[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The tea party movement actually started in 1773.

That's true but we're talking about the modern-day Tea Party which begun during Paul's presidential campaign.

Paul and his ilk used the name for some of their little anti-war, Guy Faulks type protests, but it had nothing to do with the Tea Party protests you see around the country now

Bald-faced lie.
The Tea Parties, the people who protested Obamacare in Town Halls in August, who protested the porkulus...are all remnants of supporters of Paul's campaign. The GOP and mainstream conservatives had nothing to do with it.

[SoConPubbie]

Bald-faced lie. The Tea Parties, the people who protested Obamacare in Town Halls in August, who protested the porkulus...are all remnants of supporters of Paul's campaign. The GOP and mainstream conservatives had nothing to do with it.

And you are full of it sir!

It wasn't just Ron Paul's supporters who started this movement, it was the whole spectrum of conservatives fed up with the GOP, the DNC, with Government excess, etc.

[RowdyFFC]

Bald-faced lie.
The Tea Parties, the people who protested Obamacare in Town Halls in August, who protested the porkulus...are all remnants of supporters of Paul’s campaign. The GOP and mainstream conservatives had nothing to do with it.
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Don’t know about you, but the first tea party event early this year in Ft. Worth had absolutely nothing to do with Ron Paul...if it had, I wouldn’t have gone. As much sense as Ron Paul makes on some issues, he has the most goofball idea about the War on Terror...