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Well some people were trying to connect Sarah Palin's rhetoric with the Tuscon shooting. According to you she is not associatd with the tea party, so I get your point. I do agree that the tea party is a paper tiger, all bark and no bite. Sure they talk about revolution, blood, and guns, but in the end they don't have the gumption to pulll it off. Some of them see themselves as militants, but they are not. I think this is part of the reason some of them dislike the OWS movement. The OWS is much more militant and willing to take it to the streets. Like them or not, the OWS has a lot more cojones.
Who are you agreeing with? You're the only person saying those ignorant things, you certainly aren't agreeing with me.
He is correct. Ron Paul is not a teabagger, and tea party members don't care for him much. They see RP as anti-Israel, an American apologist, and a loon.
Exactly. I don't think RP would even want to be associated with the contemporary tea party. That would be an insult to him.
Ron Paul was the symbolic leader of the original grassroots version of the Tea Party. That was the version of the Tea Party that wanted a smaller, less intrusive government, and more freedom for everyone.
The current Tea Party is just a front for the same extreme far right social conservative wing of the GOP that has existed for decades. It has gone by many names - Moral Majority, Values Voters, Christian Right and now Tea Party.
The big clue that things had dramatically shifted was when a group that was originally formed to protest the ever increasing size of government and loss of freedom for citizens was being represented by statist, authoritarians like Bachmann. When passing laws and constitutional amendments dealing with gay marriage and abortion became a major focus of the Tea Party, any reasonable observer knew that it had been hijacked by the wackaloon wing of the GOP.
Ron Paul was the symbolic leader of the original grassroots version of the Tea Party. That was the version of the Tea Party that wanted a smaller, less intrusive government, and more freedom for everyone.
The current Tea Party is just a front for the same extreme far right social conservative wing of the GOP that has existed for decades. It has gone by many names - Moral Majority, Values Voters, Christian Right and now Tea Party.
The big clue that things had dramatically shifted was when a group that was originally formed to protest the ever increasing size of government and loss of freedom for citizens was being represented by statist, authoritarians like Bachmann. When passing laws and constitutional amendments dealing with gay marriage and abortion became a major focus of the Tea Party, any reasonable observer knew that it had been hijacked by the wackaloon wing of the GOP.
Who are you agreeing with? You're the only person saying those ignorant things, you certainly aren't agreeing with me.
So you actually think the tea parties rhetoric about revolution, splling blood to water the tree of liberty, using bullets instead of ballots, and bringing their guns to Obama and the government is NOT all talk?
I'd agree that Limbaugh has nothing to do with reality. But he's good at getting a lot of bitter old farts angrier than they already are.
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You're the only person saying those ignorant things, you certainly aren't agreeing with me. 
Rush Limbaugh: “Ron Paul Has Nothing To Do With The Tea Party”
