There is clearly a maximum IQ limit to be in the Tea Party....

[Playinghardball]

Found on the Bipartisan Report

[True Blue Door]

1. Just to play moran's advocate...

This kind of stuff is too funny to not occasionally be one of us trolling them.

[Brother Buzz]

2. I always wondered about this dude

[Doctor_J]

7. This dude is lucky the cons didn't make English the official language

or he'd be on his way to wherever they speak whatever language his sign is written in.

[n2doc]

9. Teabonia

Home of Teabonics

[meow2u3]

13. Do you mean "offical" language? Learn how to spell!

[Jack Rabbit]

16. DUzy: That would be a good reply to the next Republican who makes a reference to . . .

the "Democrat Party."

[RoccoR5955]

8. I think that he is trying to write some sort of 18th century

dialect of English, but I could be wrong.

[immoderate]

3. Looks like it's 'shopped. But that's not the issue. (If there is an issue, that is.)

Don't confuse illiteracy with lack of intelligence. This guy knows how to get attention. And though not a great speller, he can express phonetically, what he thinks he hears.

Intelligent reactionaries (oxymoron? IDTSo) use their powers, to buoy up their obstinacy, to dig in, and support their ideology. So I don't really think IQ is what you're aiming at.

I might just be bringing up a semantic argument to defend a viewpoint. But what do we do?

--imm

[yuiyoshida]

4. Its amazing he could spell

"Obama". Think he checked to make sure?

[1step]

5. Single-digit or GFTO!

[RoccoR5955]

6. LOW single digit... n/t

[JDPriestly]

10. Priceless. Are you sure this is for real, not photoshopped or staged? That's unbelievable.

We all make typos, but . . . . has he heard of dictionaries?

[murielm99]

11. Oh, it is real.

There are entire websites devoted to their spelling and grammar atrocities.

[Cleita]

21. Not always. I attended a war rally in San Luis Obispo back when Bush was

beating the war drums to go to Iraq. There was a lone dissenter with a misspelled sign calling us unpatriotic. I don't remember exactly what it said any more, but it was misspelled. I remember a protester next to me saying they should really run their slogans through spellcheck if they don't want to use a dictionary before they make their signs. I always wondered why they don't or if they are so illiterate that they don't know they need to.

[DeadLetterOffice]

12. I don't think it's a max IQ limit...

... so much as a maximum educational level. After a certain level of education, you tend to self-select out of that kind of idiocy.

[trusty elf]

14. ........

[img][/img]

[img][/img]

[helpmetohelpyou]

15. This was pretty funny by our soldiers .

It was poking a little fun at Kerry and intentionally spelled wrong but it was hilarious .

[blkmusclmachine]

17. Who really needs a working brain, when you've got a loaded gun?

[JHB]

19. Quality isn't exactly Job One...

They feel strongly about these things -- but not strong enough to bother putting some forethought into the sign nor to double-check the result.

It's not a measure of intelligence, really, but of the sense of entitlement: "I'm a Real American, dammit, so you should pay attention to my opinion even if it's as slapdash and ill-considered as my signage!"

[MissDeeds]

20. Yep. My teabagger aunt is against

teachers, professors, and education in general. I have been a teacher and professor and am extremely proud of my lifelong profession. I guess there are those on the far right who feel threatened by knowledge and intelligence in general. Wonder why that is???



Question everything, doubt nothing. Words to live by.

[Cleita]

22. I think there is both. There are some really smart Machiavellian types at one end

of the spectrum and a plenitude of low IQ ones at the other end. There seems to be no normal or average intelligence in between. I mean every time you try to put a true fact to a wing nut, they throw every straw man, red herring crap they heard on Rush Limbaugh or Fox News back at you and suddenly you realize you are trying to argue with a gerbil. I'll bet if you ask the guy with that sign if he knows what impeachment is and how it works, he won't be able to tell you.

[napkinz]

23. ...