My son plays football with some truly fine children who insist on calling him "nigger". Surely the whitest child who wears the uniform, he was initialliy confused, but I assured him that it was merely a reflection of growing fidelity with his fellow leatherheads.
Why then is it so terrible for the Tea Party movement to neuter the term "tea bagger" by employing it as a descriptor, not as the discriminator the Left would define it? Those on the eastern shore of our party must simply reject the premise that the term "tea bagger" is a perjorative.
Love the player. Hate the game. Embrace the bag.
And Glenn Beck can pat my ass any time.