Teabaggers call for return of literacy tests for voters. Oh, the irony.

[sufrommich]

Tea Party Convention's Ugly Start

Its credibility already thrown into question by rival activists, the Tea Party Convention in Nashville did little to dispel critics who say tea partiers often flirt with extremism. Former Rep. Tom Tancredo, famous for his anti-immigration politics, offered a racially incendiary opening day speech on Thursday in which he denounced "the cult of multiculturalism" and said President Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country." The line about tests carried an explosive edge beyond its schoolyard taunting: literacy and civics voting tests were notoriously used to prevent blacks from voting during segregation and were banned by the Voting Rights Act in 1964. A number of speakers and sponsors have pulled out of the convention over claims that its organizers are exploiting the movement for money (tickets are $549), but Sarah Palin, whose speaking fee for the event is reportedly $100,000, has pledged to see it through.
Read it at ABC News

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/tea-party-conventions-ugly-start/gatherings/

[Nay]

1. Now THAT'S funny. 3/4 of them won't be able to vote!

[pipi_k]

27. Hah...I was going to say 1/2 wouldn't be able to vote, but you're probably closer to reality n/t

[WileEcoyote]

2. Literacy tests could hurt the tea baggers

I mean they never even vetted the words "tea bagger"

[sufrommich]

3. Oh, I'm pretty sure it would hurt them badly. nt

[SpiralHawk]

4. Photo: Teabaggsters protesting for liturasee

[opihimoimoi]

5. How bout a CIVICs test??

[mwooldri]

34. I'll fail that test.

I have no idea how to disassemble and reassemble a CIVIC at all.

I'll just all the engineers vote.... at least they're better with cars than me.

[opihimoimoi]

36. Its all about MATH...to build a Civic requires brains and Math

but, what I meant, was, the makings of a good society using rules and shit for everyones well being...

Nah,......not gonna hoppen

[ddeclue]

6. These people are the Klan...it's obvious.

[sufrommich]

11. Yes, they are. I expect this convention to reveal a lot

more that they would ever intend to.

[Myrina]

7. Too bad they don't require a civics and literacy test for their candidates!

Would narrow the field to, oh ... ZERO!, in no time at all! :rofl:

[Ganja Ninja]

8. I can see it now.

Spell moron.

[juajen]

9. Naturally, all the pugs would pass, and the dems fail.

It's just as easy to rig tests as it is voting machines. Unless the dems grow a spine, we are doomed to repeat this mantra. "Ya'll come on now, vote just like you're supposed to do. Honest, it won't hurt a bit".

[marmar]

10. Self-PWNed

[progressoid]

33. Why do they hate the pubic option?

It's free country. Let people do what they want with their pubes!!1!

[bulloney]

12. I just spritzed my monitor with coffee reading the headline.

I just knew the story would be about those goofballs proposing to shoot themselves in the foot.

Literacy test? Most of the teabaggers I've seen aren't smart enough to know when to take a crap without being told by Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, or someone, let alone READ or WRITE.

I wonder if they realize what a literacy test would involve.

[iamjoy]

13. Just Because Some One Can Read

just because a person can read does mean that person is capable of making wise and rational decisions. Just because a person can't read English (and I am presuming they would want these literacy tests in English) doesn't mean that person isn't intelligent.

If we're talking about civics, many new citizens who chose this country know a lot more about how our government works than natural born ones.

Oh, and what about blind people? Would they have to take a literacy test?

[era veteran]

14. That's fine, test for comprehension though

[Vinca]

15. If there were literacy tests to vote

we wouldn't have to worry much about keeping a Democratic majority.:rofl: Morans!

[HughBeaumont]

16. You gotta love dumb people who think they're smart.

They're always good for a few laughs.

Kind of like those who think America was originated as a "Christian" nation. Or those who think assistance for the poor is "entitlement" while CEO lottery salaries are all right in their book because they "uuuuuuuhned" it.

[Solly Mack]

17. I don't want to cast asparagus against those who teabag

but a literacy test would have a hugh impact on the voting numbers of those morans.

Or...as they might say...host with your own peturd

[fasttense]

18. You crack me up.

I don't want to cast asparagus? My asparagus isn't even up yet.

But we could give them one of them Evil-n Would Sped Redin courses, that is being gouda.

[Solly Mack]

20. Teabaggers expands your vocabulary

Just not in ways you would think... lolol

[ChoppinBroccoli]

26. And Just Remember...........

...........you heard it here first, right here on Roller Derby.

I've been proposing intelligence tests as a prerequisite to voting for YEARS. It would ensure that no Republican would ever be elected again.

Why don't these hillbillies also propose that you have to have all your TEETH to vote too? Or that you lose the right to vote if you own any item of clothing with NASCAR on it? Or you can't vote if you own a pick-em-up truck? That would be every bit as intelligent a proposal for them.

[tanyev]

19. Is it too much to hope that the Phelps gang would protest the convention?

[Bonhomme Richard]

21. To Gods ears. n/t

[Odin2005]

22. My god, what MORONS!

:rofl:

[Lucy Goosey]

23. Well, MORANS, actually, I think...

:D

[Odin2005]

25. And IJIOTS!!!

[spanone]

24. they wish to eliminate themselves

[Toasterlad]

28. 80% Of the Republican Base Is Illiterate Hillbillies. Bring on the Civics Test!

I'd love to see them tackle "Was the United States founded as christian nation? Support your answer." And let's make it illegal for anyone who fails that test to run for office, too!

[shondradawson]

29. There was an albeit small but vocal Teabagger protest

in the city where I live. I was working nearby, and passing them, was met with furtive, hostile glances. Of course, my own face undoubtedly showed shock at the posters designed for their protest: President Obama was depicted as a chimpanzee on one of them, a gorilla stomping the White House on another. There were placards stating such as "Socialist policies are Un-American," and "Give Me Back My Money."

I asked one the the protesters if it was necessary if it was really thought effective to infuse a racist element in their cause. He replied that the Tea Party was not racist, but "patriotic. They were standing up for real Americans who want to take back their country."

Yes, well...

One is left to wonder who the real Americans are...

Civics and literacy tests were suggested by the Tea Bag party: I am one who would gladly welcome them. As the former posts suggest, it would greatly decimate the Teabaggers own numbers. (smile)

Moreover, it would emphasize to all who wish to participate in our democratic government the importance, indeed, the moral obligation to be intelligent and informed when it comes to participating in the election process. Even those of us who pride ourselves on being politically conscious or liberal minded have our own viewpoints narrowed with prejudices of various forms. Should I find myself ineligible to vote, it will force me to question my role and responsibility as a citizen of these United States, and what I could possibly expect from a democracy I do not deserve...

to answer, truly, if I am a real American.

[Maru Kitteh]

30. Just say it Tom. The only reason Obama was elected is because we have too many BLACK PEOPLE.

You racist pile of shit.

[Fly by night]

31. Yes, I want them to answer the question, "How many bubbles are in a bar of soap?", a question ...

... that was routinely asked of Black folk in my homestate of Mississippi in the early 60s. Along with interpreting arcane sections of the Mississippi constitution which some illiterate White county election officials could not even read to them.

Ah yes, the good ole days .. when all them (fill in the blanks) knew their place.

Get a life, morans.

[Lorien]

32. I'd like to see policy tests

If a voter can't name a candidates position on at least one issue, then they can't vote for that candidate. That would eliminate 99% of all of Sarah Palin's followers.

[progressoid]

35. Literacy, it's not for everyone

[sakabatou]

37. As we all knew, the movement is racist.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

38. Yeah. All of the fucking teabagger sympathizers on DU owe everyone an apology.

We all TOLD YOU repeatedly that they were a bunch of racist fucks who were hiding behind their idea of so-called "fiscal responsibility" in order to promote an extremist, racist agenda. So now they're actually against the VOTING RIGHTS ACT. Yeah, that's fiscal responsibility. :eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

39. I'd settle for a spelling test

Actually, I'd say the average immigrant could spell better than Teabaggers.

[wildflowergardener]

40. voting

Today the people in my office were saying people who don't own property shouldn't be able to vote - or people who don't make enough to pay any taxes (and there are alot of them) shouldn't be able to vote.

[Initech]

41. Yeah because they're so literate!