pdowd,
I apologize for bringing it up on a public forum, but there was no other way.
This is something that's been bugging me for a couple of years. When the filthiest sort of name calling begins to come into general parlance as something that's supposed to be FUNNY, it bugs the heck out of me.
I don't think "tea bagger" is funny, and name-calling is certainly not witty. I think that the term's wide spread usage is primarily due to mind-numbing levels of IGNORANCE on the part of the sheep who use it. They honestly don't even know what they're saying.