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Teabagger Heroes Humiliated At The Polls

The Central Scrutinizer

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The big three, the standard bearers for the Teabagger movement, not only lost, but two of the three were humiliated.

Let's take a look:

Sharron Angle did the best of the three, only losing by 5%.

Christine O'Donnell was crushed in Delaware, by a relative unkown - 56%-40%. That's called a "smackdown".

In Alaska, nutjob Joe Miller lost to....are you ready....a freakin' write-in candidate!!! Do you understand what I'm saying? A write-in candidate!!! How humiliating is that?

Ahhh....I know what your thinking now. What about Rand Paul? Well, what about him? He was (and has been all along) endorsed by the Libertards. Why aren't they getting credit for his win?

Am I missing anyone? Those were the big three or four.

But what about the Republican wave, you ask? The teabaggers endorsed them! I would argue the republicans wuold have had big gains, teabaggers or no teabaggers. Those candidates they did endorse, likely would have won anyhow.

I think the press is over playing the teabagger story. But it's the hot story right now, but will quickly fade. Wait until the "teabagger" candidates get to congress. Not a single one of them will introduce any bills to balance the budget or cut government in any meaningful way. Not one. And the teabaggers who held the rallies back home will wonder where it all went wrong.
 
I wouldn't dismiss the teabaggers so readily. They really did have an effect on this election. If they had gone and started a third party, this could have been a Democratic landslide with the tea party siphoning off votes from the Republicans.

I do agree that it will be interesting to see what all these new freshman tea party Republicans actually do in congress. I wonder how they will react given that they ran at least somewhat on a throw the bums out platform and now they will have to kow-tow to the old guard Republicans.
 
One could create a thread detailing the humiliating defeat of all the Democrat heroes, but it would be just as juvenile as this one.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
I think the press is over playing the teabagger story. But it's the hot story right now, but will quickly fade. Wait until the "teabagger" candidates get to congress. Not a single one of them will introduce any bills to balance the budget or cut government in any meaningful way. Not one. And the teabaggers who held the rallies back home will wonder where it all went wrong.
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What I think is fascinating, or from what I saw on CSPAN this morning, is the anger from the democrats! I don't know what they expected? Democrats sat by for the last year laughing at the tea party, carried on like it was no big deal, showed their empathy towards politics and now they're angry! They should have been angry earlier in the year!

...or at least a little more serious!
 
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arthwollipot said:
It amuses me that people other than me are calling them "teabaggers".
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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.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
In Alaska, nutjob Joe Miller lost to....are you ready....a freakin' write-in candidate!!! Do you understand what I'm saying? A write-in candidate!!! How humiliating is that?
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And that wasn't a loss, not yet at least! Lisa Murkowski was the write in candidate and she had lost in the primaries to Joe! This leaves Alaska undecided!
 
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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Oh, so when they're discussing how Obama is a socialist communist born in Kenya, we shouldn't call them teabaggers. Got it.
 
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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I do agree, it's the same thing as those who toss around 'socialist', 'communist' and 'progressive'.

BTW: Teabaggers self-identified themselves as such until they found out it had another meaning. Sometimes people like that need to be snickered at.
 
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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Oh, I don't live in America, so all I get to do is snicker on the sidelines. :)
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
Oh, so when they're discussing how Obama is a socialist communist born in Kenya, we shouldn't call them teabaggers. Got it.
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If your goal is to be no better than those referring to Obama as such, then congratulations. But IMHO, you should aim higher than that.
 
Spindrift said:
BTW: Teabaggers self-identified themselves as such until they found out it had another meaning. Sometimes people like that need to be snickered at.
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The leader of the teabaggers in St Louis was jumping up and down on TV, exitedly referring to herself as a "teabagger" back in January of 2009. Who am I to not honor her wish? Unless and until she contacts me to tell me otherwise, I will refer to her and her party mates as teabaggers.
 
GStan said:
If your goal is to be no better than those referring to Obama as such, then congratulations. But IMHO, you should aim higher than that.
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I can't have a discussion with them on a higher intellectual plain. They won't understand a thing I say.
 
I think the biggest loss for the Tea Party, was the CO governership, where they actually fielded a candidate, Tancredo, as an independant.

Had they endorsed the Republican instead, they would have easily won, but by running against the 'Establishment Republican' they split the conservative vote and gave the governership to the Democrat.

I just don't see how the Colorado TP can spin this loss as anything other than a complete failure of strategy at the least.

I agree that there was a lot of Republican gains nationwide, but not sure how many of them were true Tea Party anti-establishment types and how many were establishment GOP.
 
Mooseman said:
Has Joe miller lost?
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Hard one to call. Last I saw Miller had about 35%, and total write-ins were 40%. If we assume that all write-ins were for Murkowski than he probably lost. Not sure how many of those were for such perrenial write-in candidates as Micky Mouse and Luke Skywalker, though?
 
cwalner said:
I think the biggest loss for the Tea Party, was the CO governership, where they actually fielded a candidate, Tancredo, as an independant.

Had they endorsed the Republican instead, they would have easily won, but by running against the 'Establishment Republican' they split the conservative vote and gave the governership to the Democrat.

I just don't see how the Colorado TP can spin this loss as anything other than a complete failure of strategy at the least.

I agree that there was a lot of Republican gains nationwide, but not sure how many of them were true Tea Party anti-establishment types and how many were establishment GOP.
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On a semi-related note, the governor elect - John Hickenlooper - is the brother of filmmaker George Hickenlooper, who dropped dead last week.

ETA: Cousin, not brother.
 
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cwalner said:
Hard one to call. Last I saw Miller had about 35%, and total write-ins were 40%. If we assume that all write-ins were for Murkowski than he probably lost. Not sure how many of those were for such perrenial write-in candidates as Micky Mouse and Luke Skywalker, though?
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Plus it will be interesting to see how they sort out the inevitable misspellings of Murkowski.
 
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