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In the discussion thread: Inge Marler, Arkansas Tea Party Leader, Makes Racist Joke At Event [View all]

Fri Jun 15, 2012, 10:07 AM

40. Soccer moms & dads

There are a great many middle class folks who are what I call "aspirational Republicans." These are folks who are personally tolerant, and in some cases socially liberal, but who identify with the ruling class and therefore vote GOP as a kind of aspirational token.

And yet these folks value respectibility and responsibility as some of their highest values: it is my hope that, with all this talk, and everything else crazy the GOP has done, this substantial part of their voting bloc will decide it's simply not respectible or responsible to be a Republican any more.

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58 replies	Author	Time	Post
Inge Marler, Arkansas Tea Party Leader, Makes Racist Joke At Event [View all]	Galraedia	Jun 2012	OP
Another teabagger shows her true colors	Angry Dragon	Jun 2012	#1
Not surprising. After all, she does belong to the "T" Party ...	66 dmhlt	Jun 2012	#50
Question ~ Why don't we see crowds of Tee Tee Party Members	goclark	Jun 2012	#56
She needs to look up "racism" in the dictionary.	geardaddy	Jun 2012	#2
Dictionaries is the work of Satan	nxylas	Jun 2012	#32
Behind all the Tea Party talk about taxes and government spending......	marmar	Jun 2012	#3
Exactly, Sir: 'Too Much Government' Means 'Don't Give A White Man's Dime To A Lazy Negro'	The Magistrate	Jun 2012	#22
You nailed it.	Hoyt	Jun 2012	#45
Does Mitt Romney REJECT and DENOUNCE and cut off all association with	bluestateguy	Jun 2012	#4
Of course he won't	demwing	Jun 2012	#48
Isn't it true that there are more white people on welfare than black?This makes no sense.	The Wielding Truth	Jun 2012	#5
That was my reaction.	libinnyandia	Jun 2012	#16
hey, when have facts & reality ever impacted the T-baggers' delusions?	wordpix	Jun 2012	#39
were any of the black people in the audience offended?	Enrique	Jun 2012	#6
DUzy! - n/t	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#10
ROFL	alcibiades_mystery	Jun 2012	#17
At first I read that as:	JAbuchan08	Jun 2012	#31
Jebus that's just about as blatantly racist as you can get.	denverbill	Jun 2012	#7
In the Ozarks? Srsly?	KamaAina	Jun 2012	#8
It's Baxter County,	Art_from_Ark	Jun 2012	#21
I used to live in Springfield	Alcibiades	Jun 2012	#37
Baxter is 96.9% white, but isn't among the poorest counties in the country.	sinkingfeeling	Jun 2012	#41
Didn't they through Clinton, "end welfare as we know it"?	BumRushDaShow	Jun 2012	#9
Shhh!! Welfare reform never happened!	KeepItReal	Jun 2012	#14
Is she still a board member?	drm604	Jun 2012	#11
Not the only racist at a meeting for a racist organization?	harmonicon	Jun 2012	#33
Why are their leaders on the defensive? This is what they really believe in.	Dash87	Jun 2012	#12
2 crimes: One is the joke. Two..it's a lousy joke.	BlueJazz	Jun 2012	#13
Some of the commenters over at the HuffPo article sound just like	citysyde	Jun 2012	#15
What a dope.	marble falls	Jun 2012	#18
The Tea Party Anthem:	Dawson Leery	Jun 2012	#19
Sometimes - I am left totally aghast	Smilo	Jun 2012	#20
She Was Supposed to Save That One for the Evening Rally	AndyTiedye	Jun 2012	#23
I have head that same joke back in the 60s in the south.	zeemike	Jun 2012	#24
Inge Marler is a piece of fucking shit.	Zoeisright	Jun 2012	#25
I have lots of tea party relatives	abelenkpe	Jun 2012	#26
Well, there's a shocker.	tabasco	Jun 2012	#27
Why am I not surprised?	sakabatou	Jun 2012	#28
what is wrong with those Tea-Baggers and	bayareaboy	Jun 2012	#29
..	Jamaal510	Jun 2012	#30
Soccer moms & dads	Alcibiades	Jun 2012	#40
The teabaggers are really going out of their way to show how "not racist" they are.	ScottLand	Jun 2012	#34
nothing more than a kkk rally disguised as a tea party event. nt	Javaman	Jun 2012	#35
I'm just glad that all the posters who once pretended	Blue_Tires	Jun 2012	#36
+1	Alcibiades	Jun 2012	#42
she needs to wake up as a poor kid in Amerika - what an ass	wordpix	Jun 2012	#38
Made the 'Washington Post' as well. Again, I wonder why I live	sinkingfeeling	Jun 2012	#43
The reality of it is that they were allowed to make their racist point and stir the pot of racism.	olegramps	Jun 2012	#51
I bet her Uncle-Brother-Husband told her that joke.	JoePhilly	Jun 2012	#44
nothing new	heaven05	Jun 2012	#46
Not all Teabaggers are racist.	KevTucky	Jun 2012	#47
But, are all racists Teabaggers?	olegramps	Jun 2012	#52
I think you have that backwards.	hughee99	Jun 2012	#55
The Confederacy Lives On	demwing	Jun 2012	#49
does she know that the majority of welfare recipients are white? And in Red States? n/t	progressivebydesign	Jun 2012	#53
Too bad that the historical fact that the US was built on the back of slave labor...	Indi Guy	Jun 2012	#54
The real meaning of the tea party.	sarcasmo	Jun 2012	#57
No wonder bin Laden hit us.	The Wizard	Jun 2012	#58

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