You gave yourself that name because in your minds it evokes the struggle of our forebears against British oppression. Those patriots dressed themselves up and dumped tea in Boston Harbor as a protest against unfair taxation. But you are voting for the guy who wants the richest amongst us to get every tax break at the expense of those of us who are struggling. The only thing you are dumping in the harbor is medical coverage for the poor.
You think of yourselves as patriots, like the Minutemen of the Revolution. You complain that Obama is going to take your guns even though he has enacted no legislation to do that. But you need your guns in case you have to rise up against tyranny you say. In fact it was Bush that was wiretapping American citizens and eroding your civil rights.
You have convinced yourselves that Obama is not an American citizen. You want to see his birth certificate, and when it is shown to you, you still aren’t satisfied. But for some reason when we want to see Romney’s tax forms that is just crazy talk.
Some of you believe that Obama is a Muslim. It isn’t true. But even if it was there is no law precluding Muslims from being the President. We have freedom of all religions in this country, not just yours. Try reading the Constitution you keep saying you stand for. You say he is a Socialist even though many of you don’t know exactly what that is or why it is supposed to be so bad. And he isn’t one, just so you know.
So now you are in the awkward position of having to vote for a guy whose religion you are suspicious of because you fear him less than Obama.
You have to vote for a guy who changes his mind all the time just so he can say all the things that all of you want to hear.
And you have to vote for a guy who has the same plans as the idiot who got us into this mess in the first place.
You know you are better off now than you were four years ago. The worst thing you can say about Obama is that he isn’t cleaning up Bush’s mess fast enough.
Be honest with yourself for just one minute. This isn’t about any of these issues at all. The truth is that it just pisses you off to lose and you don’t want it to happen again.
If you vote for Romney and his magic underpants and his plan to fix our country while cutting the deficit, eliminating foreign debt, growing the military and not raising taxes, all with money than is even more magic than his fancy drawers, then you deserve to have him as President.
Pouring My Art Out 
Well stated! Great points here. Thanks for posting this, and thank you for stopping by Travel Oops and liking the Friday Funny Sign! Steph
Thank you.
Seriously…I think the main reason so many in the Tea Party are foaming at the mouth about Obama is because he is not white skinned…I mean, if they would be honest with themselves I think they would find they still feel like blacks and whites should not intermingle and that whites should never have to take orders from blacks, browns, yellows, reds, greens or any other color for that matter. It is flabbergasting to imagine I know but just like the South has never grown up and stopped woulda, coulda, shoulda about the Civil War, a huge number of white males in America just can not wrap their heads around the fact that in a democracy wherein they constitute a minority, the result is decision making made by others who look nothing (to their minds) like them. A very large, hard and bitter pill to swallow for them. Hence they grasp at any straw and work diligently to sway any other person. If you haven’t had a chance to read the book, What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank, I strongly encourage you to do so. It is a sad but accurate commentary on the tactics used so effectively by the Republican Party.
The South has been voting Republican long before Obama, even though it stands for nothing in their interest. It baffles me.
Excellent!
I know you are but what am I?
Yup!
When I think of the Tea Party, I think of the Mad Hatter Tea Party and broken eggs and Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and this from the song:
“When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards”
Sounds like a GOP and Romney to me. Maybe they partook of a few too many mushrooms.
I doubt it. I think that might help them. Open up your mind and your ass is sure to fillow.
Doesn’t a part of you hope Obama is a Muslim so he kills them all?
Guns don’t kill people… extremists kill people… with guns…
Dude… I changed the privacy settings…you know where… now I don’t know if anyone can get in or see the posts. Can you pop in and take a look.
I’m just going to move to Fiji and be done with it all.
hell yes!
*runs off to check flights*
Actually… Mr. Honey Bunny himself has recently mentioned that we don’t have to live in our house for the original agreed upon 30 years before we move to the tropics. We can do it as soon as the future kids move out. Woo hoo! So that’s what…. 22 years away-ish? Island bound 2034!
Start saving now so you can go in style.
Wait – you’re pregnant?
Nah, but we’re not avoiding it anymore as of August. Then again we’re not trying either. We’re letting nature take its course.
And, to clarify, by “let nature take its course” I mean my genetics come from Idaho, German, Catholic farming folks (I have about 500 cousins). Therefore I assume I’m as fertile as any prize heifer. Not avoiding = inevitable pretty soon. I’ve only taken the good breeding stock from the Idaho relatives though. None of the ideals match up.
This is what my blog needs more of… talk about trying to have babies. I love babies. Free babies for everyone!
Do they come with a dipping sauce?
Do full diapers count?
Sorry about that. 😦 Shoulda chatted it up about my uterus separately. However I really did love your Tea Party post. Those guys are idiots.
No, I didn’t mind. It is the republicans that are anit uterus. No forced trnas-uteral ultrasounds here. Free the Uterus’s!…uhhh… uteri?
Good call. Uterus-opotamuses are very important things. Why free/insured Viagra, but boo on birth control? Don’t want to get started on thinking about this. And if you’ll notice, my family (not me) hails from Idaho. It’s not only amazing that I’m not in the Tea Party, but publicly state I don’t like it. I’ll be shot next reunion for sure.
They does like their guns. But then again, so did the Nazis… just sayin’… good for you for taking a stand.
There is an airline that has special rates for people fleeing the country after the election either way it goes.
JetBlue
That sounds like a laundry detergent.
Wash that tea right out of your hair.
You’re soaking in it.
If you cut me in half, you can see where the green seeped in..
Can we count the rings and see how old you are?
Careful, my bite is worse than my bark.
(or am I stretching it too far now?)
Just leaf it alone. I mean I like it when you branch out, but you need to return to your roots.
I just soiled myself.
Okay, that’s funny.
In fact it was treemendous.
Thanks! Took a lot of effort though. I’m bushed!
Ha. Then you shouldn’t run, Forest…
This round is yours! I couldn’t have come up with acorn-ier line.
Are you saying I’m nuts???
Hey. I just saw on my phone the tweet about hating you. The thing is I don’t know how to use twitter. I can’t figure out when people say stuff to me. There is no obvious comment box like in the blogs. But I must have set my phone up wrong with a bad password or something because I can’t type into the respond thing. I can only read them When I go to find them in twitter they are so far down the list that I think I missed the conversation. I am going to try doing it in gmail, but who knows.
Also, I am going to try to send you an invite to my down and dirty secret blog… not to be talkked about here… but I have only had a little luck with that also. sorry.
Go to tweetdeck.com. Set up an account, then you can tire out to your twitter feed. Out will give you a Timeline column, an @ column with your mentions, and a direct message column.
Makes out a lot easier to track.
I got the invite (I think). I’ll sign in when I get back to a pc.
Is that tweetdec.com on the pc, or my phone? Let me try it on the computer first…thanks.
Ok, going ubergeek here. I use tweetdeck from a pc. They also have an Android, app, but I prefer tweetcaster on my phone.
When I see my 22 year old daughter she will fix my phone so I can do it on there. I am just useless. Anyway, I figured out that you were saying I hate you all because I wouldn’t let you have fries, not because I wasn’t answering anyone… I think…
Gonna have to look it up!
It is better to stay and fight the stupidity than to flee and let it fester… and breed…unapposed.
That’s a good point. And lucky for America we built our dream house 8 months ago. We’re sticking until our non-existent kids get the eff out of the house. I cannot believe how lazy and ungrateful my hypothetical children are. They’re already grounded. They DO NOT need another friggin’ video game just because the neighbor kids have one. Get a job! Ugh.
What is the matter with future potential possible might-happen made-up imaginary kids these days?
They are just way to influenced by the media and peer pressure. These not-quite zygotes are almost driving their non-mama to drink, but noooo…. Someone is thinking about their health and welfare and avoiding fetal alcohol syndrome. You see! You see fake babies! See what I do for you?! (I feel like Mommy Dearest.)
Can you put a pre-existant human being in pre-emptive time out? You should ask a republican. They believe that life starts at the first date, don’t they?…ha…
If you can’t right now, if Romney wins it will absolutely be allowed. 🙂
Among other things…
Mostly they are voting to go back to the good old days which really weren’t all that good.
And as an aside, I’d like to know how many of their older members could afford all the wheelchair scooters I see at their rallies with gov’t backed medical insurance.
That is a good point. Like my one about Romney not paying his workers enough to have to pay a lot of taxes and then complaining that they are just leaches.