Just when we thought the Tea Party movement could not get any more ridiculous, one company has started selling its own take on the Iraqi Most Wanted Playing Cards, except they feature politicians.
The company, Shenandoah Valley Tea Party Patriots Inc., claims the politicians in the 54-card deck are the “most dangerous progressives in Washington who are up for re-election” and encourages local tea parties to buy the cards so they can sell them at rallies.
The deck features eight Republicans and 46 Democrats, with John McCain as the ace of spades and Nancy Pelosi as the joker. The company suggests that people should mail their cards to the politicians with a message saying they will be calling their bluff on election day.
Most of those letters will probably be met with little more than an eye roll before being promptly thrown in the garbage by congressional interns, but it would not be the Tea Party if they did not throw in a couple of cheap shots.
We can’t help but notice the prejudiced undercurrent. Barney Frank, a prominent and openly gay representative from Massachusetts, is portrayed as the deck’s queen of hearts. It is this kind of immature behavior that makes the entire movement seem more like poorly veiled hate than legitimate politics. It has to stop.
The political divide in America is hitting an all-time high, and it baffles us that this is considered acceptable. While the Tea Party claims to be grassroots with members from all political parties, all we ever see are people holding up racist signs and calling people names.
