Teabaggers, Christine O'Donnell & other crazies

The Republican Party has been splintered by the crazy Tea Party and since Obama didn't turn water into wine the moment he set foot in the White House, Democrats seem to be wandering in the wilderness. As Bill Maher suggested on Larry King Live last week, Obama has been successfully painted as a "foreigner," a Muslim and a Manchurian Candidate who has hijacked the soul of America.

Republicans and Democrats have allowed these myths to flourish, giving rise to the Teabaggers, who claimed to be only interested in fiscal conservatism but have allowed the lunatic right wing to became the face of the movement. The Teabaggers have ripped the fearmongering page from the GOP playbook and their rallies have become racist, bigoted, fringe gatherings attended by people short on facts and long on paranoia. I am a fiscal conservative, but a social liberal -- always have been. If the Teabaggers had kept on message they might have held some interest for more moderate Democrats, but the Teabagger movement is too right even for some right-wing Republicans. Karl Rove, for instance.

Because Republicans have had the rug pulled out from under them and Democrats are struggling to hold onto even a spark of the energy Obama brought to the party two years ago, Teabaggers have grabbed the media spotlight and they aren't letting go. While the face of the Teabaggers has been Sarah Palin, she's temporarily passed the mantle to her doppelganger, Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell. The Teabaggers have thrown money at her and lifted her up as the future of the movement, despite the fact that her personnel file is chock-full-o-crazy.

Last week, O'Donnell's Christian-crazy views were spread virally across the web as an old appearance on MTV surfaced where she claimed masturbation was ungodly. Uhhhh, boy...  Then, on Friday night, Bill Maher rolled out clips from his old Politically Incorrect show where O'Donnell talked about dabbling in witchcraft. Over the weekend, O'Donnell played the Palin card and cancelled appearances on two of the big Sunday talk shows. Maher says he has clips of her saying other crazy stuff that he plans to air every Friday on his HBO show until she comes on and explains herself. I love Bill Maher.

While being anti-masturbation and pro-witchcraft is amusing and makes for good soundbites, O'Donnell's fiscal past is seriously troubling. She was sued by her university for not paying her tuition, defaulted on her mortgage and claims to be living off "savings" and doing PR consulting work for unnamed clients. There are allegations she's living off campaign contributions. She's never held public office, obviously has no concept of money and has aligned herself with right-wing religious groups against abortion, sex, gay rights and believe "Biblical principles" should be applied to government. The Teabaggers are so desperate to get one of their own in the Capitol, they'll turn a blind eye to all this and throw a few million her way. It's absolute insanity.

Speaking of insanity, Teabagger senate hopeful Jim Miller from Alaska believes millions should be denied unemployment benefits, wants to dismantle social security, the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Arts and wants to repeal Obama's health care reform. He's more scary than O'Donnell because he doesn't appear to have any skeletons in his closet other than he likes to rail against Obama turning America into a godless, socialist nation. Give me a frickin' break.

Look, I totally get wanting to go against the "establishment" in Washington, of electing someone who will wade into the shark-infested political waters and make change, but are the Teabaggers so desperate for their own brand of change that they'll send unqualified, fringe-types to get the job done? That appears to be the case.

Comments

christine said…
Right on, Collin! You would be a great guest on Bill Maher. I love his show too. I'm glad his hiatus is over.

This post is so clear and logical– all I can do is shake my head in disbelief that she has won a freaking primary.
Anonymous said…
Now that's some good analysis. The Tea Baggies totally blew it by letting the religious nuts get all the air time.

GAV
Cleo said…
Yeah I think any pretense of the TeaBaggers just being about fiscal responsibility and small government is out the window. That sham didn't last long. They're definitely pushing a fundamentalist agenda here. Just like Palin has dropped any pretense now that FOX is anything but a PR arm for the Republican party and the Teabagger express. You know this is all going to implode I just hope it does before midterms. I think especially the 180 that Carl Rove, of all people, had to make just demonstrates how scared the Republican leadership is of this monster they helped create, and now have absolutely no control over.
Jennifer Perry said…
Imagine if you had been in a very long coma, wake up and see all this insanity in the news. Would you think you were still out of it and having nightmares, or pray to crawl back in the coma?
Collin Kelley said…
I often think I'm living a nightmare when I read the news. It makes me wonder if the human race is devolving.
Maggie May said…
Collin totally off topic, but thank you for your lovely and honest reply to a recent post of mine. It was generous of you to share so personally...and it helps. It helps me. xo
ps
you are certainly NOT devolving.
How ignorant, small minded and bigotted of you "writer" on refering to them as "teabaggers"

We all know what "teabagger" is code for -> cracker/honkey etc..etc.. and it's reverse racism dont care if you're caucasion yourself!

...Why does the "Left" hate Intellectual free thinkers??...Must we all buy into the "Collectivism Model" they are propagating on us?
..While these so called Pseudo Intellectual elites are in our pockets?



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Collin Kelley said…
Oh, Mr Right...how wrong you are. Teabagging is a sex act involving the mouth and genitals, usually of two people unless you're really flexible. Look, the Teabaggers chose the name, so if they're upset about it now, they should have done a little homework. Or maybe asked Larry Craig.

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