They Aren't Misled, They're Dumb and the GOP Prefers It This Way

This is my point exactly.

Two different profiles of two very stupid tea baggers.

Via WaPo-- 57-year old tea bagger and former militiaman Mike Vanderboegh of Alabama, incites violence on his blog against Democratic lawmakers for passing health care reform.

Key passage that should have been the headline:

"Vanderboegh said he once worked as a warehouse manager but now lives on government disability checks."

Via The Times-- Diana Reimer 67 from Pennsylvania, a legend in the Republican PAC and tea bagger financier, FreedomWorks, says she's on a mission to stop HCR and that time is not on her side. She quit her job to join the tea baggers, or what she describes as her "calling."

Key passage that should have been the headline:

"She and others who receive government benefits like Medicare and Social Security said they paid into those programs, so they are getting what they deserve."

This is not merely a case of being misinformed. This is strictly a case of being dumb. We just had a solid year of a GOP misinformation campaign against HCR precisely to keep people dumb. It is their only hope. Misinformed would be if these people didn't realize they were receiving government benefits, but clearly they realize it-- they gladly tell the press they are. Dumb is lacking the natural characteristic to realize they make no sense at all.

The GOP did not line up opposition against Democratic reform efforts with a plan of their own. Instead we had a year of "death panels," socialist takeovers, a sudden and fake return to what they call fiscal sanity and the predictable fear of Big Government inefficiency controlling our lives, all brought to us by the Republican Party. The closest thing they had to a plan of their own was a very ineffective amendment introduced by John Boehner while their senate caucus preferred to do nothing at all. Their plan all along was to organize tea bagger protests instead of offering valid alternatives to what they labeled as destroying America as we know it. Their best shot at not only governance but also reclaiming power is to keep people as dumb as possible.

When I say tea baggers don't have a clue as to what they are protesting, I'm being as honest as possible. They really have no clue. Most are on welfare, disability, Social Security, unemployment or some other government social program and are simply mad a Republican is not still in the White House. They are no more against government programs than Republicans are against tripling the national debt. The dumber Republicans can keep them, the better the GOP looks. That's why I would love to see a poll that measures what percent of tea baggers are on some form of government assistance. It has to be close to 20%. What would be so wrong with asking a question that burns to the core of their very movement???