#'s on the Teaparty

[Adios]

I have a plan. After careful consideration I have decided to start preaching to the Holy Speed Limit Sign in my yard. I will develop a reputation and thereby earn a place as a re-educator in the coming camps.

Yes, I intend to profit from your misery.

You need to get someone to take videos of you cursing out the sign on a shitty cellphone camera as if they were spying on you from a car or adjacent trailer and then post them on youtube.

Excellent idea. You sir, have a future in the coming Dark Ages.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

The only problem I see is whether or not those are percentages of population, or percentages of people who actually vote; and it appears that Tea Party members are more likely to vote.

The average percentage of eligible voters who actually cast a ballot during midterm elections is about 37%. Now, the math on this makes my head hurt, so I'm going to make a rough example:

100 eligible voters, with 10 tea partiers.
Only 30 people vote, but that contains all 10 teabaggers, leaving 20 non-bags.
As typical, the non-baggers are roughly equal, so 10 vote D, 10 vote R.
Whichever way the baggers vote, wins the election.

Hurray for voter apathy.
So if the Tea Party does nominate their own candidate for the presidency then were guaranteed 4 more years of Obama.

[Doktor Howl]

The only problem I see is whether or not those are percentages of population, or percentages of people who actually vote; and it appears that Tea Party members are more likely to vote.

The average percentage of eligible voters who actually cast a ballot during midterm elections is about 37%. Now, the math on this makes my head hurt, so I'm going to make a rough example:

100 eligible voters, with 10 tea partiers.
Only 30 people vote, but that contains all 10 teabaggers, leaving 20 non-bags.
As typical, the non-baggers are roughly equal, so 10 vote D, 10 vote R.
Whichever way the baggers vote, wins the election.

Hurray for voter apathy.
So if the Tea Party does nominate their own candidate for the presidency then were guaranteed 4 more years of Obama.

Who would you prefer?

[LMNO]

Palin/Beck, 2012: "THE MAYANS SAW IT COMING."

[Cramulus]

[Cain]

The only problem I see is whether or not those are percentages of population, or percentages of people who actually vote; and it appears that Tea Party members are more likely to vote.

The average percentage of eligible voters who actually cast a ballot during midterm elections is about 37%. Now, the math on this makes my head hurt, so I'm going to make a rough example:

100 eligible voters, with 10 tea partiers.
Only 30 people vote, but that contains all 10 teabaggers, leaving 20 non-bags.
As typical, the non-baggers are roughly equal, so 10 vote D, 10 vote R.
Whichever way the baggers vote, wins the election.

Hurray for voter apathy.
So if the Tea Party does nominate their own candidate for the presidency then were guaranteed 4 more years of Obama.

Who would you prefer?

At this stage, the only difference would seem to be speed of decline.  Hell, Obama is even deporting more immigrants and has been more strict on abortion funding than Bush, in addition to emulating his War on Terror/Executive privileges/secrecy/bank-loving hardon.  The next crop of Teabaggers will of course be worse, then be followed by Democrats who emulate them while appearing all nice and spineless etc etc until policeman are given the legal power to whack people for looking at them funny and every reporter who doesn't toe the Beltway line is in Gitmo, or one of it's Afghan/Iraqi equivalents.

[Doktor Howl]

The only problem I see is whether or not those are percentages of population, or percentages of people who actually vote; and it appears that Tea Party members are more likely to vote.

The average percentage of eligible voters who actually cast a ballot during midterm elections is about 37%. Now, the math on this makes my head hurt, so I'm going to make a rough example:

100 eligible voters, with 10 tea partiers.
Only 30 people vote, but that contains all 10 teabaggers, leaving 20 non-bags.
As typical, the non-baggers are roughly equal, so 10 vote D, 10 vote R.
Whichever way the baggers vote, wins the election.

Hurray for voter apathy.
So if the Tea Party does nominate their own candidate for the presidency then were guaranteed 4 more years of Obama.

Who would you prefer?

At this stage, the only difference would seem to be speed of decline.  Hell, Obama is even deporting more immigrants and has been more strict on abortion funding than Bush, in addition to emulating his War on Terror/Executive privileges/secrecy/bank-loving hardon.  The next crop of Teabaggers will of course be worse, then be followed by Democrats who emulate them while appearing all nice and spineless etc etc until policeman are given the legal power to whack people for looking at them funny and every reporter who doesn't toe the Beltway line is in Gitmo, or one of it's Afghan/Iraqi equivalents.

Sure.

I'm kind of hoping for a Palin/O'Donnell victory in 2012, just to make the whole thing at least amusing.

[Cain]

You know the really funny thing?

There is probably at least one guy in every major government in the world who is right now being forced to create scenarios based on the assumption that Palin or someone very much like her will become President in the next 4-12 years.

BEST.  JOB.  EVER.  It's like writing Apocalypse Porn...only with access to classified documents at the same time.

[Cramulus]

  that is a hell of an image

[LMNO]

You know the really funny thing?

There is probably at least one guy in every major government in the world who is right now being forced to create scenarios based on the assumption that Palin or someone very much like her will become President in the next 4-12 years.

BEST.  JOB.  EVER.  It's like writing Apocalypse Porn...only with access to classified documents at the same time.

Cain, can I borrow that?  It's awesome.

[Cain]

Sure, feel free.

[Adios]

The only problem I see is whether or not those are percentages of population, or percentages of people who actually vote; and it appears that Tea Party members are more likely to vote.

The average percentage of eligible voters who actually cast a ballot during midterm elections is about 37%. Now, the math on this makes my head hurt, so I'm going to make a rough example:

100 eligible voters, with 10 tea partiers.
Only 30 people vote, but that contains all 10 teabaggers, leaving 20 non-bags.
As typical, the non-baggers are roughly equal, so 10 vote D, 10 vote R.
Whichever way the baggers vote, wins the election.

Permission to use requested.

[LMNO]

Granted, certainly.

[Adios]

Granted, certainly.

Thank you, kind sir.

[East Coast Hustle]

I fully intend to vote for Romney in the republican primary. And not as a joke.

Feel free to pile on now.