We are NOT racists!
I’ve got to admit, it’s a little bit unfair to make fun of the teabaggers over their extremely poor choice in naming their organization. Up until they existed, I hadn’t ever heard of teabagging as a sexual activity either.
But, what’s fair got to do with it? In politics, both sides call the other names. They call us libtards, demoncraps and Obamabots. We call them Randroids, Paultards, gap toothed, mouthbreathing, knuckledragging, cousin fucking, trailer dwelling, bible thumping cretins, and teabaggers. That’s all part of the game.
And I think it is good, and healthy to mock them. But I don’t think we can ignore them, I don’t think we can write them off. Sure, they are illiterate and every one of their rallies has at least a few signs which make us laugh with their bad spelling and their unbelievable stupidity. But lots of Americans look at those signs and say “Yup.” Nobody ever lost an election by underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Sure, Christine O’Donnell has made more absurd statements in the past than I can list here, but it would be a mistake to campaign against her because she once “dabbled into witchcraft” (hey, it was college) or because she said that scientists had bred a mouse with a fully functioning human brain (because similar things have been done on television, and lots of people probably would believe it)
Actually, I think President Obama has the right idea. In response to a question the other day, he quite calmly challenged them to say, specifically, what they would do if they were in power. He tried to bring the conversation up to an intelligent level. That’s what Chris Coons and Scott McAdams and everybody else running against teabagger candidates should do.
Me, though, I’m a blogger. I’m just going to keep making fun of them because they suck.
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