The NRO says 'teabagger' (giggle)

To "teabag" or not to "teabag", writes Jay Nordlinger of the NRO (National Review Online) in Rise of an Epithet. What's a conservative to do with this term:  fight it, embrace it, what?, he writes.  Embrace it. I beg you!

Despite the message the conservatives attempted to take to the White House and the organizers' gimmick, as he called it, Mr. Nordlinger did admit that conservatives started it by carrying  the following two signs: “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” and “Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You" (my personal favorite). While Nordlinger pointed out, Ma and Pa "we're losing everything" America may not have been in on the joke, I think it is safe to say everyone else was; to expect the press and we liberals to let it go was as naive as the protesters' signs.

The best of the best that Mr. Nordlinger quoted:

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was interviewing David Gergen, the political pundit. And Gergen was saying that, after two very bad elections, conservatives and Republicans were “searching for their voice.” Cooper responded, “It’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging.” He said this with a smirk.

On HBO, the lefty comedian Bill Maher commented, “When the year started, ‘teabagging’ was a phrase that referred to dangling one’s testicles in someone else’s face.” And the tea-party protesters “managed to turn it into something gross and ridiculous.”

It was indeed a noble attempt and a little too convenient to place the blame on liberals and the "discourse controlled by liberals" (head-shaking giggle). You guys do it to yourself....every time.

Examples:

George W. Bush - "I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." —second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004

George W. Bush - "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) - explaining the Internet on the Senate floor "It's a series of tubes."

One of your protesters:  

I think I can assure you, Mr. Nordlinger, the material is too good to ignore. And, by the way, to bring up the "N-word" was truly grasping at straws in your attempt to somehow make this less hilarious. The Internets, the series of tubes, and the morans are now part of the national lexicon. Look it up in the Urban Dictionary.

Update 11:19 p.m. - SNL just reminded me of this gem.

No PUBIC Option? Sure there is - see teabagging. For a bonus, there is a "Where's the birth certificate?" in the background.