# 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:** 34
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/661 "2010-10-22T00:15:01Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > No we don’t. Not in a group based health plan. They pay the same premium as everyone else. Thanks, Obamacare! > [@](#): > > BTW Pilots have upwards of 25 times a higher rate of skin cancer. And is it not a lifestyle choice? Sounds like bullshit to me. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/662 "2010-10-22T00:15:48Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > 1999-2002 Cartoon Network **ban** & Warner Brothers warnings There was no ban. The body of text beneath that heading does not support the conclusion that there was a ban. You have no cite that there was a ban. You are lying again. ETA: It’s not a “ban” if someone just decides to stop doing something. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/663 "2010-10-22T00:18:17Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > As much as you have, I suppose. You suppose wrong. You haven’t said why anyone other than you should care what you think yet. > [@](#): > > For one thing, someone might want to be employed, and I am an employer. No, you’re just some goon on the internet to me. Why does anyone owe your opinion consideration again? > [@](#): > > I hear a lot of bitching from liberals about “why aren’t there any jobs?”, yet, when the question is answered, they don’t want to hear it. The money to pay the employees went to taxes…that is your answer. Not really. I wasn’t asking about jobs or taxes. Answer the real question, not the imaginary question in your head. > [@](#): > > Yes, and you should build me a new house, because I believe that everyone has the right to free housing. So? It’s still unclear to me why you think what you want should matter to other people. Please explain why other people should care what you want. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/664 "2010-10-22T00:20:39Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > So, a Scottish man couldn’t marry an Irish woman, or what? As long as they were both white, it was okay. Odd that you weren’t aware of anti-miscegenation laws. Those were the days. > [@Morella](#): > > Yes, they were. A drink and a cigarette on a long flight is nice. Yup, that’s some seriously selfish bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/665 "2010-10-22T00:24:16Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > There was no ban. The body of text beneath that heading does not support the conclusion that there was a ban. You have no cite that there was a ban. You are lying again. > > ETA: It’s not a “ban” if someone just decides to stop doing something. So complain to Wikipedia. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, _j’en ai rien a foutre._ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/666 "2010-10-22T00:25:55Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > So complain to Wikipedia. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, _j’en ai rien a foutre._ I have nothing to complain to wikipedia about. You’re the ignorant moron who doesn’t know what the word “ban” means and who has no reading comprehension. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/667 "2010-10-22T00:26:18Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > Thanks, Obamacare! Wow, you really are that clueless. > [@Morella](#): > > Sounds like bullshit to me. Of course it does, because it doesn’t fit your narrative, and it conflicts with your attitude towards gays. You were looking for ways to dismiss homosexuals, and then realized you’d have to dismiss a lot of others for the same reason. That’s what’s known as intellectual dishonesty. You’re business requires roads, highways, and government regulations. But you’re too stupid to understand the role that taxes play. You think you can blame taxes for all your problems, because it’s easier than blaming yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/668 "2010-10-22T00:26:24Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > You suppose wrong. You haven’t said why anyone other than you should care what you think yet. If you don’t care what I think, then why do you keep responding to it? > [@](#): > > No, you’re just some goon on the internet to me. Why does anyone owe your opinion consideration again? _J’ai aucune idée_, you tell me. ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/669 "2010-10-22T00:27:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Of course it does, because it doesn’t fit your narrative, and it conflicts with your attitude towards gays. You were looking for ways to dismiss homosexuals, and then realized you’d have to dismiss a lot of others for the same reason. That’s what’s known as intellectual dishonesty. That’s fucking hilarious. > [@](#): > > You’re business requires roads, highways, and government regulations. But you’re too stupid to understand the role that taxes play. You think you can blame taxes for all your problems, because it’s easier than blaming yourself. Problems? I don’t have a care 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 22, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/670 "2010-10-22T00:32:27Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > As long as they were both white, it was okay. Odd that you weren’t aware of anti-miscegenation laws. Those were the days. No US law would have affected my race or nationality, so I have a hard time getting excited about it. I can understand how, in a time when black people were considered less than human, parents would be upset about their children marrying one of them, just as most parents are upset when their children turn gay, or get into bestiality or BDSM. As selfish as it may seem, they usually want grandchildren, and happiness for their offspring. Yup, that’s some seriously selfish bullshit. [/QUOTE] Smoking a cigarette is selfish? How? You people got your smoking sections, and you still weren’t happy. You got smokers kicked out of public buildings, and you’re still not happy when they smoke outside, where it isn’t bothering you. Who is being selfish? ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/671 "2010-10-22T00:33:27Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > That’s fucking hilarious. > > Problems? I don’t have a care in the world. You’ve got a lot of problems. > **[BBC News | HEALTH | Pilots 'have higher skin cancer risk'](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/645113.stm)** > > Pilots are 10 times more likely to get skin cancer than the rest of the population, according to research. Yup, smoking sections in a plane, brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/672 "2010-10-22T00:33:57Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > That’s fucking hilarious. > > Problems? I don’t have a care in the world. Then why are you bitching about taxes, if they aren’t a problem for you? ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/673 "2010-10-22T00:34:55Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I have nothing to complain to wikipedia about. You’re the ignorant moron who doesn’t know what the word “ban” means and who has no reading comprehension. And who is the one who is trying to make something out of nothing, with a silly little argument over semantics? I said “ban”, Wikipedia says “ban”, you say otherwise. Maybe, before you go around calling someone a liar, you should stop to consider that, just this once, you might be the one who is mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/674 "2010-10-22T00:35:58Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Then why are you bitching about taxes, if they aren’t a problem for you? Taxes are everyone’s problem. ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/675 "2010-10-22T00:37:38Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > You’ve got a lot of problems. > > [BBC News | HEALTH | Pilots 'have higher skin cancer risk'](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/645113.stm) Research this a little further, and you will find that there is nothing about flying, itself, that causes skin cancer. > [@](#): > > Yup, smoking sections in a plane, brilliant! And smoking is relevant to skin cancer, how? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/676 "2010-10-22T00:38:13Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > Taxes are everyone’s problem. I haven’t got a care in the world. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/677 "2010-10-22T00:42:26Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > If you don’t care what I think, then why do you keep responding to it? It was a simple question, why can’t you answer it? > [@](#): > > _J’ai aucune idée_, you tell me. What next? You’re rubber and I’m glue? ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/678 "2010-10-22T00:45:07Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > Yes, they were. A drink and a cigarette on a long flight is nice. > [@emacknight](#): > > Yup, smoking sections in a plane, brilliant! Especially if you’re the pilot!! “Hey, stew, bring me another scotch and soda and a pack of Marlboro. Oh, and how about unbuttoning a couple of buttons on that blouse before you come back to the cockpit, huh cutie?” Ah, the good old days! ---
**Author:** ![Morella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Morella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morella)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/679 "2010-10-22T01:28:37Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I haven’t got a care in the world. Good for you, Mop! I think I’m just too old to worry about anything anymore. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/680 "2010-10-22T01:32:58Z")
> [@CannyDan](#): > > Especially if you’re the pilot!! “Hey, stew, bring me another scotch and soda and a pack of Marlboro. Oh, and how about unbuttoning a couple of buttons on that blouse before you come back to the cockpit, huh cutie?” > > Ah, the good old days! There is something so beautifully ridiculous about a minority female remember the early 60’s fondly. At least we’ve proven once and for all that the Tea Party is socially conservative. And judging by the moronic rhetoric towards taxes, fiscal responsibility isn’t part of the plan. There’s nothing quite like a political party based on promoting hatred, lies, and free money. And they really nailed their target demographics. Goes to show, when your goal is to repeat history, target voters without any knowledge of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760.md?page=35)