<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Donovan writes:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">"Teabaggers is an ad hominem attack, because it is an attempt to degrade some of the legitimate concerns of tens of millions of Americans by giving them a name which is perceived as an sexual pejorative."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">I think it's been stated clearly that not everyone who refers to teabaggers as teabaggers is doing so to insinuate sexual proclivity.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">At least to me teabaggers are contemporty "tea partiers" exploiting the 18th century Tea Party movement for political purposes.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">They are carpet baggers in that regard so are thus teabaggers. It has nothing to do with where they stick "it."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">To me the offensive thing is teabaggers being cocky enough to presume they speak for the original Tea Party colonists.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">There is nothing wrong with telling it like it is: that these "tens of millions" of teabaggers are part of an uncivil hypocritical movement that seems dangerous and out of touch.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">How many of them even drink tea?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">That's not to say that I don't agree with everything the teabaggers are saying, because Donovan is correct in saying they have legitimate concerns.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">That doesn't mean that they are somehow the modern day equivalent of the original Tea Partiers.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">For one thing the "taxation without representation" argument is completely different.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">The least teabaggers could have done is come up with a more modern and appropriate name if they are so offended by it.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Besides, can someone tell me what's wrong with teabagging? I'm a little confused as to the problem...</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Garrett Clevenger</p></td></tr></table>