Posted on 01/09/2010 10:55:14 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
Crain's Chicago Business has just gotten into the business of indulging in foul, sexually charged name calling, apparently. Yes, you can mark Crain's Chicago Business as only the latest news outlet to decide it's funny to call conservatives "tea-baggers." It's a name that lefties have been tagging the movement with all winter, one derived from the sexually perverse homosexual practice.
This time it's the self-assumed humorist and political columnist Greg Hinz who thought it was hilarious to call an Illinois gubernatorial candidate a "Tea-bagger." In a blog post about candidate for Governor Adam Andrzejewski, Hinz broke out the funny bone and titled his offering, "Tea-bagger Andrzejewski goes for GOP gov's gold."...
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Since Tea-Bagger is an accepted term on the left, conservatives should co-op the term and call any homosexual (ie, Barney Frank, Anderson Cooper, David Shuster) a tea bagger.
Watch how quickly the left will cry foul with charges of homophobia.
Great idea. I’d love to see how the left reacts. Who do you think would have the mettle to do it? I think if anyone would do it, it would be Levin.
Or, as The People’s Cube has proposed, lefists shall henceforth be known as “fisters.”
That's one way to play it. The other way is to diffuse it by simply co-opting the term and calling ourselves "teabaggers". This would be much like the phrase "Yankee Doodle Dandy", originally a term used by the British to mock the colonial troops.
The new cry... "Teabaggers, F*** yeah!"
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