VA Beach TEA Party

Paranoid. Racist. Wildly ignorant. What we saw on display at these Teabagging parties is exactly what ails the Republican party as it attempts to remake its sorry image. It is a political party that is wholly dependent on a slice of voters who don't have a clue about civics, history, or whether they look like raving Christianist jackasses in public.

We already saw that with the mobs attending the McCain/Palin rallies who were eager to share their bigoted, deranged views with anyone carrying a video camera. They are now enshrined on YouTube for Edition 2 of the State of the GOP Base.

Listening to these folks go on and on about taking the country back was absolutely hilarious. Taking the country back? Are you kidding me? Where were you people four years ago when the rest of us were trying to stop George W. Bush from raising taxes on working families to pay for a war we didn't need to be in? Where was the outrage then? Spare me.