I agree with Glenn:
IS “TEABAGGER” THE NEW “N-WORD?” No, but when I hear someone use it, I know that nothing they say on the subject is worth taking seriously. Either they’re deliberately using it as a sexual slur, or they’re too ignorant to be worth listening to.
Or both.
“Teabagger” is the new “n-word,” if the “n-word” you mean is “neocon.” “Teabagger” has joined “neocon” and “trickle-down economics” as red-flags that no real thought is going on in the user’s head. That used to be true of “fascist,” but Jonah Goldberg has helped restore that to its historical meaning.
Fnord.
I agree with everything that Billwick1 says. I would add that anyone who uses the term “teabagger” as a serious term indicates by doing so that he chooses to rely on left-wing MSM sources for his information, and is thus out of it.
I prefer “Afterbirthers” — those who demand to see Barack Obama’s placenta.
Like his Kenyan grandmother? Does anybody dispute that his pregnant mother was in Kenya? Was it the practice at the time that very pregnant woman were restricted from flying? When did his mother arrive in HA?
How hard is it to get a political operative to lie? Why do we only see a COLB rather than a birth certificate that everyone else seems to have no problem coming up with? Why the great expense to hide his history?
I don’t know which of the three hospitals he was actually born in.
Would his mother have any reason to misrepresent the truth to provide her son with American citizenship? (Which would not require any psychic knowledge that someone calling them afterbirthers might ridicule people with.)
Whatever the truth is, there is certainly enough strangeness surrounding his history to leave people wondering.
Also, arresting journalists for attempting to legally find records in Kenya and forcing them to leave the country… what’s that about?
I’ve been tempted to use the term “tea-bagger” in order to neutralize it, the way “Whig” and “Tory” were neutralized.