Ron Paul and how the tea party movement really got started!

[tsetsefly]

Correct me if I am wrong but didn't the "tea party"movement get started here or at least from the ron paul movement and resembles nothing of the moralistic, neocon warhawk movement it is today?(or at least perceived to be).

If I remember correctly during the campaign a supporter somewhere or on these forums got the idea to send tea bags to congressmen on the anniversary of the Boston tea party. I dont remember the timeline correctly but it might of been that same year that some just decided to gather on that day. Regardless of if it was that year (2008) or the year after but when it started it was a mix of ron paul supporters and libertarians.

NOT the warhawks and moralist we see today...

 

[Michael P]

The term "Tea Party Movement" got hijacked after Rick Santelli's rant on CNBC. Now there is two Tea Parties, the (mainstream media) Sarah Palin Tea Party and the Ron Paul Tea Party. From what I can tell there is not a whole lot of overlap between the two.

Thats my take on it all anyways...

 

[BuddyRey]

If I recall correctly, the first stirrings of the nascent Tea Party movement took place on December 16, 2007.

 

[Kregisen]

YouTube - Ron Paul Tea Party 2007 Los Angeles,Ca


Looks to be one of the first ones.....this was uploaded to youtube December 16th 2007. Ever wonder why Fox has never credited Ron Paul with this? They credit Palin or Glenn Beck and say the tea parties started in 2009.

 

[tsetsefly]

YouTube - Ron Paul Tea Party 2007 Los Angeles,Ca


Looks to be one of the first ones.....this was uploaded to youtube December 16th 2007. Ever wonder why Fox has never credited Ron Paul with this? They credit Palin or Glenn Beck and say the tea parties started in 2009.

Thanks, beck and palin hijacked the tea party movement. I remember it had started from the ron paul movement... Now its newcons in sheep clothing...

 

[Eric21ND]

Someone should make a video about the real origin of the Tea Party.

 

[Eric21ND]

YouTube - Ron Paul Tea Party Movement Goes Worldwide

 

[tsetsefly]

Someone should make a video about the real origin of the Tea Party.

I might just do that, maybe lol. My editing skills sucks but it must be put on youtube! Ive had enough of batsh*t crazy neocons like palin and odonell claiming to be tea party candidates.

 

[Inflation]

We can convert the newcomers to our cause, or concede the Tea Party to Beck and Palin.

Which one is it going to be?

 

[Liberty4life]

Heres a good one from 07

YouTube - Ron Paul - Tea Party 2007 - December 16th 2007

 

[IPSecure]

Here is a quote taken from Walter Burien (CAFR) in his speech to the Arizona Breakfast Club - April 28th 2001:

... I incorporated a group called 'Hands Across New Jersey', which grew into the largest tax protest group in New Jersey history. We had 65,000 volunteers in the first 6 months. At our first rally we had 115,000 vehicles converge on Trenton, which shut the city down... The republican party spent 1.5 million dollars to infiltrate 'Hands Across New Jersey' and take it over from the inside...

Walter Burien - Arizona Breakfast Club - April 28th 2001 - CAFR
At 4m 2s - 13m 15s

Does it bother anyone else that the guy backing Freedom Works and Palin, is the same guy who setup the department of homeland security?

So, one of the 'leaders' of the Tea Party is the GOP establishment Vice President nominee from the last sElection... Give Me A Break!

One Break, Coming Up!

 

[S.Shorland]

Everyone should copy and save that video imo. Yes,Palin is a neocon along with Beck.Look what he did to Medina at the behest of her opponent.She took over the Teaparty and will be the biggest threat to Paul when she too runs.

 

[shooter_tx]

Don't want to link directly to it on my departmental server, so here's a version I found real quick via Google Images:

 

[shooter_tx]

TeaParty07 (redirect)

Liberty Is Brewing

 

[LibertyEagle]

1773

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm

 

[shooter_tx]

1773

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm

Ha ha... yes. Thank you, LibertyEagle.

Usually when discussing this issue I take care to say "the modern" Tea Party movement.

I find it makes for fewer misunderstandings.

 

[AdamT]

See 1:25:00

YouTube - For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty

 

[klamath]

Yes RP's campaign started this latest teaparty revolution but no we did not invent it. Rush Limbaugh promoted a campaign in the '90's to send teabags to congress. Congress got thousands and thousands of teabags.
In reality the RP teaparty members have as little in common with RP's ideas as the current teaparty.

 

[Brooklyn Red Leg]

Ron Paul supporters marched through the snow yesterday from the State House to Faneuil Hall, then smashed the one-day fund-raising record for a Republican presidential candidate.

As of 10 last night, the supporters said, they had raked in about $5.2 million, surpassing the record $4.2 million they raised on Nov. 5.

Most of the donations were made over the Internet in what the supporters called a "money bomb" timed to coincide with the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. The last fund-raising blitz, which took in 40,000 donations, was timed to coincide with Guy Fawkes Day, which commemorates a British mercenary who tried unsuccessfully to kill King James I on Nov. 5, 1605.

"This basically shows that Ron Paul is a viable candidate," said Rachael McIntosh, a spokeswoman for what was dubbed Boston TeaParty07. "People are so engaged in this campaign because it's coming from the grass roots."

Ron Paul backers stage Boston Tea Party, raise millions

Ron Paul told us long ago. And so did the supporters of this one-time Libertarian presidential candidate.

Maybe you remember about 16 months ago the 11-term Texas Republican representative, who's now organized a new Campaign for Liberty, was raking in more political contributions each month than most other GOP presidential candidates, relying on his hundreds of thousands of fervent supporters staging their money bomb days of online donations and -- oh, yes – tea parties.

In many cases today’s media coverage of some 700+ tax protesting tea parties across the country ended up telling us more about the media than the rallies, which sure had some angry guests for “tea parties.”

Cable channels tended to cover and debate the events along their predictable viewership lines, with Fox News taking them seriously while acknowledging their critics, and MSNBC generally dismissing them as lame organizing attempts by a gasping Republican party that opposes Obama on everything, except maybe perhaps shooting Somali pirates dead in the head.

Was Ron Paul, tea party re-inventor, right all along?

Ron Paul Supporters Plan $10M Tea Party
by pontificator
Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:55:58 PM PDT

Love or hate him (I personally respect him, but strongly disagree with his views on most issues), Ron Paul has inspired the most remarkable bottoms-up netroots campaign this cycle (Obama is the best on the Democratic side, mostly because of his popularity among net-savvy younger voters). Their latest project follows up on their $4 million online take on Guy Fawkes day with a $10 million dollar goal for December 16, the anniversary of the iconic Boston Tea Party.

DailyKos: Ron Paul Supporters Plan $10M Tea Party

Rep. Ron Paul (R., Texas) supporters have set another fundraising record sparked by impressive online donations. This time they beat out John Kerry's one-day take of $5.7 million in 2004 with a record $6.026 million on Sunday.

This is the second special fundraiser spurred by Paul's grass-roots supporters without the help of the campaign. The first took place Nov. 5 (Guy Fawkes Day). Sunday's event honored the Boston Tea Party, which happened Dec. 16, 1773. Paul supporters in Boston staged a re-enactment of the event.

According to the Ron Paul 2008 Web site, the campaign has already crushed its fourth-quarter goal of $12 million by raising a whopping $18.2 million. Paul may be able to out-raise all of the other candidates in both parties this quarter. The leader last quarter was Sen. Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.) with $21 million.

Ron Paul's Tea Party Pulls in the Green

Ron Paul has been a political dark horse for his entire campaign, facing a virtual media black-out at the beginning of the primary season. But with a $4.2-million one-day fund raising event on November 5th, 2007 congressman Paul was able to move from presidential unknown to a candidate worth watching, at least in the mainstream media's eyes. Even with this the media resumed ignoring Ron Paul for the most part after his record setting day.

But the grassroots efforts of Paul's supporters paired with the power of the internet have marginalized the traditional media in regards to Paul's candidacy with Ron Paul's YouTube channel drawing huge amounts of traffic and supporters coming up with all kinds of ways to stump for Ron Paul including a blimp.

Tea Party 2007: Ron Paul Sets a New Campaign Fund-Raising Record

Rick Santelli and the other NeoCons like scuzzball Newt Gingrich can take their 'faux-tea party' and cram it. Fuck them!

 

[dannno]

YouTube - Ron Paul Tea Party 2007 Los Angeles,Ca


Looks to be one of the first ones.....this was uploaded to youtube December 16th 2007.

I was so THERE, maannn