The Teabaggers Will Win Soon, Thanks to Gandhi

Now that Barack Obama has acknowledged that there were "folks waving tea bags around," it is only a matter of time before he concedes defeat in the great struggle against the tea people. As Red State's Moe Lane points out, this is because of the old adage, First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then you cry TEA BAGS FOREVER!! socialist hitler foreign-born tyrannical TAX ENSLAVER


...then you win. It's basically inevitable.

Moe Lane sees the tea-strategy shaping up here: "The idea here - I think - is to get and keep the attention of the forces of reaction [that's us] by co-opting their own iconic imagery." SCROTA?? Anyway: "this will encourage them to make heavy-handed attempts at suppression of the movement, which will both: alienate them from the populace in general; and cause a rift with the more progressive and perceptive elements from their own faction."

So, whatever we do, we must not try to suppress the movement in any way, including ridicule, lest "progressive" (i.e., imaginary) Democrats join the tea partiers. You know, the old "I used to be a Democrat, but ever since Barack Obama said teabaggers are unserious, I believe he was born in Kenya." Because that's exactly what they want to happen.