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Old 02-09-2010, 03:11 PM
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Tea Parties taking aim at..... huh? Ron Paul?

Tea Party movement takes aim at Ron Paul



By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 -- 11:19 am
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There is more than a little irony in the fact that congressman Ron Paul is facing three primary challengers this year, all of them linked in some way to the Tea Party movement.
Many observers give the libertarian from Texas credit for having sparked the Tea Party movement in 2007 when he held a "money bomb" fundraiser on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, raking in some $6 million for his presidential run in one day.
But, as the Dallas Morning News reported earlier this week, Paul is facing three primary challengers -- more than he has faced in the past six primaries combined. And every one of the challengers is linked to the Tea Party movement.
Washington Independent contributor David Weigel told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Monday night that the Tea Party movement of today has little in common with that fundraiser in 2007.
"Those libertarian ideas [may be] popular at the Cato Institute, [but] they're not really popular with Tea Party activists," Weigel said.
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As the Morning News put it, Tea Partiers say Paul is "too focused on his national ambitions; that his views are too extreme; that he doesn't support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that he votes 'no' on everything, including federal aid for his district after Hurricane Ike."
By comparison, "the Sarah Palin version of Tea Party conservatism is a little bit less specific," Weigel said. "It's more slogany. You can write the talking points on your hand if you want to."
That the Tea Party movement has become a threat to Paul is not lost on the congressman.
The Morning News reports that, in December, Paul sent out a letter to supporters saying that his opponents "turned their attack dogs loose on me," and warned that the anti-incumbent mood among voters could affect him as well.
"There is one thing Paul does that might backfire," Weigel wrote at the Washington Independent. "While Paul votes against basically all spending bills, he notoriously gets earmark requests into those bills, so that local projects survive when other members vote those bills through. That barely dinged Paul in 2008, but it may become an issue now."
This video is from MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast Feb. 8, 2010.

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See? I already said they were phony a couple weeks ago, in the thread about Palin speaking with them. Nothing new. It's one more group, supporting decreasing the size and scope of the government, subverted by douchery like Glenn Beck and the machine.
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Best one I heard yet is: "Without the GOP the Teabag party is nothing but a few guys standing around with Ron Paul signs"
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Old 02-09-2010, 03:49 PM
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This would be a good time for Tea Party members to watch Robert Altman's "Nashville."

Remember "The Replacement Party" candidate Hal Philip Walker?

No doubt many Americans, especially party-liners, wish that Hal Phillip Walker would go away, disappear like the natural frost and come again at some more convenient season. But wherever he may be going, it seems sure that Hal Phillip Walker is not going away. For there is genuine appeal, and it must be related to the raw courage of this man. Running for President, willing to battle vast oil companies, eliminate subsidies to farmers, tax churches, abolish the Electoral College, change the National Anthem, and remove lawyers from government - especially from Congress.
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un likee those in charge on the left - 2010 Will show just how smart the Tea Baggers really are when they vote both sides out of office

Real Americans who see Sarah for what she represents will change the coarse we are on for the good or not its coming this year -

Get over it -- jz
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Old 02-09-2010, 05:18 PM
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un likee those in charge on the left - 2010 Will show just how smart the Tea Baggers really are when they vote both sides out of office

Real Americans who see Sarah for what she represents will change the coarse we are on for the good or not its coming this year -

Get over it -- jz
I bet 100:1 against it. They're not gonna change the 'coarse'.
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I bet 100:1 against it. They're not gonna change the 'coarse'.

it pisses some of them off in a big way

i enjoy spelling with a NYC italian accent
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it pisses some of them off in a big way

i enjoy spelling with a NYC italian accent
I understand, off coarse.
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un likee those in charge on the left - 2010 Will show just how smart the Tea Baggers really are when they vote both sides out of office

Real Americans who see Sarah for what she represents will change the coarse we are on for the good or not its coming this year -

Get over it -- jz
Ah, "voting both sides out of office" is what the Galveston voters did when they voted Paul into office......
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un likee those in charge on the left - 2010 Will show just how smart the Tea Baggers really are when they vote both sides out of office

Real Americans who see Sarah for what she represents will change the coarse we are on for the good or not its coming this year -

Get over it -- jz
Obama's in the White House - Palin never will be.

Get over it -- pc
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Obama's in the White House - Palin never will be.

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she would be a mistake BUT not for the reasons i read on this site - jz
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Ah, "voting both sides out of office" is what the Galveston voters did when they voted Paul into office......

He is to me a bit loose BUT some of what he has said i do agree with

i do not think letting ether side stay in office is best for the country, flushing both out in 2010 and let the cards fall is the best bet

if its not done that way one side thinks they won and that is not the correct messagee we as a people need to send them -- jz
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Ah, "voting both sides out of office" is what the Galveston voters did when they voted Paul into office......
Yeah, actually pretty much. The right and left try to banish the guy. He even admits the only reason for an 'R' designation is ballot access. Neocons call him soft on the boogeymen, and the socialists don't like it when he proposes people keep their own money.
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Thats a shame, they started off as a decent enough movement, now I don't care for them.


IMHO Ron Paul is the best Congressman we have, I'd love to see him in the oval office. I voted for him last time around and will vote for him again if he runs.

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