will the teabaggers resort to their guns when nothing changes?

[spanone]

we know nothing will change in congress except for more gridlock should the minority become the majority.....

in the end, no one will win.

i suspect the hatred for democrats we've seen this election will be distilled into hating one man for 2012...President Obama.

no end in sight.

[onehandle]

1. They say they will resort to guns. When Obama isn't impeached, they will go nuts. nt

[HopeHoops]

2. Teabaggers are wimps. They may HAVE guns, but they'd be afraid to use them.

Although they are actually dumb enough to think that one hunting rifle would be sufficient to take on an entire fucking police department.

[formercia]

8. ....and they would give it up for a Snickers Bar.

Most of them are a bunch of posers. What's dangerous is the Grassy Knoll scenario, where the PTB sets up some patsy.

[HopeHoops]

20. Oh BULLSHIT! They wouldn't give up their guns for a Snickers Bar - UNLESS....

...UNLESS it was a deep FRIED Snickers Bar - they'd sell their own mothers for one of those!

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Tell that to the folks shot at the Holocaust museum

or the people at the Unitarian church in KY.

[HopeHoops]

21. Different subject - that's the handywork of nutjob hatemongers.

The "take up arms" nutjobs seem to be primarily racist, but they don't have anything but loud words to go on.

[WinkyDink]

23. And you are confident of this "distinction" because?

[Atlatl]

30. Oakland cop killer Lovell Mixon

killed four police officers with a handgun. Look at the hysteria John Mohammad and Lee Boyd Malvo created in the D. C. metro area a few years back...

[TheKentuckian]

3. The only change they care about is Reich wingers in office

and failing that anybody but a (D) regardless of actual policy.

It just really isn't about what is going on but who is driving the car off the cliff. Sure, they'll bitch about the effects of the wreck once they are upside down in the ravine but the driving is not their motivating concern.

These are the morons who are stoked up to furious anger about taxes in the wake of a tax reduction. They are purely corporate sponsored footpads desperately fighting against their own interest in the favor of economic royalists.

[The Uncola]

4. They may indeed resort to guns, but...

.. like all cowards, as soon as someone starts shooting back, they will turn tail and run. Bullies are only as tough as you let them be.

[B Calm]

5. Well that's one way we can rid ourselves of these idiots. They won't

have much of a chance against our military.

[Andy823]

6. Well...

Seems like Palin is laying down the law to the republican party, either "man up" and support the teabaggers or get out of the way because they are going to "take over" the party! I see a lot of fighting within the party no matter what happens on Tuesday. Those teabaggers that do win, the ones that aren't simply republican plants, will have a tough time trying to get anything they want done. The "good old boys" in congress are not going to change their plan for anybody! I see a lot of very unhappy teabaggers being mad as hell that they were "used" by the republican party. I see Palin trying to take advantage of the anger and using them once again to try and become the new "leader" of the "new" republican party!

I also wonder how many moderate republicans are going to be sitting home on Tuesday instead of voting for the "teabagger" running as a republican in their state! Karl Rove is already pissed off, and I see a whole lot of infighting in the next two years. I see the main stream republican neocons trying to take Palin out of the picture, and I see her fighting back in order to make more money from her die hard followers! No matter what happens Tuesday, the republican party is in for a lot of problems in the next two years!

[HipChick]

19. I have the popcorn ready...Rove v Palin should be fun

[ananda]

7. Something that occurred to me yesterday.

Clearly the tea partiers are both stupid and insane. And they are being led
by the criminally insane with a method to their madness: to destroy more
and more of humanity and the planet to seek to satisfy an insatiable greed
for wealth and power.

Obviously, the tea partiers will at some point come to realize that they are
being sold down the river, too, as the economy continues to become leaner
and meaner.

Then there will be violence. The little paramilitary and militia groups will grow
and the cities will start smoking.

I think that they are being set up for this, so that the crazed leadership can
declare martial law or, at the least, increase the presence and the force of the
police state to suppress whatever is left of free speech and protest.

[johnfromokc]

17. Are most of these TP'ers crazy or...

Just misled? One thing for sure is that most of them do not think and analyze the information they see and hear. They take what Boortz, Limbaugh and Beck et al say at face value and repeat it over and over again to whoever will listen to them. I call them "conservobots". My own brother is a bot and repeats the same lines as right wing talk radio, but will argue and swear he thinks for himself...It's just a coinkydink his thoughts are lockstep with Republican talking points, lol. :rofl:

But they do have their share of outright nuts. One local forum I read has one conservobot nut that is always saying "it's time to choose sides", meaning he thinks he's ready for armed insurrection to stop those "libruls" from socializing his America. He fantasizes about dividing the country up between the left and the right. The reality is he could not handle such a scenario, but the frightening thing is this persons thought process. Or the lack of a reasonable thought process may be more accurate.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. They already have

[OneGrassRoot]

10. We'll know by the rhetoric that comes from Beck, Limbaugh and Palin. n/t

[Kurovski]

12. Sharron Angle strongly suggests it.

[Horse with no Name]

13. Yes.

It's what they do. If they can't beat it--they kill it.

[Edweird]

15. So why wasn't there an outburst after the last 2 elections?

[WinkyDink]

24. Which last two? Obama's election? They were, pardon me, hoping for change.

2004? Whut?

[Edweird]

27. 2006 and 2008, you know when there was a Dem President AND Dem congress....

I don't understand the fear mongering - there was no armed insurrection when THEY LOST and now we are supposed to believe that there will be one if they don't win? That doesn't make any sense.

[Edweird]

14. No. They are, for the most part, cowardly bullies.

[WinkyDink]

25. Your "for the most part" is quite the caveat. People, "for the most part," don't commit crimes.

But enough do.

[Edweird]

28. Yeah, that's right. For the most part. The vast, overwhelming majority.

There are doubtless some recent veterans among their ranks that would be unfairly characterized as bullies or cowards (and some that are actually bullies and cowards or worse). There are also a few nutbags that are capable of anything - but there have always been nutbags acting out. There will be no armed insurrection - no martial law. There may possibly be a few idiots arrested for being idiots - but nothing too far out of the ordinary.

[FirstTimeVoterAt37]

16. Once upon a time, I would have said no

Now violence is heralded as bravery, so who knows?

[Bitwit1234]

18. Goodness what in the world would happen if they should

step up the violence they are doing now. It would be awful. I think the FCC should find a way to take Beck off the air. I think fox should be fined everytime they spew out lies. It would be wonderful if someone could sue and get their license pulled. As well as Rush. I think political opinions can be put forth by both sides as long as they don't suggest violence and tell the outlandish lies republican media is spewing.

[DeschutesRiver]

22. A Waco here, a Ruby Ridge there, even god forbid a McVeigh OK bombing, but

beyond that? Nothing.

Certainly nothing more than what what we've already had to endure from already having these teabagger freaks in our society (before they were called baggers). I remember after each of these events that the crazies were just so sure that the rest of their "supporters/patriots" was gonna rise up and TAKE AMERICA BACK! But the rest ran back into their dens and hide like rabbits underground. Not saying the outcome couldn't be different this time, but it never has worked for them in the past and I don't expect anything different now. They couldn't pull it off when they were the majority rulers here.

They are a minority now - people who used to be "it" in society and now are coming to grips with the fact that the next generations have moved so far beyond them that they, who now call themselves teabaggrs, are irrelevant. Yeah, I know - MSM and the like are making such a very big deal of them and their ideas and their candidates, blah blah. But I really think the media attention given to these people is just more of the whole "bread and circus" deal that is really all the tea party was created to do - like in Rome, where the Coliseum provided entertainment and a way to keep their teabagger equivalents preoccupied while those in power grew more corrupt, unmolested by a populace immersed in their "entertainments" and free wheat supplies.

There is not much new under the sun regarding how people deal with one another - different methods, same motivations. A real movement/rebellion would be dangerous, and it has happened in the distant past in our country. These teabaggers aren't like that, not in the slightest, merely legends in their own minds and only on internet forums. A few crazies will pop off out of childlike frustration and madness, and the rest will wander off in search of their new circus entertainment.

[WinkyDink]

26. Waco?

[DeschutesRiver]

29. Yes, as I recall the purpose & activities of Koresh's branch of the cult

I don't think that the Branch Davidians were even anti-government until David Koresh came along.

Give me more than "Waco" so I can understand what you mean? I wasn't referring to the Fed over-reaction.

I am responding on the wingnut side of this, in response to the OP's position about a wingnut minority that threatens to use violence in response to government, whether from not getting what they want in government or from being over-governed by what was supposed to be a limited Federal goverment.