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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
The problem here is this. The TEA Party (everyone keeps telling me) is mostly made up of old white people who are completely out of touch with popular culture and norms. People like that aren't exactly going to be "hip" to the meaning of the term, especially since they were very obviously applying it to the act of mailing a tea-bag to a legislator. The folks who've since applied the term -to- them, such as Mr. Cooper, are -very- much aware of the word's meaning and have used it as such. One was a malapropism, the other is an insult, and a fairly obscene one at that.
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I think what you are forgetting here is just how insanely funny it is to have an opponent who kept shouting that they were teabaggers. It was hilarious. I miss that.
The funniest comment I've seen on the topic is that the these conservatives should come up with a new, anti-Democratic Party name: Donkey Punchers!
Ah, 2009. Those were good times.