Did I just hear Mika saying that the teaparty gang

[malaise]

are turning on each other.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[Skidmore]

1. She started out calling them "teabaggers" at the beginning of the show

and Joe told her not to call them that and to call them "tea partiers". She mumbled something about that is what they are called, only to be told that they don't like being called that. She's just towing the line.

[DrDan]

2. earlier in the morning - her statement was that the "teabaggers" were turning on each other

Joe challenged the term "teabagger" - to make a joke, of course. Emphasized that it was the "Tea Party" - not the "Teabag Party".

I am glad they continue to make fun of these goombahs. No one is taking them seriously - just old "John Birchers" rebranded.

[Mike Daniels]

3. Joe sees the tea baggers / tea party freaks as further minimizing the Republican party

Joe makes no bones that he's a conservative.

However, he has said repeatedly that what works for a candidate in the south isn't going to work for a candidate up in New England and that this purification of the party that the "baggers" and Limbaugh are insisting on is going to destroy the party in the end.

Not exactly an Einsteinesque statement but Joe and other Republicans see the storm on the horizon that will hit big time if the baggers manage to wrest control of the party away from the establishment.

[Bitwit1234]

4. That's what a group of

bullies and hate mongers do. They eventually turn on each other because they all want to be the chief and no one wants to be in the crowd.

[Berry Cool]

5. Does Joe really think the term "tea partiers" is better than "teabaggers"?

Because, you know, it makes them sound like they're "partiers." With, you know, "tea."

Party hearty, dudes!!!!! :rofl:

[Javaman]

6. first the minutemen turned on each other then the tea baggers...

everyone wants to be king of the hill with those fools.

the circular firing squad needs more ammo! LOL