The poster Vladius said it well yesterday regarding the tea baggers:
From the responses here I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
For
all you teabaggers out there I have some bad news for you. First of
all, you are a minority, not some mass movement with broad appeal. The
last election proved it and the results from New York reinforced it as
well. You can all rally at The Capital and teabag each other all you
want. The fact is that your movement will never see any results at the
ballot box, which if you're not paying attention is where it really
counts. But please, don't let that stop you. Go ahead and run your
nutball heros like Sarah Palin. Waste your time and money. At the
voting booth the average American will vote based on common sense and
reject your whole ideology.
You people are not a political
movement. You more resemble a bowel movement. All you are are angry
little monkeys flinging shit about spouting gibberish to anyone who
will listen.
I thought that this pretty much defined their place and the limit of their strength.