Is there anything a bagger can say or do that would be considered disqualifying for major office?

[babylonsister]

Good question. I'm thinking 'no'.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/09/sunday_open_thread_6.html
Greg Sargent

In this environment, is there anything a Tea Party candidate can say or do that would be considered disqualifying for major office?

[hobbit709]

1. Evidently nothing short of child porn and I wouldn't even bet on that.

[Faygo Kid]

9. Not enough. Nor is cannibalism; FReepers would dismiss it. We are in danger.

All kidding aside, the fact that 30 percent of our nation will do whatever Fox News tells them to do is deeply troubling.

We are headed for dangerous days.

[stevedeshazer]

2. The more insane, the greater the reward.

It's like they're trying to outdo each other in teh crazy.

[Warpy]

3. When you throw out the rules of law and common decency to win

just about anything goes.

Democrats mostly play by the rules. Republicans threw them out in Nixon's time.

Either Democrats have to insist the laws be followed or follow the Republicans in throwing them out and I don't want to live in the latter kind of world.

[AnArmyVeteran]

4. How about "Hi, I'm Osama Bin Laden and I'm a teabagger".

I don't think that would disqualify them from their mutant menagerie of maniacs.

[karynnj]

13. Well - what if it was "Hi, I'm Osama Bin Laden, and I have found God and I

am now a fundamentalist Christian - rejecting Islam and excepting the one true religion." May not work for OBL, but could it work for any lower level OBL follower?

[obxhead]

5. Personally I feel everything they say is a disqualification for

any office. Well maybe dog catcher would be ok as they would be bitten at least every now and then. :evilgrin:

[Liberal Veteran]

6. "I'm a Muslim"

[immoderate]

7. Well consider there are few qualifications.

Nothing anybody could say should disqualify then from office. It should stop people from voting for them. In the current environment, it's "follow the stupid."

--imm

[baldguy]

8. Bush Eats Baby, Republicans Defend President

Republicans across the nation are scrambling to defend President George W. Bush after he ate a baby during a visit to the White House kitchen early last evening.

Eye witnesses report that the president left the White House residence at around 8:05 p.m. eastern time wearing what appeared to be a crudely stitched "woman suit made from actual women". He then entered the White House kitchen where he ate a baby with a side order of "a Cobb Salad containing raw puppy heads".

"I'm a baby eater. An eater of babies," the president told reporters this morning in the Rose Garden. "That's my job. My job is to tell the American people what I eat. And I eat babies and puppies while wearing suits of women. At least you know where I stand."

The presidential "Suit of Women" has been confirmed as having been fashioned from obese D.C. area residents who were coaxed into a nondescript van driven by Bush and his senior political advisor Karl Rove.

more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/bush-eats-baby-republican_b_7137.html

[Faygo Kid]

10. +1

[Xipe Totec]

11. Miscegenation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3eTSbC3neA

[VioletLake]

12. "I'm in favor of single payer."

"Global warming is real."

"The universe has been around for billions of years."

"Ronald Reagan is overrated."

[ZombieHorde]

14. Support social justice? nt

[Jackpine Radical]

15. Oh, don't be silly.

All one of them would have to do to commit political suicide would be to show a hint of compassion for another person. Or suggest that the birther bullshit is maybe stupid. Or point out that Sarah has the brains and morality of a goldfish.

[madrchsod]

16. nope!

[Gabi Hayes]

17. "Obama's a Christian, and a natural born American, but one thing he's NOT is a COMmunist!"

[gauguin57]

18. Being non-Caucasian?

Being a non-Christian?
Being a non-heterosexual?
Being a non-cold-hearted-bastard-who-hates-poor-people?

I suspect the teabaggers would have any of the above "disappeared" if they publicly tried to get the Baggers' support.

[clarence swinney]

19. YES

Make an intelligent statement

[Posteritatis]

20. Have any actually started explicitly making genocide calls yet?

I have a sort of horrified curiosity as to whether that would gain or lose them points, and we all know that there's no shortage of them who wouldn't mind such a thing. I know several have called to recriminalize homosexuality or outlaw Islam, but both of those seem increasingly taken for granted by these guys.