Going through my archives, I noticed I have written substantially about tea baggers. More than I had realized actually. In the list of labels "tea baggers" is second only to "Obama." And third if you count "Bush" and "Bush Legacy" as essentially being about Bush.
So some would say I have a tea bagger fetish. Okay, whatever. I'm not proud, I'm just saying I've been writing about tea baggers longer and more consistently than I had realized.
Consistent is a good word because from the very first post I wrote about the tea bagger crowd, I called them what they were, Republicans. Consistently I have argued the tea baggers are not a separate faction of anything, are not a party of their own, are not a subset of non-political people. They are nothing but the Republican base, and I've said this since day one.
Seemingly I was a lone voice crying in the wilderness.
After watching the media and even liberal or Democratic bloggers try to decipher what these people were and where they were coming from, I began a sort of tea bagger truthiness campaign acknowledging the media when they would accurately label tea baggers as Republican; while also highlighting polling data clearly showing tea baggers as nothing but Republicans.
It took months, apparently almost two years, but now the blogosphere is united and The Fold Blog is relishing. Mission Accomplished!
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