Uzique wrote:
i haven't really been following the tea party movement much but i'm a little alarmed to see ron paul cited as the 'founder' of the movement.
what's that all about? the last time i saw ron paul running for the presidency he was just some rogue that everyone was laughing at or being oddly struck by.
The tea party was founded as a libertarian movement. It was quickly co-opted by everyone who felt dissatisfied with the Republican Party. Everyone from gun nuts, to social ultra conservatives flocked to it. It started as a small government, classically economically liberal group of people and then morphed into the idiocy it is today once Sarah Palin and Fox News dug their filthy paws into it in an attempt to control the message. I was a fan of the tea party when it first came out, weird men in revolutionary garb and all. Now it's full of people that know the correct catch phrases but don't have a fucking clue about economics and most of them really couldn't care less. As long as a candidate says he'll vote to cut the budget and cut taxes that's enough for them, then they move on to making sure the American flag pin in his suit is correct and that he praises Jebus.