Ok, just incase you're wondering what it's all about - I'll tell ya.
And no doubt you'll have at least one well meaning friend today who will say, "gee all these people ... teabagging each other ... I mean maybe there's something to this!"
Give them the psychology behind teabagging and they'll be embarrassed they even stopped vaccuming the floor (or whatever they were doing to go on with their lives).
Steve Forbes' motive is to put republicans back in power. Right? Right.
Well, he's not going to do that just by sending a gajillion dollars to Sarah Palin because, well ... she's a f***ing moron. Sorry. But she is, god lover.
So this is how Steve, (and frankly how republicans all down through history get into power.)
- Identify a group of people to be your base ... your shill ... your lemings ... your angry villagers. And that's not tough to do these days. With presidential approval ratings at upwards of 70% people are motivated! They're ready to do whatever you ask, just about. Of course, you can't manage 70% of the population especially since they're pretty well happy with the way things are going finally. 30% Is a much more manageable number. Sure, they're f****ing morons, too. But you don't need a cage full of smart mice ... you just need someone to hold the rake and shake it. 30% Of the population still pines for the old days. The Shock n Awe days. They still hate the Dixie Chicks and they still think protesters are Anti-American terrorists who hate patriotic movements like waterboarding. They are stupid, they are presently unoccupied by anything too demanding, like a Grampa John campaign. They're just basically sitting there, listening to Rush every day and complaining a lot.
- Declare Mutiny on the SS Republican Party. It's a nice ship, it's a big ship. It's an imaginary ship ... because the people who are paying for the teabagging ARE the republican party. But you have to give the people who have jumped ship to go cruising aboard the Good Ship Progressive for a while a reason to come back to the sinker. Say things a lot like, "This isn't so much about parties and who's left and right. This is more about getting back to the roots and values" blah blah blah. Make it sound like the old party is dead and those people are in a prison somewhere so you regular folks can finally come and take back your imaginary ship. This step is crucial, and I can't emphasize that enough. Because it serves to help people like John Cornyn and Mitch McConnel and that Boner guy prevent ever having to do something they are loathe to do. Actual reform. They know why they lost, don't let them fool you. But they need a phase that takes a long time so it's slow and no one notices that makes it seem as though "those icky republicans that cost us the election back in the olden days" are out of the picture.
And finally ...
- Create the illusion of an upheaval. Give the small, manageable crowd of angry villagers something to rally around. Now that you have accomplished steps one and two, (eg; gathering a crowd and feigned killing the imaginary monstor that ate their heroes) it's time to make a hue and cry. "This whole government has to go!!!" Because now ... when you look around, who is the alternative? Yes, My Friends®. There is only one David to take on this Goliath. The Teabaggers. This group of grass roots angry villager puppets who, the moment the polls begin to shift into the direction of anywhere but toward Barack Obama - will completely disappear except to grab the microphone out of the candidates hand occasionally and say something stupid like,
When you have ... an Abama ... Pelosi ... and the rest o' them hooligans up there ... we gotta have our head examined!
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Just tell your friend who is worried that something's afoot that the crowd of angry villagers you are seeing on the news today isn't really "a grass roots effort." They are stage one in the psychology behind Steve Forbes' plan to get republicans back in office without having to change a single thing about themselves that got them unelected in the first place. And the little sheeple shaking their rakes and torches today ... are the same people spitting and burping on themselves yesterday.
33% Of Americans. They will always be something we have to deal with. Something we'll have to explain. Something we'll have to make excuses for when company comes over. But they are ... trust me ... completely irrelevent.