# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/41 "2010-10-11T16:01:15Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > > [@Steampunk\_Willie](#): > > > > Is that what we are going to call the signs with Nigger and Obama-hitler on them? > > Those you can ignore because more than likely, they are being held up by someone trying to besmirch the Tea Party movement. They know the media will show those signs; it’s like a Pavlovian reaction and they position for good camera exposure. There are not enough rolleyes to cover that. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/42 "2010-10-11T16:02:11Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > > [@Clothahump](#): > > > > Those you can ignore because more than likely, they are being held up by someone trying to besmirch the Tea Party movement. > > More than likely? Based on what? Blind faith and wishful thinking. If the signs were out of line with the “mainstream” (more like a trickle) of TeaBagger “thought,” the signholders would have been shouted down, harrassed and beaten. But there they are, untouched and unmussed. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/43 "2010-10-11T16:05:52Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > > > More than likely? Based on what? > > Blind faith and wishful thinking. If the signs were out of line with the “mainstream” (more like a trickle) of TeaBagger “thought,” the signholders would have been shouted down, harrassed and beaten. But there they are, untouched and unmussed. Yup, All of us Commie libruls are out there with “Nigger” signs, looking for a Tea Bagger circlejerk to besmirch. That’s what we do all day. We drive around with our “Nigger” signs looking for rallies to fuck up. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/44 "2010-10-11T16:09:54Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Got a link to a Tea Party demonstration with a sign saying “Nigger”? I mean, that’d be the hottest picture on the Internet; I’d love to have access to it. > > ETA: I found one, although the guy… er, misspelled the word. Dear me. See? Wrongly-worded. Just like that stupid motherfucker said. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/45 "2010-10-11T16:15:38Z")
Of course! It just hit me! Its post modernist irony! They know what the expectations are, so they deliberately go way, way out there as a droll commentary on those expectations! They know that none of those slimes are remotely true, that’s the whole point! I mean, look at that crowd! How can you not instantly be sure that they are totally into Derrida, deconstructionist literary criticism, and semiotics! ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/46 "2010-10-11T16:19:50Z")
Still not hearing any denouncing…I must assume that Starving Artist is in complete agreement with everything that any Tea Partier has said, since he hasn’t denounced any of it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/47 "2010-10-11T16:24:23Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > > [@RickJay](#): > > > > Got a link to a Tea Party demonstration with a sign saying “Nigger”? I mean, that’d be the hottest picture on the Internet; I’d love to have access to it. > > > > ETA: I found one, although the guy… er, misspelled the word. Dear me. > > See? Wrongly-worded. Just like that stupid motherfucker said. What kind of moran would misspell an ethnic slur? ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/48 "2010-10-11T16:24:27Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > > [@Steampunk\_Willie](#): > > > > Is that what we are going to call the signs with Nigger and Obama-hitler on them? > > Those you can ignore because more than likely, they are being held up by someone trying to besmirch the Tea Party movement. They know the media will show those signs; it’s like a Pavlovian reaction and they position for good camera exposure. Sure, and it was probably a liberal who created the content of those emails ([Carl Paladino's Emails: Tea Party-Backed Gov Candidate's Emails Feature Racism, Bestiality, Porn (PHOTOS, VIDEO) | HuffPost New York](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/12/carl-paladinos-emails-tea_n_534691.html)) that Carl Paladino was compelled to forward around. This is eerily similar to **Starving Artist’s** argument in the other thread that liberals have been intentionally misleading conservatives about the true nature of evolution all these years. You know, at some point I wish that somewhere just one conservative would ever actually be responsible for his or her own behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/49 "2010-10-11T16:26:54Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Yup, All of us Commie libruls are out there with “Nigger” signs, looking for a Tea Bagger circlejerk to besmirch. That’s what we do all day. We drive around with our “Nigger” signs looking for rallies to fuck up. Dude! The secret agenda, remember? The agency will be sending someone over to collect your Bleeing Hearts Club card shortly. ---
**Author:** ![heatmiserfl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@heatmiserfl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heatmiserfl)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/50 "2010-10-11T16:28:40Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > > [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > > > How come every Tea Partier who makes an offensive remark gets labeled a “champion” or “hero” of the Tea Party around here? The Tea Party is made up of millions of people with a wide range of opinions, beliefs, backgrounds, education and income levels. But let one person at a Tea Party rally or one candidate say something offensive, or foolish, or hold up a wrongly worded sign, and immediately they become the personification of the Tea Party. > > > > Why is that, I facetiously wonder? > > The Tea Party is made up of ignorant, reactionary, selfish, short sighted assholes. They don’t give a damn about anyone but themselves. > > \*Give me my social security, my medicare and my unemployment (my fucking government handouts) but don’t give shit to anyone else, and keep government out of my business (except to give me more fucking handouts). > > I don’t want any new taxes or any taxes at all but government has to take care of my lazy stupid worthless ass (I supposed by taxing someone ELSE) > > I want MY government health care but I want government out of the halth care business (take care of me, but let anyone else die) > > Government is there to do what I say because it’s supposed to represent me, but if it looks like it might not do exactly what I want (and to hell with anyone else) I want the “Second Amendment Remedy” or whatever those assholes call it. > > I want freedom for me, to do whatever I want, but none for anyone else. I want religious freedom, and the rest are free to obey whatever bulshit I falsely want to tack onto my religion. God says they all suck anyway. > > I used to say anyone who slammed Bush was a traitor, but I talk incessantly about how Obama is a Muslim traitor Commie monley (ni\*\*er) and that’s OK. > > I walk into Obama “town halls” with a gun, and then have the gall to say I’m not being threatening (but I bet if anyone with a different view showd up, Tea Baggers would shit themselves). > > It’ all about me. Fuck everyone else. I’m mad about everything, even when I don’t even know what it is. > \* > The Tea Party is the lunatic fringe, the people who are ignorant and proud of it. To hell with them. At the very least, they are damn hypocrites. That pretty much sums them up for me. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/51 "2010-10-11T17:07:29Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > The agency will be sending someone over to collect your Bleeing Hearts Club card shortly. “We’re Sergeant Pepper’s Bleeing Hearts Club Band…” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/52 "2010-10-11T17:12:26Z")
All this talk of _Bleeing._ To blee or not to blee … isn’t that, really the question? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/53 "2010-10-11T17:15:52Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > > [@SteveG1](#): > > > > Yup, All of us Commie libruls are out there with “Nigger” signs, looking for a Tea Bagger circlejerk to besmirch. That’s what we do all day. We drive around with our “Nigger” signs looking for rallies to fuck up. > > Dude! The secret agenda, remember? > The agency will be sending someone over to collect your Bleeing Hearts Club card shortly. Dammit. Shit. Dammit. I know, I’ll just deny saying it. People have such lousy memories, it will be forgotten by tomorrow, and if not, I will accuse someone of making it up. I’ll say they said I said it and that they are lying and picking on me. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/54 "2010-10-11T17:17:20Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > All this talk of _Bleeing._ > > To blee or not to blee … isn’t that, really the question? It’s the unbearable lightness of bleeing. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/55 "2010-10-11T17:24:30Z")
Republicans will eventually suffer the worst political hangover in history, once the teabaggers have gone their merry way after fucking up the country. Unfortunately, it won’t come soon enough. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/56 "2010-10-11T17:27:06Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Those you can ignore because more than likely, they are being held up by someone trying to besmirch the Tea Party movement. They know the media will show those signs; it’s like a Pavlovian reaction and they position for good camera exposure. Like the last time you stated this, I have to ask: is there any reason for you believe this other than wishful thinking? Racist people are going to hate Obama. They are going to join protests against him. Unless the teabaggers do something to stop this, then the people with the “niggar” signs aren’t your hypothetical anti-tea party operatives - they are genuine racists who identify themselves as tea-partiers. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/57 "2010-10-11T17:28:28Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Republicans will eventually suffer the worst political hangover in history, once the teabaggers have gone their merry way after fucking up the country. Unfortunately, it won’t come soon enough. I bet people said the same thing about the Religious Right. The party still seems to be going on for them, though. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/58 "2010-10-11T17:31:52Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > > [@Chefguy](#): > > > > Republicans will eventually suffer the worst political hangover in history, once the teabaggers have gone their merry way after fucking up the country. Unfortunately, it won’t come soon enough. > > I bet people said the same thing about the Religious Right. The party still seems to be going on for them, though. Religion pays, lunacy doesn’t. You can always sell god, but you get full-up with crazy in short order. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/59 "2010-10-11T17:42:26Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > > [@Revtim](#): > > > > I bet people said the same thing about the Religious Right. The party still seems to be going on for them, though. > > Religion pays, lunacy doesn’t. You can always sell god, but you get full-up with crazy in short order. Many would argue that the Religious Right’s version of religion is just another example of crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/60 "2010-10-11T17:54:40Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > How come every Tea Partier who makes an offensive remark gets labeled a “champion” or “hero” of the Tea Party around here? The Tea Party is made up of millions of people with a wide range of opinions, beliefs, backgrounds, education and income levels. But let one person at a Tea Party rally or one candidate say something offensive, or foolish, or hold up a wrongly worded sign, and immediately they become the personification of the Tea Party. > > Why is that, I facetiously wonder? And “liberals” include millions of people with a wide range of opinions, beliefs, backgrounds, education and income levels. But according to you, we’re responsible for everything that’s wrong in this country since the 1960s. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760.md?page=4)