[Coleus]

A Tea Party rally in front of the Statehouse in Trenton on April 15, 2010.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

They tend to seize on the first thing they encounter and then employ it to describe the rest.

"The Blind Men and the Elephant" by John Godfrey Saxe comes to mind. (Well, to my mind anyway!)

[righttackle44]

The Tea Party? LOL. Our local newspaper, the Arizona Republic, thinks that the Republic of Georgia is the one where Atlanta is located.

[Deagle]

They will never be able to look outside of their insulated shell - which is okay, they are as blind as the politicians to the changes that they helped wrought...

[VoiceOfBruck]

It’s called cognitive dissonance, the inability to comprehend something that doesn’t align with one’s preconceived notions.