Sam: ‘Teabagger’ Not Acceptable

Sam: I quite disagree the term (teabagger) is becoming “mainstream,” DFO. Members of the Tea Party started to initially call themselves that because they apparently don’t discuss terms with their 20-something children or grandchildren. As soon as many of them, a significant majority in my estimation based on my interaction with members of Tea Party movements, they stopped using the term and started asking people to not refer to them in that way. The term has now been completely co-opted by liberals/progressives and their groups and is used in a pejorative manner to refer to Tea Party participants. And they’re still doing it because they know it references the sexual practice. Use it all you want, but people my age and into their 30s are not going to consider it “mainstream” in the way you do. Just trust me on this.