sologdin Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 don't fear Gingrich running caught a snippet of fox news this afternoon wherein the anchors were pondering a rasmussen poll regarding the electoral performance of a teabagger candidate vs dems and GOP.maybe gingrich will run as a teabagger and split the rightwing vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Lord Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 don't fear Gingrich running caught a snippet of fox news this afternoon wherein the anchors were pondering a rasmussen poll regarding the electoral performance of a teabagger candidate vs dems and GOP.maybe gingrich will run as a teabagger and split the rightwing vote.Is it possible that the Right is going to have a Tea Bagging Party? (I've missed out on seeing this phenomenon in public...I only read/hear about it on the internet and I don't trust the internet)What I mean is: Is it possible that this will actually result in a legitimate, new party? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Nice of Gingrich to slam Detroit. I am sure it makes the residents feel good to have a national political figure stand up, point to them and say "Hey, we don't want to be like them, do we?It's what the modern Republican Party does. What makes this unusual is that they're going after Detroit, rather than San Francisco, New York, Boston, or Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Lord Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 It's what the modern Republican Party does. What makes this unusual is that they're going after Detroit, rather than San Francisco, New York, Boston, or Chicago.Yes, but Michigan is a pretty major swing state. Making them the one you point and laugh at seems unusually stupid. California, NY, Illinois...these are pretty solidly in the Dem's camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerraPrime Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Maybe it's just classic bullyism? You know, pick on the weak kid in the group, and do risk losing by picking a fight with someone who can fight back. Or maybe it's the fact that Detroit is full of black and brown people? Or maybe it's one of those GOP codewords for "do what the Dems want, and your neighborhood would be over-run by the darkies, too!"? :dunno:Who knows. There are certainly worse cities than Detroit in this country, in terms of economic depression and safety. Didn't someone just posted that Baltimore actually have 2 of the 10 worst neighborhoods in terms of safety? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pika Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Is it possible that the Right is going to have a Tea Bagging Party? (I've missed out on seeing this phenomenon in public...I only read/hear about it on the internet and I don't trust the internet)What I mean is: Is it possible that this will actually result in a legitimate, new party?I suspect they will win a LOT of local elections (that often don't have party backing) and its going to suck for anyone living in a municipality they win.. As for the Teabaggers.. well They seem to share massive support here.. but then I'm in the South so thats always a case of the populace veering right.. a good many of my customers at work would be perfectly happy to have a Palin/Beck white house duo.. you know anything to keep the "UN planted, socialist-muslim, Not My president Obama" from getting re-elected.. I'm also a pessimist.. so I see nothing but angry white christian presidents behind every corner.. but I knew this was going to happen eventually, the social-right has finally begun a schism from the financial right. I suspect that as the republican party further morphs into the teabagger party.. they will keep the name some how.. and the fiscal republicans.. rightly disgusted by their antics will begin throwing more votes to the Libertarian party.. I don't know which one i fear more.. the Teabagger-republicans or the Libertarian-Republicans. all just my opinion/observations though.. Also, its funny.. the spell checker on this board doesn't underline christian when its not capitalized.. but does underline muslim when its not capitalized. I wonder why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean of Notions Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Also, its funny.. the spell checker on this board doesn't underline christian when its not capitalized.. but does underline muslim when its not capitalized. I wonder why?The spell checker is your browser's. I'm on Chrome and when I spell "christian" without the capitisation, it tells me it's wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pika Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 The spell checker is your browser's. I'm on Chrome and when I spell "christian" without the capitisation, it tells me it's wrong.Ok so its just whatever version of Firefox I have then.. Its no big deal, I was just curious about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annelise Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 caught a snippet of fox news this afternoon wherein the anchors were pondering a rasmussen poll regarding the electoral performance of a teabagger candidate vs dems and GOP.Did they use a pie chart adding up to 193% again? A few weeks ago they had one up that had Huckabee at 63%, Palin at 70% and Romney at 63%. http://open.salon.com/blog/norwonk/2009/12/11/what_is_it_with_fox_news_and_opinion_pollsThere's an example of them "citing" another Rasmussen poll in the above, too. I think the DS and Colbert need to start referring to them as the network with zero tolerance for accuracy, heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annelise Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Or maybe it's one of those GOP codewords for "do what the Dems want, and your neighborhood would be over-run by the darkies, too!"? :dunno:Politically speaking, when you have the GOP's reputation on race, does it really matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annelise Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Is it possible that the Right is going to have a Tea Bagging Party? (I've missed out on seeing this phenomenon in public...I only read/hear about it on the internet and I don't trust the internet)What I mean is: Is it possible that this will actually result in a legitimate, new party?From what I've read, the majority of the establishment republicans don't have any interest in that, other than harnessing Teabagger energy and donations. But I think it could happen by default, because if satisfying candidates aren't selected or don't win out in the GOP primaries, the teabaggers will go their own way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsavong Lah Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Gingrich isn't actually all that beloved by the Teabaggers, as he frequently says that the GOP has to have a big tent and is against purity tests for its candidates.Conservatives would actually probably do better short term if they just dissolved the GOP and make a Tea Party or a Conservative Party. Both actually test better with moderates, not because of ideas, but just because they don't carry the negative baggage of the Republican brand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Stranger Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 When will politicians learn that trying to be hip just doesn't work.Fucking lies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shryke Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Did they use a pie chart adding up to 193% again? A few weeks ago they had one up that had Huckabee at 63%, Palin at 70% and Romney at 63%. http://open.salon.com/blog/norwonk/2009/12/11/what_is_it_with_fox_news_and_opinion_pollsThere's an example of them "citing" another Rasmussen poll in the above, too. I think the DS and Colbert need to start referring to them as the network with zero tolerance for accuracy, heh.To be fair, it might have been a direct quote from Rasmussen, who's likely voter model tends to swing heavily towards the Right and towards the non-existent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsavong Lah Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 To be fair, it might have been a direct quote from Rasmussen, who's likely voter model tends to swing heavily towards the Right and towards the non-existent.I'd assume those numbers were actual each person's favorable ratings amongst Republicans. But FOX did have a poll last week that added up to 120%, and they stand by it as an accurate graphic (because they now have a zero tolerance policy to faulty graphics). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelli Fury Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Do these people seriously not know there is another meaning to "teabagging?" Seriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Do these people seriously not know there is another meaning to "teabagging?" Seriously?Yes, I would guess the majority of Americans don't know the sexual slang meaning of "teabagging". I teach a class in Human Sexuality, and hadn't heard of it until people mentioned it recently in regard to the newer political use of the term.Some quick Googling seems to show that the first sure use of "teabagging" in its sexual reference is from the John Waters movie Pecker in 1998, though Waters claims not to have invented the term. But new sexual slang tends to be something popularized among the young. I doubt if there are very many people over the age of 40 who know about the sexual meaning of "teabagging" unless they've been paying a lot of attention to political comments about "teabaggers" from the few people who do know the sexual reference and therefore find the new meaning hilarious. In the Waters film, by the way, "teabagging" evidently means just rubbing the scrotum on someone's face. The more speciifc meaning of putting the scrotum in someone's mouth seems to have developed even more recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelli Fury Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 it can also mean stretching it over someone's face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Why don't you try asking some people over 50 you know about whether they had ever heard of a sexual meaning for "teabagging" until the past year? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Iceman of the North Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Why don't you try asking some people over 50 you know about whether they had ever heard of a sexual meaning for "teabagging" until the past year? :)Aren't you her token over-50 friend? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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