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Rand Paul’s Filibuster: Re-Claiming his Father’s Tea Party (Huh? What?)
Independent Voter Network ^ | March 7, 2013 | Chad Peace, Director of Operations and Founder

Posted on 03/07/2013 11:16:37 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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The IVN Team.

1 posted on 03/07/2013 11:16:40 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Judging by the content of the article, the IVN staff is clearly comprised of dyed-in-the-wool Paulsheviks.*

* I intend this term to be derogatory of Ron’s supporters, not Rand’s.


2 posted on 03/07/2013 11:20:57 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'll stop being a cynic when the world stops giving me reasons to be cynical.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

I call them Paulestinians, others might say Rontard, Ronulen, Paulbot, crazy whacko or any number of other terms.


3 posted on 03/07/2013 11:22:45 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Any of these Ron Paulians also participant in Occupy protest activity?


4 posted on 03/07/2013 11:22:58 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think this author may have confused the “Tea Party” with “Occupy Wall Street.”


5 posted on 03/07/2013 11:23:06 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

They just know that he’s anti-war, anti-Israel and pro-Marijuana. That’s all they need to hear.


6 posted on 03/07/2013 11:24:08 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chad Peace? LOL.


7 posted on 03/07/2013 11:25:07 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Without the underpinning of moral absolutes, mere fiscal "Conservatism" is an empty vessel. Bring pro-God, pro-life and pro-gun are at core of authentic Conservatism. All else then logically follows in line.

The inhabitants of Sodom and Gommorah may have very well favored low taxes and a small government. If so, that didn't make them Conservative. Having they turned away from God, they were nothing but liberals.

8 posted on 03/07/2013 11:30:14 AM PST by re_nortex
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

75% of the women in the picture are not guilty.


9 posted on 03/07/2013 11:31:38 AM PST by Perdogg (Sen Ted Cruz is my adoptive Senator, Rand Paul for President in 2016)
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To: TADSLOS
I think that’s actually his real name. I chuckled, too, when I first saw it, but delving deeper into the bowels of that website, it seems he’s the head honcho of that disparate little group of hippies.
10 posted on 03/07/2013 11:32:46 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: Perdogg

Yeah, I was a good looking man when I was 23 years old, too. Let’s see where they are 30 years down the road.


11 posted on 03/07/2013 11:34:29 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think the third from the right has staying power.


12 posted on 03/07/2013 11:35:38 AM PST by Perdogg (Sen Ted Cruz is my adoptive Senator, Rand Paul for President in 2016)
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To: 1rudeboy

Yeah, notice how they act like Rick Santelli’s rant on CNBC - which gave name to the tidal wave movement that was building - is something that just sort of added on to Ron Paul’s massive movement.

What a bunch of Paul-tards indeed. And yes, I exempt the Rand Paul folks from that term.


13 posted on 03/07/2013 11:36:23 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Looks like a groupthink cult photo to me. Yet they claim to be independent (thinking) voters. Hippies. They’re like weeds. You can dig them up, spray them out, but they still manage to sprout out of nowhere.


14 posted on 03/07/2013 11:37:13 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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Oh, you're going to love this:

Jane Susskind – @JaneSusskind

Jane is the Social Media manager at IVN, administering all social media channels for the network. With a B.A. in Political Science and Religion from the University of California, San Diego, she has always been involved in politics, working as a government relations intern in the Sacramento Office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and down in the San Diego Office of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Focusing on the growing importance of online communications in the political sphere, her role is to facilitate conversations, allow for open dialogue, and update you on what’s going on with IVN and in politics.

15 posted on 03/07/2013 11:42:09 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: a fool in paradise

>> “Any of these Ron Paulians also participant in Occupy protest activity?” <<

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Actually, most of Ron’s following are fairly wealthy techies (engineers, programmers, etc) and are more likely to be protested by the Occupy zombies.


16 posted on 03/07/2013 11:43:43 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: TADSLOS
Looks like a groupthink cult photo to me.

Except for a possible Oriental, they're all white in that picture. Contrast that with the real Tea Party which does have members of all colors:

I am by no means an advocate of forced diversity or multiculturalism. Yet true Conservatism just naturally crosses all color lines and ethnicities.

17 posted on 03/07/2013 11:44:19 AM PST by re_nortex
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To: C. Edmund Wright

>> “Yeah, notice how they act like Rick Santelli’s rant on CNBC - which gave name to the tidal wave movement that was building - is something that just sort of added on to Ron Paul’s massive movement.” <<

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AFAICS they are two separate movements, but at the point in 2012 that TEA Party Express began their cross country trek, the two had melded together on those rallies, and there was a vocal Ron Paul contingent at each of them.


18 posted on 03/07/2013 11:49:48 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is such a lie.


19 posted on 03/07/2013 11:53:54 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Are we talking about the same Tea Party?

It had nothing at all to do with Ron Paul. Not that it was actively hostile, but it was not a Ron Paul operation in any way.


20 posted on 03/07/2013 12:01:15 PM PST by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave)
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