"If Tea Baggers were honest, rational & serious they'd *JOIN* OWS.
But then, they're 0 for 3 in that regard."
Actually, it's the OWieS who fit that description, not the Tea Partiers.
Honest: OWieS claim to be respectable, law- abiding citizens whose movement is completely nonviolent, even as reports of acts of violence committed by Occupiers continue pouring in. OWieS claim to represent 99% of Americans, evan though a) not even 3% of American citizens agree with their positions let alone 99%, and b) Many OWieS are wealthy trust- fund brats who are a part of the very same wealthy upper class they portray as evil incarnate. Do those things sound honest?
Rational: OWieS are drug- addled, deranged sociopaths who, when asked what their goals/ demands are, usually ramble out a laundry list of extremely unreasonable if not completely insane demands. These are people who got extremely violent when businesses (i.e. McDonald's, street hot dog vendors) refused to give them free food. Does that sound rational?
Serious: When city officials requested that Occupiers send a representative to negotiate with and thus learn the OWieS' demands, the OWieS sent a dog (Though, in fairness, the dog is probably the intellectual superior of at least 95% of the OWieS). Is that something that serious people part of a serious movement do?
So, it's the OWieS, not the Tea Party, that are 0 for 3 in that regard.