“...the “teabaggers” and somehow devised the notion that the movement “asked for” the derogatory name.”
Just like that chick in the miniskirt was just *asking* to be raped!
“Tea-bagger”? Was bedeutet das?
If it identifies the people who want to take their country back, well, then we wear the label with a glowing pride. Whatever it may mean to those who place the label on us, the term is much like “Yankee”, a name bestowed upon the original American patriots by their English oppressors.
And from that, we got “Yankee Doodle Dandy”. An appellation that still feeds the American populist spirit.