Who Started the Tea Party Movement?

American Preppers Network ^ | February 10, 2010 | Tom Martin

[dalereed]

“Rick Santelli and the “Rant of the Year””

I agree, he started it!!

[Ramius]

Sam Adams?

[Jim Robinson]

Here’s an early mention on FR:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024992/posts

To: Candor7

I wish we could mail teabags to mccain but security will not allow that.

Perhaps we should mail clothespins to McCain HQ to let him know he stinks.

37 posted on Mon Jun 02 2008 15:26:14 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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And another:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2191554/posts?page=1

Tea bags to the White House

certrtwngnut | 02-22-2003 | certrtwngnut.
Posted on Sun Feb 22 2009 14:28:10 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by certrtwngnut

Instead of dumping the tea in the ocean as the original patriots did, let’s each of us send a tea bag to Mr. Obama. Let them be heaped upon Mr Obama as he is heaping decades of debt upon our children & grandchildren.

[CPT Clay]

bump

[Poser]

Santelli, publicized by Beck. It’s not a mystery.

[bigoil]

You wrote,”The TEA Party movement started at the end of the Bush term when TARP was passed.”

You’re getting warmer!!!!

What most people forget is that the first TARP went down to defeat by a 228-217 vote in the House. Here we saw the first evidence of a ‘populist’ coalition of left and right.

Half of the Congressional Black Caucus voted against the first TARP and you had the spectacle of Code Pink activists high fiving the most conservative neo-con Republicans in the House and encouraging them to ‘stay strong’ and vote against TARP.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

And then McCain announced that he was ‘suspending my campaign’, and that the economy was ‘fundamentally strong’ and that was it for the McCain/Palin ticket.

McCain is no maverick and is politically inept; if he was in any way politically savy he would have embraced this new populist coalition.

He did not as he voted for the first TARP as well as the second TARP which was passed in either late September or early October of 2008.

Taxed
Enough
Already

Politicians
Are
Reprehensible
Taxing
Yahoos

‘It’s all about the Tax, stupid.’

[Jim Robinson]

Here’s another:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096053/posts

To: OCCASparky

It’s time for ‘Boston Tea-Party II’.

10 posted on Thu Oct 02 2008 13:18:32 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by maineman
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[freekitty]

We need to keep it that way. We don’t need moderate repubs or paulbots running us.

[nutmeg]

It was Rick Santelli on February 19, 2009 on CNBC.

I'll never forget his Rant of the Year!

I sure wish the Fox Business Network would snap up Santelli... he shouldn't be associated with NBC in any way, IMO.

[iopscusa]

Yep, AuntB, the GOP is eaten’up with McCain ‘Luv those Illegals’ crap. I got my bi-monthly RNC survey yesterday with it’s idiotic 2 pages of questions about how they were going after the Rats on everything with no mention of Illegal Immi nor AGW....made that comment and said I only send $$ to true Conservative Candidates + Dump McCain & Dump Steele NOW!

[iopscusa]

Thanks for posting, the Prepper’s Network is very good. good place to Take notes on reaction to Social Breakup!

[Roccus]

I remember reading references to needing a “new Boston Tea Party” here at FR in the fall of 08. Memory has it that it was around the time that TARP was going back and forth in Congress, but it could also have been after the election. Either way, it was in the fall of 08 and it was here at FR that I first heard the call.

[Roccus]

I’m thinking that’s the one I remember.