Gary Peters Spits Out Teabagger

Democratic Congressman Gary Peters let his hate and disgust for the Tea Party movement show at an Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority candidate forum when he referred to his Republican opponent Rocky Raczkowski as a “tea-bagger.” He later went on to say that those who attend Tea Party rallies are "close-minded" and guilty of "creating a polarizing rhetoric." The forum was held at the Bloomfield Township library and most of the crowd were women.

Congressman Peters, talking in a library talking to a crowd of mostly women, called his opponent "someone who places his scrotum in the mouth of a sexual partner". Yep, if you use the word 'teabagger' as an insult, that's what it means (wikipedia actually has a picture). Peters, who speaks often about wanting to run a clean campaign, used as an insult a sexual term that means to squat on someones face and rub their genitals in their face.

I apologize about being so gross with this, and I really hate to explain the meaning of the term on here, but this election is for adults, and to have someone running for Congress who uses such an inappropriate term in front of a crowd like that at a setting like that demonstrates that Congressman Peters isn't adult enough to hold office any more.

Further, teabagging is more common in the homosexual community than it is in the heterosexual community, and found its way into usage several years back as a way of insulting heterosexual people by calling them homosexual. In other words, if you think gays are bad people and sick people, you call someone else gay by calling them a teabagger. Its usage is very similar to when people call something they think is stupid or wrong "gay"; this also is inappropriate because it is offensive. So Gary Peters obviously is communicating his feelings about homosexual behavior, and by using teabagger as an insult, he may be communicating that he views gays as insulting. For them to turn around and vote for him after this sort of message would be wrong.

Lastly, let's take a look at exactly what Gary Peters find so distasteful that he'd result to using vulgar and offensive terms to describe someone else. Peters thinks that people who like the US Constitution are sick and disgusting individuals- they're teabaggers. Peters think that those people who want a balanced federal budget are the kind of people who engage in deviant sexual acts- they're teabaggers. Peters thinks that citizens who want to reduce taxes are gross and vulgar and reduces them to simply teabaggers. He identifies those who believe in the Tea Party Movement as those who engage in teabagging. That demonstrates what Gary Peters believes at his core, which is proven too by his voting record- that Peters is a tax-raising, Constitution-hating, taxpayer money spending liberal.

For the record, I take offense when candidates use vulgar and derogatory terms to describe their opponents, and feel that in a republic like ours there is no place for these kind of disrespectful and offensive statements.

Democratic Congressman Gary Peters has a solid conservative opponent in this election who will fight for the citizens of our great nation and maintain the respect and honor of the office. I suggest that anyone who is offended by Peters donate to Rocky Raczkowski's campaign by going to http://www.rockyworksforus.com/.

UPDATE: Thank you readers of RedState, who have also picked up on this story.

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