Your Seminal Teabaggerstock Moment

Courtesy TPM:

Because really, what America needs with an African-American president is more mobs implying lynchings.

[UPDATE 3:16 PM] McCain's presidential campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb sums up the entire teabagger movement in today's LA Times:

"Do we look crackpot? Yes," Goldfarb said. "But that's how the left looked to me in 2004, and in 2006 they took back Congress. Then they started marginalizing the lunatics."

Republicans only lost because Democrats "embraced the lunatic fringe" that wanted us out of Iraq and Afghanistan (which turned out to be a majority of Americans) and then threw them aside once they got control. The Republicans figure the same thing will work, because Code Pink wanting to get out of war is exactly like wanting to lynch Obama, right?

[UPDATE 3:50 PM] The Double G weighs in on the teabaggers and who controls them:

What's really happening with these protests is that the genuine rage and not unreasonable economic insecurity of these citizens is being stoked, exploited, distorted and manipulated by movement leaders for entirely different ends. The people who are leading them -- Rush Limbaugh, the Murdoch-owned Fox News, Glenn Beck, business-dominated organizations of the type led by Dick Armey -- are cultural warriors above everything else. They're all in a far different socioeconomic position than the "middle-income Americans" whose anger they're ostensibly representing. Their principal preoccupation is their cultural contempt for various groups (illegal immigrants, the "undeserving" poor, liberals) and their desire to preserve the status quo whereby the prime beneficiaries of government policies remain themselves: the super rich and the interests that control Washington. It's certainly true that many of these protesters are driven by the standard right-wing cultural issues which have long shaped that movement -- social issues, religious fears, cultural and racial divisions, and hatred for "liberals" as Communist-Muslim-Terrorist-lovers. For many, all of that is intensified by the humiliation of being completely thrown out of power, at the hands of the first black President. But much of it is fueled by the pillaging of the corporations and Wall St. interests which own their government.

Amen.