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Ronald Reagan Revived from the Dead for San Jose "Tea Party"

by No More Vampires!
August 15 at extremist Right Wing Tea Party in San Jose, California. A pale faced Ronald Reagan and think-alike, look-alike friends took over a corner at one of San Jose's busy intersections. Wait... even REAGAN wasn't as extreme as some of THESE right wingers.
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The Tea Baggers were back in toxic full force yesterday.

On a positive note, the Raging Grannies were there with theater pieces that looked like Lucy's "the doctor is in" booth that they called the "Anger Management" Booth.

Most amazing were the tea baggers' ignorant and offensive slogans, including calling Senator Barbara Boxer, who was speaking nearby, a Nazi. I saw one placard equating Obama to Hitler. Let's get real, now, Hitler actually gassed people and killed thousands. To call Obama a Nazi is hyperbole in the extreme. AND....someone in the Tea Party crowd carried a sign pointing to themselves that said "Angry Nazi Crowd". They do like to throw the term Nazi around!

A member of the Green Party showed up with a sign that said "Don't be a CASH COW for the INSURANCE COMPANIES". On the back it said:

"Demand SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE—the $400 BILLION they waste is ours!"

She was wearing a "Canada looks better every day," which brought a few stares from the tea party folks. Most sneered, that is, those who bothered to READ the message; they don't appear to be big readers of political or social theory or anything that would require above an 8th grade education. Gun magazines and Harlequin Romances perhaps.

Someone on the Left watched carefully and said that a lot of the honking and drive-by responses were staged, as she saw some of the same cars come by several times. The tea baggers did get a few digital salutes! Yes, we ARE in California after all, and most people abhor the tea party extremist stance. As for the tea baggers, they must feel so marginalized living in our midst. I actually found myself feeling sorry for them at one point (the feeling passed quickly); they could use the counseling offered by a darling Lucy look-alike who had a Psychiatric Help booth.
§Tea Party T
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"Bitterly Clinging to Guns and Religion"
§One face of the tea party
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§Red White Blue theme
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§Could use counseling
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fear of being buried alive, possibly clinically paranoid
§Nazi MOB (that's what they called themselves"
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§Delusional
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§Dressed like a Republican
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§Right wing definition of "going green"
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Sign says cleaning up the environment by getting rid of Boxer is conservative idea of "going green"
§Pro Canada
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Is a REAL Green
Joined with Democrats against the Tea Baggers.
Thanks, for coming out Green Party!
§Obama's Kool-Aid
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this guy has been mad since the 60's!
§Finger wag
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Guy on right gives a left-wing Raging Granny a lecture
§Candidate for some of the Counseling the Raging Grannies Offered
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Angry Protester....
§Obama = Hitler
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Hyperbole in the extreme!
§definitely clinically paranoid
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§Sneering Tea Party Person
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§childish writing
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2nd grade logic
§refreshing sight!
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Raging Granny and another health care reform supporter
§Cowboy tells Raging Grannies a thing or two...
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..from a white dude's perspective of course
§psychiatric help: FREE
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