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Fumesucker

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3. Teabaggers are a top down astroturf organization largely funded by the Koch brothers and others

Reply to cali (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 8, 2013, 07:11 AM

Feb 2013

The very same people with the very same attitudes have been active since the heyday of the John Birch Society back in the fifties.

They may be ignorant in many ways, often deliberately, but a lot of them are far from stupid and they are nothing if not persistent in pursuing their goals.

Come down to red state America, ignorant and stupid is wildly popular with a massive swathe of the population.

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I'm convinced that most crazy proposed repub state legislation is posturing [View all] cali Feb 2013 OP

If they are so stupid why have they been drinking our milkshakes for the last thirty plus years? Fumesucker Feb 2013 #1

because they haven't been "drinking our milkshakes" for the last 30 years cali Feb 2013 #2

Teabaggers are a top down astroturf organization largely funded by the Koch brothers and others Fumesucker Feb 2013 #3

I get Cali's point ewagner Feb 2013 #4