Tea Party topples its first incumbent.

[BlackCat]

How are they mutually exclusive? Anarchy is just 1) the extreme decentralization of power, or 2) the absence of authority. It has nothing to do with society.

Well, of course I could have written "a society that takes care of the poor, sick and disabled - giving all people a chance to have a decent life etc. etc.", but I really didn't thought that it would be nessecary.

And you think the Tea Party is an anarchist movement? What the hell are you smoking?

No, I don't think that they are an anarchist movement - just that they don't know what their policy easily could end up in.

Oh, I'm only smoking cigarettes - have never tried any of the more "fun" stuff

@HC. Don't jump to conclusions that has no bearing.

[Hueij]

Just a question. I'm not familiar with the finer inner workings of American politics, but does the name Tea Party come from the Boston Tea Party? And if so, why aren't people upset that they pick a name that (I think) is significant to every American, not only the far right of the Republican Party?

[Solomwi]

1. Yes.

2. Americans are better at teabagging jokes than true righteous outrage.

[Dinner]

You should probably wait until after the first election cycle the teabaggers have been around for before questioning their ability to win elections, genius.

There have been three special elections all of which the tea baggers tried to upset and all of which they failed. Miserably failed.

[Drake Tungsten]

Yes, Scott Brown was a miserable failure for the Tea Party.

Why can't you ever be right about anything?

[Dinner]

Tea Party supporters wealthier, better-educated than Oerdin

"37 percent of Tea Party supporters have at least a college degree", "More than half of them (53 percent) have family incomes between $30,000 and $100,000"

http://www.slate.com/id/2252281

I wouldn't call them rich or well educated and instead mostly middle class with "some college". What they are is older, married, religious, and almost exclusively white. In short, they're typical Republicans.

[Zevico]

Call me when they ransack the White House and burn Obama at the stake.

[Dinner]

Yes, Scott Brown was a miserable failure for the Tea Party.

Why can't you ever be right about anything?

Scott Brown routinely snubs the tea baggers.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/12/brown-tea-party-palin/

He's a Republican who would be considered a liberal to moderate Republican; he's exactly the type of Republican the tea baggers have been targeting for elimination. Just because a Republican wins doesn't mean a tea bagger wins.

[Dinner]

http://themoderatevoice.com/63921/scott-brown-in-crosseyes-of-media-republicans-and-democrats/

Hell, the tea baggers are even calling Scott Brown a RINO and a traitor for voting to pass the President's Jobs Bill. As I said, Scott Brown was a Republican win but most certainly not a tea bagger win. He's much to moderate and the tea baggers hate moderates.

[Hauldren Collider]

Scott Brown was a Tea Party win, because he's a Republican from Massachusetts. Of course he's a moderate Republican, but that's not the point. He's a Republican. From Massachusetts. They got a Republican elected in Massachusetts. Do you not see the significance of that?

By the way, why hasn't this teabagging thing gotten old yet? I personally hated middle school.

[DinoDoc]

He's much to moderate and the tea baggers hate moderates.

They knew that. They supported him regardless in a gambit to kill the HCR bill given the contortions the Dem leadership went through to recover from that defeat I don't see how you can call it a defeat for the Tea Party people.

[Drake Tungsten]

He's a Republican who would be considered a liberal to moderate Republican; he's exactly the type of Republican the tea baggers have been targeting for elimination. Just because a Republican wins doesn't mean a tea bagger wins.

From the first paragraph of the article Oerdin linked to...

Last January, Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) triumphed in his long-shot campaign for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts with the help of Tea Party activists. In addition to offering its support, the Tea Party Express PAC spent nearly $300,000 backing Brown or attacking his opponent Martha Coakley. “If it wasn’t for the Tea Party movement, Scott Brown wouldn’t have gotten that seat,” said one Tea Party activist.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/12/brown-tea-party-palin/

[Aeson]

I personally hated middle school.

Welcome back!

[DinoDoc]

He's a Republican who would be considered a liberal to moderate Republican; he's exactly the type of Republican the tea baggers have been targeting for elimination. Just because a Republican wins doesn't mean a tea bagger wins.

From the first paragraph of the article Oerdin linked to...

Last January, Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) triumphed in his long-shot campaign for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts with the help of Tea Party activists. In addition to offering its support, the Tea Party Express PAC spent nearly $300,000 backing Brown or attacking his opponent Martha Coakley. “If it wasn’t for the Tea Party movement, Scott Brown wouldn’t have gotten that seat,” said one Tea Party activist.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/12/...a-party-palin/

Picking on the retarded.

[Drake Tungsten]

I already had that page loaded up in a tab as a rebuttal to whatever stupid point Oerdin was going to make about Scott Brown not being associated with the Tea Party, but he went and destroyed his own argument for me...