Teabaggers: still racist assholes.

Keep promoting that Teabagging movement, Putz.

Tea Party activists are reacting to the David McKalip setback with defiance and redoubled resolve -- as well as by comparing President Obama's health-care reform plans to slavery, and by attacking TPMmuckraker.

McKalip, a prominent Florida neurosurgeon and conservative activist, announced last week that he would withdraw from the public debate over health-care reform and step down from several medical leadership posts after TPMmuckraker revealed that he had forwarded to other Tea Partiers a racist email showing Obama as a witch doctor.

In a message written Sunday night to that same Tea Party list -- part of a group of emails obtained by TPMmuckraker -- Tea Partier Kathleen Waligore wrote, apparently referring to McKalip: "We lost a great freedom fighter this week," and added that she planned to "double my efforts to make up for our lost patriot." And she ripped the "liberal smear campaign" that exposed McKalip's email.