day or three ago you were waiting to be fueled up instead of saving money by doing it yourself. Yesterday you were whining on the board (in between calling us names) about how nobody was calling you with a load instead of calling people looking for a load. You’re not legally allowed to work people the way you claim to work yourself, so who would accept a job for you anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/506 "2010-10-19T01:35:48Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I do not think this word means what you think it means. Allegories? I deliberately misused the word as a reference to the painting, “Allegory of Good Government”. We’ve all taken Art Appreciation, right? If not, well, most of the stuff that I say goes over people’s heads anyway. I can tell that by the idiotic responses that I’m getting. I enjoy misusing words; for instance, “Oh no, that sounds ominvorous!” instead of “That sounds ominous!” It’s kind of a way of making fun of a particular group of people who do it because they don’t know any better. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/507 "2010-10-19T01:36:20Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > Whom, do you think, should have to pay for their AIDS? Again, is this statement autogenerated by some sort of conservative mad libs? Do you know actually know what HIV/AIDS is? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/508 "2010-10-19T01:37:49Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > Not unless she is in the country illegally. Come on, play fair…let’s talk about what I actually said. Okey, dokey, What countries are we being higher and mightier of by not shooting people who are in the U.S. illegally? What countries do that? ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/509 "2010-10-19T01:39:33Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > Allegories? I deliberately misused the word as a reference to the painting, “Allegory of Good Government”. We’ve all taken Art Appreciation, right? If not, well, most of the stuff that I say goes over people’s heads anyway. I can tell that by the idiotic responses that I’m getting. > > I enjoy misusing words; for instance, “Oh no, that sounds ominvorous!” instead of “That sounds ominous!” It’s kind of a way of making fun of a particular group of people who do it because they don’t know any better. Oh weird, **Starving Artist** tries to use that excuse after being called on his bullshit too. So let’s see, you talk like an idiot, because people think you’re an idiot, for talking like an idiot, because people misread what you write, which is intentional, because you’re an idiot. Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/510 "2010-10-19T01:41:36Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Okay, the NTSB. My mistake. > > But on the larger issue of abolishing entire government agencies, would you get rid of the FAA, the NTSB, and the National Weather Service? Get rid of the FAA completely? No. Perhaps change a few things, if it were up to me, but, the FAA actually does a pretty good job of what they’re doing, and they don’t hassle us. They seem genuinely concerned about air safety, and not just in assessing fines and making it impossible to do business, which is exactly the opposite of what I get from DOT Motor Freight. The NTSB? They can scrap it, for all I care. I don’t really care that much why planes crash. National Weather Service? Still necessary, but they’re becoming less necessary all of the time, as private industry is providing better weather services. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/511 "2010-10-19T01:42:23Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > Ever watch _Battlestar Galactica_? “You have to pick your side”. I would be in complete agreement with a political party, that supported these ideas : > > Religion is total bullshit, and should be abolished. > The EPA and most other regulatory agencies should be abolished. > All prescription drugs should be freely available to adults. No drugs should be illegal. > Gays should not be allowed to legally marry, but they can do anything else they want to do, as long as the government doesn’t have to pay the bill for their AIDS. > Antitrust regulations should be toughened. > No American company should be allowed to use foreign labor. > Any person living in this country illegally should be shot. > Welfare, public education, and social security should be abolished. > No free health care, for anyone. > > Does any party align with all of these ideas? No. I will vote conservative, despite the fact that I obviously disagree with much of the conservative agenda, because it is the lesser of all of the evils. I won’t hate black people, and I won’t praise Jesus, whether the party that I have chosen to vote for does or not. That’s what we all have to do…pick our side. It’s not a perfect world. Once again, this is the genius we’ve chosen engage. In a day or so another brilliant orator will be along to defend this shit. Poe’s law anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/512 "2010-10-19T01:43:05Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > The Federal Aviation Agency was created in 1958. Federal Aviation Administration? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/513 "2010-10-19T01:43:48Z")
Well, how about if we pay for their AIDS if they volunteer to shoot the illegal aliens? ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/514 "2010-10-19T01:46:56Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Well, how about if we pay for their AIDS if they volunteer to shoot the illegal aliens? As an illegal alien, what cracks me up most is that your votes cancel each other out. ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/515 "2010-10-19T01:47:24Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > For those of you just joining us, this is our merde de jour. More correctly put, _Merde du jour._ > [@](#): > > And we’re also putting in random _expressions françaises_ (in italics) for no apparent reason. _Fait pas chier!_ It is proper to put foreign expressions in italics, and, besides, Larry Flynt has always done it, and he is one of the few people in this world whom I really admire. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/516 "2010-10-19T01:47:55Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > National Weather Service? Still necessary, but they’re becoming less necessary all of the time, as private industry is providing better weather services. The weather predictions of private services are based on information provided by the National Weather Service. And when your plane or truck crashes due to a problem that could have been defined by an NTSB analysis of an earlier accident, I’ll have no sympathy for you, only for the innocents taken out in your wake. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/517 "2010-10-19T01:50:16Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > More correctly put, _Merde du jour._ I know, I like to write french expressions wrong to make fun of idiots on the internet that insist on using them. ha HA you fell for my little trap, would you like to come to a dinner party? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/518 "2010-10-19T01:51:04Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > Federal Aviation Administration? No, in fact, when founded in 1958 the Federal Aviation Administration was known as the Federal Aviation Agency. Its name was changed in 1967. Since you have been around since before God had a beard, I’m suprised you didn’t know that. ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/519 "2010-10-19T01:56:53Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Should a country be great for business, or great for its citizens? It’s all the same. The US has unlimited class mobility, and so anyone can make it here. Do you realize that there are some countries where you are born into a class, and can never make anything better of yourself? One of the reasons that foreigners do better in the United States than Americans do is that you people take this country for granted. If you can’t make it in the US, you can’t make it anywhere in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/520 "2010-10-19T02:00:21Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > You mean, one that didn’t win the popular election? What does the popular election have to do with anything? Do you believe that people who live in a few areas of urban sprawl (the “blue” areas) should be allowed to tell the whole rest of the country (the “red” areas) what to do? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760.md?page=27)