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Teabagger Heroes Humiliated At The Polls

cwalner said:
Murkowski needs about 88% of the write-ins to be the winner. This is possible, even probable, but at this point, by no means certain.
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Given the state that most American's handwriting has deteriorated to, I'm willing to bet that the haggling over individual ballots will last longer than the Fanken/Coleman fight.
 
Tony said:
Obscure? I knew what "teabagger" and "teabagging" meant over 10 years ago. If anything, it demonstrated how out of touch those people were with the mainstream.
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I would think mainstream America had no clue what this meant. Maybe the fact that you think mainstream America would have know this shows how out of touch you are with the mainstream.
 
Alferd_Packer said:
Given the state that most American's handwriting has deteriorated to, I'm willing to bet that the haggling over individual ballots will last longer than the Fanken/Coleman fight.
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If I voted for her, my balot would only be a problem if there was another candidate whose last name began with M (or N or W) :o
 
Alferd_Packer said:
Wouldn't that have qualified as a sexual assault?
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Yeah. They were in big trouble (now that I think about it, I think they were expelled), I can't recall any details about criminal charges though.
 
eeyore1954 said:
I would think mainstream America had no clue what this meant. Maybe the fact that you think mainstream America would have know this shows how out of touch you are with the mainstream.
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I'd never heard the team before the Tea Party and still don't know the alternative (original?) meaning and quite frankly don't care.

But knowing how politically correct my friends in the Tea Party are, I'll refrain from using it ;)
 
GStan said:
The OP pretty much discredited its own premises with ad hominem, poisoning the well and confirmation bias.

(And I LOVE Scrut! However, the tea party movement has plently of both ideas and candidates sufficiently flawed that one does not have to argue against them on their level.)
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Calling them what the wish to be called is an ad hominum? Really?
 
tyr_13 said:
So people would rather whine about the label 'teabagger' than discuss the actual premise of the thread? Not surprising.
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Right. Let's examione Scrut's typically erroneous premise. 2010 election winners whom Palin endorsed:

Rand Paul

Kelly Ayotte

Rick Perry

Michele Bachmann

Nikki Haley

Tim Scott
 
tyr_13 said:
So people would rather whine about the label 'teabagger' than discuss the actual premise of the thread? Not surprising.
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Were the teaparty heroes humiliated at the polls? These 3 lost but humiliated?

In the case of Reid vs Angle in the last election Reid got 1.7 votes to each vote the republican candidate got. In this election Reid got 1.1 votes for each vote Angle received. Reid has been the incumbent for 24 years. I would not consider that to be a case of a "teaparty hero being humiliated".

Miller is in a close race and may lose to a write in candidate. But that write in candidate is the incumbant. That is not a humiliation.

O'Donnel?? I don't know a relative unknown got 40% of the vote is that a humiliation. Especially considering all the things that came up about her.

In general the elctions as a whole were the opposite of teaparty humiliation at the polls
 
Ignoring the political aspects, I'd say that anyone who has played a multiplayer FPS that had a crouch button knows what a teabagger is.


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DavidJames said:
I'd never heard the team before the Tea Party and still don't know the alternative (original?) meaning and quite frankly don't care.

But knowing how politically correct my friends in the Tea Party are, I'll refrain from using it ;)
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I don't consider it political correctness I consider it common courtesy.
 
eeyore1954 said:
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O'Donnel?? I don't know a relative unknown got 40% of the vote is that a humiliation. Especially considering all the things that came up about her.

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....not to mention the fact that she's intellectually challenged, (to put it nicely.)
 
GStan said:
Trudat! And it also serves as a nice indicator to distinguish between people who want to carry on a meaningful worthwhile discussion and people who just want to snicker like an adolescent who has discovered a new curse-word.
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True, but no one forced some supporters to put teabags in their caps...
 
Cicero said:
Right. Let's examione Scrut's typically erroneous premise. 2010 election winners whom Palin endorsed:

Rand Paul

Kelly Ayotte

Rick Perry

Michele Bachmann

Nikki Haley

Tim Scott
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And the losers..... (hint: the number is greater than the winners)
 
eeyore1954 said:
Were the teaparty heroes humiliated at the polls? These 3 lost but humiliated?

In the case of Reid vs Angle in the last election Reid got 1.7 votes to each vote the republican candidate got. In this election Reid got 1.1 votes for each vote Angle received. Reid has been the incumbent for 24 years. I would not consider that to be a case of a "teaparty hero being humiliated".
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Besides Pelosi, Harry Reid was the most targetted Democrat. In a state with the worst unemployment in the union and in an election where incumbent Democrats were dropping like flies, losing to Harry Reid was an embarrassment. It took a special candidate to lose to Reid and Angle was just the teabagger for the job.

eeyore1954 said:
Miller is in a close race and may lose to a write in candidate. But that write in candidate is the incumbant. That is not a humiliation.
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Losing to a WRITE-IN candidate is not an embarassment? Only the 2nd time in history of Senate races that it's ever been done. Miller gave it away, Murkowski was going to not mount any big effort until Miller was exposed as a loon and a hypocrite.


eeyore1954 said:
O'Donnel?? I don't know a relative unknown got 40% of the vote is that a humiliation. Especially considering all the things that came up about her.
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Giving away a guaranteed Republican seat to the Dems is not embarrassing?

eeyore1954 said:
In general the elctions as a whole were the opposite of teaparty humiliation at the polls
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In general maybe not, but in some high-profile cases it was very humiliating.
 
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