Aren't Republicans and teabaggers the same thing?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/15/AR2010031503730.html

By Dana Milbank

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Dick Armey is intellectually versatile: The former leader of House Republicans went from being a rainmaker for a Washington lobbying firm to being the unofficial leader of the anti-Washington "tea party" movement.

But his latest avocation, historian of early America, may be his most intriguing role yet. As head of FreedomWorks, the group that helps to fund and coordinate tea party activists, Armey went to the National Press Club on Monday afternoon in advance of Tuesday's tea party protest in Washington, to present some of his historical findings.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Armey

Dick Armey

Richard Keith "Dick" Armey (pronounced /ˈɑrmi/; born July 7, 1940 in Cando, North Dakota) is a former U.S. Representative from Texas's 26th congressional district (1985–2003) and House Majority Leader (1995–2003). He was one of the engineers of the "Republican Revolution" of the 1990s, in which Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of Congress for the first time in four decades. Armey was one of the chief authors of the Contract with America. Armey is also an author and former professor. After his congressional career he worked as a consultant and advisor.

All baggers are Pubs. But not all pubs are baggers.

Sure, the 'baggers would rather rape a newborn lamb than vote for a Democrat. However, I like the way they tank the chances of viable Republican candidates in favor of crazy-assed weirdos.

Ya know how they keep looking forward to a big win in November? This is going to be fun.

Yes there is no difference. It is all marketing.

The GOP brand name was toxic after the Obama win, so Armey and the other GOP strategists devised the Tea Party as the "New and Improved" GOP as a means to harness all the conservative hatred of Obama and his legislative agenda in order to beat the Dems at the ballot box.

When all is said and done, the only difference between the Tea Party and the GOP is the former will occasionally take a shot at the GOP, but not often. Remember the screaming fits the teabaggers launched at the town hall forums if someone ragged on GWBush? When all is said and done, the teabaggers don't blast the GOP as much as Dems do their own party.

Teabaggers are like the peasants who "found a witch" in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They're a mob driven by hatred.

Overall though, Republicans are a mob driven by greed.

So there's a difference.

But not all Republicans are teabaggers, is what I'm getting at

my friend and I decided we'd tell her we were "teabaggers" and she said, so you're Republicans?

I'd say yes, they are the same, even they admit it.

I'm sure there are some tea partiers who are libertarians.

same things

Your subject line is not clear. I did not vote. I think they are the same identity.

I know many moderate conservatives who think the Tea Party is the worst thing that's happened to the GOP in decades and fear it may fracture the party (or result in a number of third-party tea party candidates running in house/senate elections that would split the conservative vote).

My dad is one. He generally votes Republican but is fairly moderate, especially in terms of social issues. He can't stand tea baggers, Palin, etc. and (on the plus side) it has encouraged him to take a longer look at politics and move him to the left (or, maybe it would be better to say he has generally stayed put on the political scale while conservatives as a whole move further right).

place to vent while actually believing they've left the Republican Corporatist Party.

Re-branding as in Blackwater/Xe with about the same substantive change, once those former Republicans ie: Dick Armey and his ilk come to power as Tea Partiers, they will still be corporate supremacists through and through, a leopard can't change it's spots and neither will they.

Any legitmate Populist sentiment in the Tea Party movement will be sorely dissappointed.

It's even gone so far that Sarah Palin warned tea partiers at a rally (for a $100,000 speaking fee I might add), that "we're a two party system" and it's time to "pick a side." GOP money has been rolling in immediately after Obama's election.

In reality the tea parties aren't really about any real ideology. They're anti-Obama rallies mainly, but also anti-Democratic in general. All these side issues like "small government" and "lower taxes" are just smokescreen. And BTW, middle class taxes are the lowest they've been in 50 years.

but not all Repukes are tea baggers. Some Republicans are neo-cons and paleo-cons. I think the tea baggers are basically knuckle dragging imbeciles that are too stupid to even fit into the paleo-con or neo-con mold.

Rand Paul is a Libertarian teabagger nut, as is his father. Yet both now use the label Republican now. The GOP is actually in a position to lose several seats to teabaggers this year. Even though they're running under the same party they're not the ones getting the formal support from the GOP.

So are they the same? Not really, and yes.