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Essay: Tea party has roots in the Dallas of 1963
Washington Post ^ | 11/21/2013 | Bill Minutaglio

Posted on 11/21/2013 11:09:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The president is a socialist. He is neutering the United States on the world stage. He is spending us into bankruptcy. He is hellbent on expanding national health care, which will surely lead to government death panels.

He is advancing big-government agendas everywhere from Main Street to Wall Street. And do we really know the truth about his personal history and religion?

Perhaps the man in the Oval Office should be impeached — even tried for treason.

If today’s extremist rhetoric sounds familiar, that’s because it is eerily, poignantly similar to the vitriol aimed squarely at John F. Kennedy during his presidency.

And just like today, Texans were leading what some of them saw as a moral crusade.

To find the very roots of the tea party of 2013, just go back to downtown Dallas in 1963, back to the months and weeks leading to the Kennedy assassination. It was where and when a deeply angry political polarization, driven by a band of zealots, burst wide open in America.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: dallas; delusional; teaparty
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1 posted on 11/21/2013 11:09:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

A communist killed Kennedy. End of story.


2 posted on 11/21/2013 11:10:20 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey Bill, JFK was killed by a communist.


3 posted on 11/21/2013 11:10:38 AM PST by Texican72
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve heard of think tanks, buy WaPo has long been unique, a stink tank.. With few peers.. But a lot of triers.


4 posted on 11/21/2013 11:12:56 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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but


5 posted on 11/21/2013 11:13:33 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: NormsRevenge
"WaPo has long been unique, a stink tank"

Now full of smelly 0bama.

6 posted on 11/21/2013 11:13:44 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

No...the TEA party has roots from the days of the American Revolution when a patriots dumped tea over the side of ships to protest the TAXES.

MSM and other Liberal hacks disgust me.


7 posted on 11/21/2013 11:16:08 AM PST by madison10
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To: SeekAndFind

Oswald was a Tea Partier?

Coulda sworn he lived in the USSR, tried to go to Cuba, hated America, and thought Kennedy was too conservative.

Huh.


8 posted on 11/21/2013 11:16:31 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (I Love 0bamaCare! It proves government incompetence forever.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow. Sad that some believe this crap.


9 posted on 11/21/2013 11:16:36 AM PST by ilgipper (Obama is proving that very bad ideas can be wrapped up in pretty words)
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To: SeekAndFind
Starting by asserting solid, demonstrable truths:

The president is a socialist. He is neutering the United States on the world stage. He is spending us into bankruptcy. He is hellbent on expanding national health care, which will surely lead to government death panels.

... the author then devolves to an insane screeching madness.

10 posted on 11/21/2013 11:19:04 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh My G-d!

This literally the dumbest thing I have ever read!


11 posted on 11/21/2013 11:19:52 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: SeekAndFind

Mental disorder.


12 posted on 11/21/2013 11:20:31 AM PST by GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco (I love liberals. They taste like chicken.)
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To: Lazamataz; Windflier; onyx; GraceG

“Death Panels”

a hidden hit at Sarah Palin what a shock!

This author is such a putz!


13 posted on 11/21/2013 11:22:48 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is on-point.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/11/an-epic-rant-against-the-new-york-times.php


14 posted on 11/21/2013 11:23:24 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco

Yes, this “writer” is literally insane. “The TEA Party killed JFK” is one more in an enormously long line of insane fantasies invented by these basketcases for the past 50 years. JFK is mottled Id of the crazy left, a bottomless well of indulgent fantasy out of which endless delusions pour forth.


15 posted on 11/21/2013 11:28:17 AM PST by februus
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To: SeekAndFind

They did this same crap back in the 60s. Blame the South, Conservatives, gun owners etc. Although it took 5 years they used the assassination to pass the GCA of 1968 which was a really harsh gun control bill.

It has been modified a bit over the years to make it not quite as bad but it still is the worst thing ever done to gun owners.

The truth is everyone in Dallas welcomed the Kennedy’s even if they did not agree with their politics. All you could see in the crowd was happy friendly faces.

The fact that Oswald was a Communist was somehow almost totally swept under the rug.


16 posted on 11/21/2013 11:28:17 AM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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17 posted on 11/21/2013 11:28:21 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SeekAndFind

No, sorry. Try 1773...in Boston.


18 posted on 11/21/2013 11:29:39 AM PST by mom.mom
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To: SeekAndFind

Rush called this today while talking about an NYT piece.


19 posted on 11/21/2013 11:32:01 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: SC_Pete

“A communist killed Kennedy. End of story.”

No. Military/Industrial/Tea complex did it.


20 posted on 11/21/2013 11:32:08 AM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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