I never take too seriously the stereotypes of the members of the tea party movement because all one has to do is google "tea party infiltration" and find the gazillions of stories (from a wide variety of sources) about those in opposition to the tea party who deliberately wish to make the people in the movement live up to the stereotypes and do the stupid things.

The goal, of course, is to make the stereotype of the members the story rather than what the movement is itself.

I can't say if the person holding the Obama sign with a Hitler mustache was such a person or not. All I know is I try not to focus so much on the people who look likes idiots and look at what any particular movement stands for.

There's this, with one hysterical woman proclaiming that she will never have to worry about gas in her car or her mortgage now that Obama has been elected. I suppose she could be my poster child for anyone who supports Obama, but that would be ridiculous. I think there are many such people, but I don't think any Obama supporters here are like that (as misguided as you are :) ), and I don't think most of the Obama supporters are like that.

It grows tiring hearing about how "frighteningly believable" it is.

It's not so much the teapartiers, per se, that I thought were so pointedly skewered by that piece - - but rather all the ignorant blowhards, far predating the current TP movement, who haven't a clue whats said in any of the documents or by any of the people they imagine in their heads to be defending with their gut-busting outrage.


There's no way infiltrators have invented that particular brand of stupidity. It's been around forever, and is so prevalent as to be undeniably genuine among an unfortunately large number of people.

I'm not looking at the individual idiot members. I'm more concerned about their leaders and role models (e.g. Beck and Palin) that reinforce the stupidity.

Well, I don't expect hucksters and rabble-rousers to die out any faster than stupidity.

Rabble-rousers? That reminds me, last Friday, during my afternoon promenade down Western Ave, a couple of the local rabble-rousers made fun of my ascot. I shook my walking stick at them and bid them good day!

Keep it up Tea Party. Please.

I just saw that Dan Quayle's sone is running for Congress. Is it bad of me to want to call him "Spud"?

^ You spelled "Stupid" wrong.

Is "sone" a "potatoe" reference?