Weak Tea Indeed

Speaking of tea baggers, the mainstream media likes to push the narrative that the tea party "movement" is on a roll in electing candidates of their choosing. Not so fast. This week, tea bagging extremist Rick "Hick" Barber, infamous for his borderline seditious "gather your armies" TV campaign ad, lost by 20 points to a more mainstream conservative Rethug Martha Roby in Alabama's 2nd Congressional district primary election. Maybe Hick will declare the vote "unconstitutional" and march on Roby's headquarters. Or maybe he'll just secede from Alabama.

There's a bright side for Hick: he can sell those Revolutionary War costumes that he used in his commercials to fellow tea baggers.

All You Need To Know...

... about the 15 cells that constitute the "brain" of a tea bagger is contained in this 60 second spot for Alabama congressional candidate Rick "Hick" Barber. You can take this several ways: he thinks he's talking to people who've been dead for, oh, 200 years, or he has friends who like to play dress up. See, his alternate reality includes George Washington, Ben Franklin and Sam Adams. (Is it just me or does he have those Tom Smothers crazy eyes?) Students of history will note George Washington enacted the first federal tax and then had to call out the militia to put down the 1791 whiskey tax rebellion ("Gather your armies," indeed!). This fruitcake wants you to believe Obama started the IRS and tax code.