I've been away from the news all day - Was the teabagery an epic fail, or not?

BlooInBloo

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Wed Apr-15-09 05:54 PM
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I've been away from the news all day - Was the teabagery an epic fail, or not?

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MNDemNY

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Wed Apr-15-09 05:55 PM
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1. It was hugh.

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BlooInBloo

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Wed Apr-15-09 05:57 PM
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5. lol - Are you SERIES???

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tekisui

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Wed Apr-15-09 05:55 PM
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2. It was a joke.

Some cities had numbers, but no message other than 'We hate taxes'.

This was supposedly the big roll out of a year and a half project to get the pukes back. In that sense it was an epic fail.

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Mari333

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Wed Apr-15-09 05:55 PM
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3. pretty much the same people from the McCain rallies

mad, and having temper tantrums. fail.

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NeedleCast

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Wed Apr-15-09 05:56 PM
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4. It was pretty fail in terms of having any real effect

Faux is giving it a lot of attention, that's about it.

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C_U_L8R

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Wed Apr-15-09 05:57 PM
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6. The GOP has pretty much guaranteed a midterm election landslide

for the Democrats : - )))

They haven't served themselves well with this bullshit.

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BlooInBloo

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Wed Apr-15-09 06:16 PM
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8. Cool - thanks for the update folks!

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Barack_America

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Wed Apr-15-09 06:11 PM
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7. In what respect, Charlie?

Personally, I'd say that the numbers were more than I was expecting. However, the coherence and effectiveness of the events seemed to be as pitiful as one would expect. It looked like a lot of Ron Paul people went and they appeared to be th only ones with a focused message, trying to drum up support for Paul's idea of eliminating the Fed.

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Cha

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Wed Apr-15-09 07:46 PM
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17. Remember how many votes mccain-palin got..

Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 07:46 PM by Cha

a lot of whiners ready to teabag 'cause they can't accept they lost.

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HughBeaumont

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Wed Apr-15-09 06:30 PM
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9. I gotta tell ya . . . they sure showed us . . .

. . . what gargantuan failure looks like.

These weren't "teabag" parties, they were "I Hate Obama" rallies. They didn't even know WHAT they were protesting.

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MissMarple

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Wed Apr-15-09 06:31 PM
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10. From the heart of anti taxer land, Colorado Springs, from what I could tell from TV clips,

it was NOT an over whelming response. There was a crowd, but seriously, the entire park should have been packed. It was not.

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arcadian

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Wed Apr-15-09 06:33 PM
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11. It made a Joe the Plumber rally look like a McCain rally

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Bucky

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Wed Apr-15-09 06:34 PM
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12. Lots of rallies numbered in the hundreds

It was no million man march.

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bigwillq

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Wed Apr-15-09 06:34 PM
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13. It's been pretty popular

on DU.

DU is giving it tons of coverage.

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JohnnyLib2

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Wed Apr-15-09 07:10 PM
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14. heh

:rofl:

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Yavin4

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Wed Apr-15-09 07:41 PM
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15. If Obama Appeared In Any One of These Tea Bag Cities

He'd draw a crowd 1000x the size of any teabag party.

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hugo_from_TN

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Wed Apr-15-09 07:43 PM
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16. Since it got a lot of media coverage, I'd say it was successful.

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mucifer

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Wed Apr-15-09 07:48 PM
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18. Exactly! Hundreds of thousands at anti war protests and NO media coverage.

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tekisui

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Thu Apr-16-09 04:38 PM
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19. Nope.

Media coverage of a few thousand people doesn't translate to actual power or support or votes. It was a joke.

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