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Attended the St. Paul Tea Party at the state capitol today.  Anywhere from 5000 to 10000 people showed up.  From having attended past rallies, for both sides of the political spectrums I know that conservatives generally just don\’t show up for these type of things and so it speaks volumes that over 5000 conservatives showed up.  Especially when one considers that there were at least a dozen other options at the same time in Minnesota.

Now many conservatives were there.  And the impressions from the conservatives point of view will be analyzed to death.  I\’m a little curious from the liberals point of view….what their thoughts were.  So I put on my waders and got a tetanus shot and waded into the cesspool of liberalism….the Democratic Underground.

Single sentence response to so-called Tea Parties:

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man\’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
—John Kenneth Galbraith

It\’s a fairly complex sentence, so that might confuse some of the Teabaggers, but then, they would have been confused by clear, rational, independent thought, regardless.

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No I understood it pretty well.  Actually I\’m more curious at where you got your definition of selfishness.  I\’d regard wanting to keep money OTHER people earned is more selfish than wanting to keep the money I earned.

Let\’s call these \”Tea Parties\” for what they really are – white power rallies

These idiots are nothing more than a bunch of pissed off rethugs and cowardly \”libertarians\” who are pissed off that a black president is spending \”their\” money. It eats them alive that their beloved decorated war hero didn\’t win, that Rove couldn\’t steal a 3rd presidential election, so now they\’re taking to the streets in protest. These morons are bound by their hatred of two things – Obama and brown-skinned immigrants. Listen to any right-wing talk show, and you\’ll hear hateful vitriol spewed forth on a daily basis towards both of these targets.

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Actually most of us were pissed off at Bush\’s spending far before Obama\’s election.  That\’s what the Porkbusters movement was all about.  That\’s why Bush had such low popularity even among conservatives.  That\’s why he faced revolt amongst conservatives about his drug plan.  Now we\’re beyond pissed off, when Obama is making Bush look like a penny-pincher.

And I challenge you to find me a mainstream right-wing radio show spewing hatred towards brown-skinned people.  And it\’s pretty intellectually vacant of you to automatically apply racist undertones towards honest disagreements with a President who happens to be black.  Project much??

BEST Case Scenario For The Teabaggers, Each Teabag Party Averaged 300 protesters

PJTV said over 700 Teabag Parties.

PJTV Says 208,058 people turned out nationwide.

That averages out to less than 298 people per Teabag Party if their estimates are correct.

And most likely, they\’re over-estimating turnout.

Just USing PJTV\’s Own Numbers.

BTW, that would be less than 0.07% of the population gave enough of a shit to come out and teabag.

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Oddly enough your anti-war rallies gathered similar numbers and at the time people like you claimed it was overwhelming public opinion.  It\’s was a national movement that symbolizes a growing swell of discontent.  Except that your protesters were paid for and organized at a national level by groups like Code Pink.

The Tea Parties are grassroots.  Nobody paid for them and no one organization organized them.  Despite your claims of funding and organization by Fox News.  Fox News and the rest of the networks jumped on the bandwagon AFTER this had been going on for months.

Since conservatives like to quote our forefathers on their ideals on liberty and freedom, they should be reminded that the original \”tea party\” was about taxation without representation.

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You are correct.  And that\’s why the populace hasn\’t revolted, in the real sense of the word, yet.

And we are expressing our displeasure to our elected representatives in a way that was specifically permitted by the very same people that took part in the original Tea Party.

As usual, liberals just don\’t get it.

[Crossposted at True North, comments welcome]