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Give me just ONE example of tea partiers calling out "elitists" or "elites", just ONE.

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DaveinJapan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 07:23 AM
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Give me just ONE example of tea partiers calling out "elitists" or "elites", just ONE.
That was the challenge I was given by a teabagger today.

It came on the heels of her claiming that Communists and other bad guys attacked "the elite" first. So I replied that the rhetoric from the right was all the more ominous due to that historical fact.

She then claimed that they did no such thing.

I want to reply with one hundred quotes. Any help would be appreciated. ;)
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:52 AM
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1. Who would you quote? They'd just say "they're not the teaparty..."
The teabaggers are all Republican, right? But if you want to find 1,000 Republicans saying something about the elite, they'll say "Oh, they're not part of the teabag party"...

And so we have the Teabag Party. Who is the "official" spokesperson? Sarah Palin? Michele Bachmann? YOU and I would think, but seeing there is no such thing as an "official" teabag party ("teabag" out of pure ridicule), they'll be glad to exercise one of their Republican word tricks. (and the teabag party IS the Republican party)

Similarly, when you try to nail a "libertarian" (in quotes because they only want "liberty" for themselves and the rich) on something like letting sick people die on the street outside of a hospital, they'll say, "Oh, I'm not THAT kind of Libertarian...".

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