Reply #19: I don't agree with ignoring them.

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Ref. tazkcmo "Ignoring them is the best thing
because they're to old to abort."

Those teabaggers are dangerous. The evisceration of the health care bill wouldn't have been so easy if the teabaggers hadn't been out there whipping up hysteria about "socialized medicine" and drowning out the more reasonable voices. Too many voters are buying into the teabagger bullsh*it.

I have the Chris Matthews book "Hardball", which is sort of a political survival manual. (Yeah, I know Matthews can be a dick, but this book actually has some good advice.) One of Matthews' commandments is "Leave no shot unanswered." I totally agree with that.

I assume you all know about the old conservative "big lie" strategy - repeat something often enough and it becomes the truth. If progressives don't start seriously challenging the teabaggers' propaganda, teabagger ideology will become the new "conventional wisdom" and "common sense".