Ron Paul's Tea Party Hi Jacked!

[kylebisme]

This article goes into more detail on the connection.

 

[Craig234]

She[Sarah Palin]'s an FDR Democrat...

There's wrong, and there's wrong. It says more about you who have positions so far out they're different than FDR AND Palin than it does about Palin.

 

[First]

This article goes into more detail on the connection.

That article mentions nothing about a connection that can actually be established in reality. Though we would all find it throughly entertaining if you could point out where the article mentions a substantial, verifiable connection.

 

[woolfe9999]

The "connection" so far as I can see exists, but it is attenuated at best. Basically you had these truthers, some of whom were liberals and some of whom were libertarians. At some point, Ron Paul expressed some interest in reopening the 911 investigation because he believed the government hid its own incompetence in the matter from the public. Those truthers who were libertarians then became part of a wider crowd who started idolizing Paul. After Paul's campaign failed, some of his supporters, a portion of whom were truther-libertarians, ended up joining the tea party, along with many non-truther libertarians and many conservatives. While the truther and non-truther liberatarians both initially thought of it as mainly an anti-government movement, it later evolved into a more or less conservative, pro-GOP movement. But there is no evidence that these particular truther-libertarians were the core or nucleus of the tea party, and there is no evidence of a specific group or organization that started primarily as a truther organization and then later got "co-opted" by Dick Armey or some other conservatives to become what it is now. Dick Armey's group, for example, is called "Freedom Works." Freedom Works has never been a truther organization IIRC.

- wolf

 

[Steeplerot]

Ron is a fundie Republican like his son regardless of the libertarians who were duped into donating all that cash. I do not see the problem with the modern teaparty and the paulbot one from around election time, fools and their money.

 

[Moonbeam]

I think the Tea Party started out of economic hardship and American hustle combined with the internet. It, the later, has made it possible for ordinary nobodies to contest for fame and money by being as outrageously stupid, inflammatory, and generally as insane as the market place will support. They are our equivalent to feeding Christians to the lions as we degenerate and fall apart. The sick self hate that festers in America's backward has burst like a feted appendix.