# The Tea Party is not socially conservative my ass

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760/89 "2010-10-11T22:17:05Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> … But let one person at a Tea Party rally or one candidate say something offensive, or foolish,…

Only one? 😃

> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> Why is that, I facetiously wonder?

You wonder? 😕 Work harder at it! 😃

Couldn’t figure out an intelligible response to my comment in a MPSIMS thread, huh? Here it is again:

> [@I think I just realized something re: my feelings about Obama...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-realized-something-re-my-feelings-about-obama/556656/36):
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> A charge frequently leveled was that GWB lacked intellectual curiosity. Have you read _Price of Loyalty_, a description of GWB per Paul O’Neil ? For fighting ignorance, reading that would be time better spent than writing vacuous posts for SDMB.
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> > [@I think I just realized something re: my feelings about Obama...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-realized-something-re-my-feelings-about-obama/556656/3):
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> > [various nonsensical excretions]
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> I read a lot of magazines, websites and liberal blogs and I never read [these “charges”]. Not once.
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> > [@I think I just realized something re: my feelings about Obama...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-realized-something-re-my-feelings-about-obama/556656/3):
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> > You mean crap like that?
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> I do think you’re on the right track with this comment. I’d elucidate but this isn’t BBQ Pit.

Since now we _are_ in BBQ Pit, I can confess that I found your comment to be self-describing. Indeed if you’ve ever had anything useful to say, I’ve missed it.

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