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Libertarians and the Tea Party
American Thinker ^ | 3/13/2013 | Ann Kane & M. Catherine Evans

Posted on 03/13/2013 5:30:16 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross

As we pondered this question, we also wanted to know when and where the two groups intersected. We started with an informal survey. We asked several people the following question: when do you think the Tea Party movement began? They answered: when Rick Santelli ranted on the floor of the Merc in Chicago in February, 2009.

But our research into the history of the Tea Party took us back to 2004, to its first inklings as an organized force for rousing ordinary citizens to fight back against big government. In that year, Libertarian David Koch founded Americans for Prosperity, a nonprofit political advocacy group set up to educate the public on the principles of free markets.

Even though the term "Tea Party" was not used then, Koch's vision of "a mass movement, a state-based one, but national in scope, of hundreds of thousands of American citizens from all walks of life standing up and fighting for the economic freedoms" pretty much describes the movement we see today.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: libertarians; santelli; teaparty
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To: SaraJohnson

Are you talking the LP or libertarians? There is a HUGE difference.


61 posted on 03/13/2013 6:27:48 PM PDT by cizinec ("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
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To: cizinec; SaraJohnson
Are you talking the LP or libertarians? There is a HUGE difference.

There is NO difference.

62 posted on 03/13/2013 7:46:09 PM PDT by ansel12 ( August 29,2008 A Natural Born Reformer inadvertently unleashed within palace walls, change ensues.)
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To: cizinec

Scratch a libertarian, and you find someone who wants no restrictions whatsoever on porn, dope and very, very creepy sex. That was not what our Founders had in mind, and not the kind of worldview that.I want anywhere near me - even tbough.I live in NYC and am far from being a prude.


63 posted on 03/13/2013 9:16:19 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: freedumb2003

Guess what, I don’t endorse gay marriage, pedophilia, or the wholesale dissemination of dope without restrictions. So if someone is breeding children for the purpose of sex traffick and pornography, and selling crack on the side- yes, I have a problem with that, and no, I don’t want it left alone.


64 posted on 03/13/2013 9:21:55 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

>>Guess what, I don’t endorse gay marriage, pedophilia, or the wholesale dissemination of dope without restrictions. So if someone is breeding children for the purpose of sex traffick and pornography, and selling crack on the side- yes, I have a problem with that, and no, I don’t want it left alone.<<

well, the good news is you are only 50% wrong.

OTOH, you are 100% wrong in reading what I posted.

So I score you net 75% wrong (I used easy math for ya)


65 posted on 03/13/2013 9:50:07 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Establishment Republicans don't like that totalitarian thing unless it is THEIR totalitarian thing!)
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To: kabumpo

>>Scratch a libertarian, and you find someone who wants no restrictions whatsoever on porn, dope and very, very creepy sex.<<

Scratch a generalist and you will find a strawman “argument.”


66 posted on 03/13/2013 9:51:18 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Establishment Republicans don't like that totalitarian thing unless it is THEIR totalitarian thing!)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

A govt cant make people moral, but cant they encourage it?


67 posted on 03/13/2013 11:02:41 PM PDT by TheGunny
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To: freedumb2003

No, over the years I’ve met a lot of libertarians. Amoral dissememblers to a man


68 posted on 03/14/2013 6:40:54 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: TheGunny
“We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion.

Exactly - government can't make a people moral.

A govt cant make people moral, but cant they encourage it?

Encouragement doesn't happen at the point of a gun or through the bars of a cell. I'm all for encouragement of morality - but I'm skeptical that government is the right entity for the job.

69 posted on 03/14/2013 2:12:48 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies
Encouragement, like allowing children to pray in school, and at football games. Like acknowledging the same God that we acknowledge in our Constitution and not prohibiting or running from it.
70 posted on 03/15/2013 8:18:15 AM PDT by TheGunny
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To: TheGunny
Encouragement doesn't happen at the point of a gun or through the bars of a cell. I'm all for encouragement of morality - but I'm skeptical that government is the right entity for the job.

Encouragement, like allowing children to pray in school, and at football games.

That's not encouragement but an absence of coercive discouragement. I'm all for it.

Like acknowledging the same God that we acknowledge in our Constitution

What form would you like to see such acknowledgment take?

71 posted on 03/15/2013 9:39:59 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: montanajoe

I too have noticed many strange postings that were not common on FR before. It is all about through everything against the wall and see if it sticks. This is the same social anarchy that you see on the left. Libertarians care about the ecomony but they don’t seem to get anything else.

Where are all these pro-gay marriage, pro drug legalization, get government out of marriage people coming from? They are like little kids who think they can change the world from scratch. Who do they think they are? Sound more like Paris in the 1790’s then the USA of
Washington, Jefferson etc. The United States survived because we didn’t have a bunch of crazy radicals running our revolution. Unlike the French Revolution, the American Revolution respected God.


72 posted on 03/24/2013 6:35:30 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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