Ron Paul started the Tea Party

[teaparty]

...and Ron Paul will be proven right eventually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement

The origins of the current Tea Party movement can be traced back to circa 2007. The movement's beginnings were kick-started by Republican Congressman Dr. Ron Paul in 2007. His GOP presidential campaign received a 24-hour, record breaking, money bomb on December 16, 2007;[SUP][22][/SUP] which is the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. This event directly contributed to creating a libertarian revival and divide in the Republican Party.[SUP][23][/SUP][SUP][24][/SUP][SUP][25][/SUP] Ron Paul continues to be a prominent force in the Tea Party movement, such as endorsing Tea party candidates,[SUP][26][/SUP] and also giving talks and speeches alongside prominent Tea party activist, and 2008 Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin.[SUP][27][/SUP][SUP][28]



note: Democrat nuts have taken over the page and changed the introduction.

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[Carlybee]

The Tea Party has long since been co-opted several times over.

 

[devil21]

Actually, Ron's supporters started the modern Tea Party. Ron was the messenger.

 

[Spikender]

Ron Paul was simply the catalyst, Talking Points Bot.

 

[Origanalist]

Sarah Palin?

 

[Sola_Fide]

I thought Glen Beck started the Tea Party.

 

[Aspie Minarcho-Capitalist]

The original Tea Party movement was essentially derived from the Ron Paul Revolution in 2007 when it actually stood up for free enterprise, individual liberty and fiscal responsibility; nevertheless, it has long been infiltrated and co-opted by neoconservative corporatists in response to the obamainations in early 2009. It's also funded by the beltway "libertarian" Koch Brothers as well, thus tainting the party's reputation due to their beneficence in retrospection from collectivist policies like corporate welfare and eminent domain. Most libertarians don't self identity as tea partiers as they are cognizant enough to interpret it's Trotskyite influences, but how some constitutionalists (unlike some paleos like Pat Buchanan) cannot figure out it's long time big government and big business connections is beyond me...pity.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

The neocon/Kochite attempt to co-opt the Tea Party was not consistently or uniformly successful, and there were several waves of takeover campaigns (pre-2010 and post 2010). Depending on which part of the country, or which end of the movement is discussed (TP people in the GOP, vs TP independents or grassroots), TP cells are either fully co-opted, fully unaligned, or in between.

Please remember that as the Tea Party completely emerged circa 2009, it was a non-partisan movement that included many Democrats as wells as Republicans fed up with profligate spending and Wall St/bankster domination of the current system, whose mentality was not dominated by two-party paradigm division over the issues. This led to 'the rabble' challenging incumbents of either party at town halls, and the defeat of many incumbents of both parties in the primaries across 2009-10.

THIS is what most animated the establishment to jump in and steer TP into being just another GOP advocacy faction, that had no ability to independently mobilize to kick out GOP incumbents. The co-opting efforts were not done to harness the power of the TP, but to de-fang it, as well as limit its ability to challenge ongoing overspending, debt ceiling increases and elite bailouts in Washington. The fact that there was a significant TP led rebellion in late 2013 in Congress (years after the supposed co-opting) shows the TP forces are not dead, and this populist fight for fiscal sanity is still going on.

 

[Bryan]

...and Ron Paul will be proven right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement

The origins of the current Tea Party movement can be traced back to circa 2007. The movement's beginnings were kick-started by Republican Congressman Dr. Ron Paul in 2007. His GOP presidential campaign received a 24-hour, record breaking, money bomb on December 16, 2007;[SUP][22][/SUP] which is the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. This event directly contributed to creating a libertarian revival and divide in the Republican Party.[SUP][23][/SUP][SUP][24][/SUP][SUP][25][/SUP] Ron Paul continues to be a prominent force in the Tea Party movement, such as endorsing Tea party candidates,[SUP][26][/SUP] and also giving talks and speeches alongside prominent Tea party activist, and 2008 Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin.[SUP][27][/SUP][SUP][28][/SUP]

Yes, which was birthed right here on this website by members.

For example, here is the post where the tea party website was announced on the day it was registered back on 10/24/2007:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...ea-Party-Plans&p=310818&viewfull=1#post310818

This forum has over 10,000 posts to plan the tea party:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?244-Tea-Party-Weekend-12-15-16-Planning

And this forum has over 17,000 posts when we carried out the tea party:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?191-Tea-Party

 

[teaparty]

I agree. Ron Paul started the tea party...it lost its way for a while, but it's slowly coming back around to believe in everything Dr. Paul does. Everyone now believes in getting rid of the IRS...etc.

 

[Dianne]

Yes, which was birthed right here on this website by members.

For example, here is the post where the tea party website was announced on the day it was registered back on 10/24/2007:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...ea-Party-Plans&p=310818&viewfull=1#post310818

This forum has over 10,000 posts to plan the tea party:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?244-Tea-Party-Weekend-12-15-16-Planning

And this forum has over 17,000 posts when we carried out the tea party:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?191-Tea-Party

True, my son and I were there.

 

[RonPaulMall]

The last time I ever voted- 2008, I voted for the Boston Tea Party candidate, Charles Jay, for President. That was founded in 2006 but only became as popular as it did because Ron popularized the name and Walter Block did a nice write up of them on Lew Rockwell. Their terse but terrific Party Platform:

The Boston Tea Party supports reducing the size, scope and power of government at all levels and on all issues, and opposes increasing the size, scope and power of government at any level, for any purpose.

 

[JK/SEA]

as an aside...the term Tea-O-Con was started here as well in answer to the co-opt of the Ron Paul 'Tea Party' by Palin Inc. and all the other 'usual' suspects.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Teaocon

 

[Valli6]

Ron Paul was right.

Rand Paul is the only current presidential candidate to speak at that first Tea Party.

Rand Paul's speech at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts December 16th, 2007. (Part 1)

Rand Paul's speech Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCB7PA3ruz8

Meanwhile, Ron Paul was at the Tea Party in Freeport Texas that day.
Ron Paul's speech (Part 1 of 4)


Ron Paul throws the Iraq war overboard at the Freeport Tea Party

 

[The Northbreather]

Ron Paul was simply the catalyst, Talking Points Bot.

Lol talking points bot!

Meet hedonism bot




dont know why it won't embed

 

[SpicyTurkey]

I started the Tea Party. I'm not lying. It's based on a True story.

 

[Aratus]

i was here in February of 2oo8. Ron Paul started the Tea~Party prior to my arrival, with help and advice from Kludge, Spicy*Turkey and Matt Collins.
Someone was a true democrat of the soul and let in ordinary Reagan~ite~z who were latent but not blatant Mitt Romney people. There were several bids
that were of the takeover variety as the summer of 2oo7 extended into the fall. Clearly when things became a zoo and beyond the ability of our own
Liberty Hobbit to control, it became a mass movement that became diluted as to its basic principles. This is why we have about 15 GOP contenders wanting
to run for the presidency in 2016 becuz thats how badly splintered the Auld TEA PARTY became. Does this semi-sardonic but humorous posting answer the Q?

 

[Aratus]

i even pre~date the start of the Tea Party to Representative Ron Paul's LIBERTARIAN run in 1988
becuz this sorta helps to explain Randal Paul's senate win in 2010. If I carefully look at the last
three or four decades and ask myself who most of the Sons and Daughters of LIBERTY would have
voted for in our modern era, my answer has to be RON PAUL because he is easy to understand.

 

[William Tell]

i was here in February of 2oo8. Ron Paul started the Tea~Party prior to my arrival, with help and advice from Kludge, Spicy*Turkey and Matt Collins.
Someone was a true democrat of the soul and let in ordinary Reagan~ite~z who were latent but not blatant Mitt Romney people. There were several bids
that were of the takeover variety as the summer of 2oo7 extended into the fall. Clearly when things became a zoo and beyond the ability of our own
Liberty Hobbit to control, it became a mass movement that became diluted as to its basic principles. This is why we have about 15 GOP contenders wanting
to run for the presidency in 2016 becuz thats how badly splintered the Auld TEA PARTY became. Does this semi-sardonic but humorous posting answer the Q?

So, your point is that Collins is the Godhobbit of the Tea Party?

 

[satchelmcqueen]

ron didnt start the teaparty. his supporters did right here on this forum. since then it has been hijacked by people like glen beck and others like him. it was good when the original intent made waves, but it soon was taken over by the msm and crooked leaders wanting a bite of the grassroots.


can someone with a wiki account edit this to fit what happened for real? maybe even include the links that bryan posted proving it started here with the supporters?

EDIT: i was here starting around june 2007 iirc under "flair1111". lost my original account and then made this one in jan 2008. i remember all of this as is stated in the links.