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Tea partiers are great!!

"When you are arguing with a politician, you should use terms like "sir" and be polite disagree. You should not yell at them"

Says who? I agree with being polite and never mean but seriously, who the heck made official rules that NEED to be followed when engaging in debate? Don't give me some "guidelines" -- who made truly official rules that NEED to be followed?

It would have been better to refer to protestors in general in the main question, then go into the specific example of the Tea Partiers in the detailed portion. This would prevent the knee-jerk reactions you are surely to get from both sides.

Protestors generally are just common people who are excited and fired up. They aren't familiar with proper edicate in a formal debate and want to treat it as a rally.

Some people show up at debates with the express purpose of disrupting things.

But I don't think the yelling and such is typical. Could you tell me more about the debate you were watching? Who were the politicians there? Where was it held? If it was at a town meeting, I don't think it is expected that everyone be so polite as to say "sir" and "pardon me but I think your answer did not accurately address the points in my question."

At the Q and A the president had with the Republicans, Obama "answered" one persons question about the freeze on discretionary spending by talking about how the increases in NON- discretionary spending were not his fault. The asker was quiet and respectful until Obama was finished. Then he said "That is NON- discretionary spending. I was asking about the increases in discretionary spending." At a town hall meeting, the asker would have interrupted the politician by saying "I did not ask about non- discretionary spending. I asked about discretionary spending."

Politicians get NO respect from me, if they call me a Nazi....the way Pelosi did.

Some of the contributors to this tone in addressing their respected colleagues and the public was displayed by Sen, John McCain during the 2008 presidential debates. He walked over to Sen. Obama, gestured at him and made a vocal reference to "this one". How quickly some forget even recent history.

As the saying goes "the fish rots from the head down." When a respected long term Senator can refer to a colleague as "this one" without a public outcry for an apology, what can you expect from any segment of the population.

All your politicians don't respect you, they think your all a bunch of idiots who don't know how to run your own lives. So they're going to run it for you! And that includes me. So why should I respect them? Give me a reason.

I'm no Tea Bagger, but you leftist loons love to burn cars and throw shit on the streets during the G-20 Summits...

You, Your Party and Your President are GOING DOWN!!!

Because most of them are uneducated, hate-filled, racist hypocrites.

The Tea Party are not even close to the worst...liberals are and always have been the "champs" there