Tea Party 'founder' not fond of his creation.

[CunningStunts]

First, I can't argue with what he said. It did start as a Constitutional, psuedo-libertarian movement, so he's right on.

Second, the way it got distorted was a multi-headed monster IMHO... (1) the media didn't know what to make of what was a decentralized movement. In short, the media is made up of mostly left-leaning elites, and they had no idea that people could believe in ideas they didn't share. (2) as a result, they labelled all of these diverse groups "Tea Parties" to make sense of it... though there were vast differences and copy-cats after the initial success of the movement. (3) many GOPers did ride the popularity of the Tea Parties, namely the dunce known as Sarah Palin, but in truth most of the "Tea Parties" are NOT so called social conservatives. They are libertarians. And to this day, the GOP establishment also doesn't know what to make of most of the movement. So they are trying to steer it rather than understand and listen to it.

That's my :2 cents: anyway.

 

[Friday on my mind]

It's amazing that we finally have a Third Party in American politics.

Too bad it's one that is so dense they don't even know that they are named after a sexual euphemism meaning to put testicles in your mouth.

So now we have the Moderate Party, the Right Wing Party and the new Far Right Wing Party.

They won't be around long.They will be asborbed into the republican party.We can argue the 2 party system but that is the way it works and is suppose to work.Any new group/3rd party historically is almost always led to be aligned with one or the other of the 2 partys and then disappear melding in with some degree of change brought in most cases to the absorbing party.So bottom line is the tea party will be asbored by the republicans and the effect on the pubs will be to push them further right.

The same thing happened to the dems in the late 60s culminating in the late 70s.They were pushed (at least they were perceived to be ) left and lost a lot of elections by landslides running what were pecived to be out of the mainstream liberals like McGovern,Dukakis etc.It was not until Bill Clinton and the DLC which was seen as much moderate and mainstream that they were able to again be a winning national party.

The pubs will lose a lot for a while I bet if the tea party effect is as strong as it looks like it will be on them.

 

[titsrock]

Long live the Bullmoose Party! Huzzah my fellow Bullmoosers :hatsoff:

 

[AlexanderAvery]

I find this story comical. I love how there is all this throwing around of the words "Criminal Activity" and I have yet to see any proof of such. This is just slander.

 

[Jagger69]

Long live the Bullmoose Party! Huzzah my fellow Bullmoosers :hatsoff:

I propose that the Tea Party change its name to the Know-Nothing Party. They actually have a lot of similarities if you read what that party stood for:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/320530/Know-Nothing-party

 

[blackbull1970]

The tea party was a joke from the beginning.

After this midterm election, they will be a memory.

 

[HELLRAISER]

Wannabe Conservatives outnumber genuine Conservatives in the TP it's no wonder the TP is the GOP by another name

 

[meesterperfect]

yeah, not to mention this whole war and that SON OF A BITCH JOHNSON!

 

[bodie54]

I propose that the Tea Party change its name to the Know-Nothing Party. They actually have a lot of similarities if you read what that party stood for:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/320530/Know-Nothing-party

They sure do.

Xenophobia never goes out of style, the targets just change.

 

[Facetious]

I've never heard of this guy..

. .
Me neither, just who is this mysterious Karl Denninger?
Egads! With a name like ''Karl'' we might not to want to know him!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karl Denninger

The founder of market-ticker.org, Karl Denninger is a stock trader and former CEO, published his own write-up on the proposed protest, titled "Tea Party February 1st?," which was posted in direct response to President Obama's inauguration occurring on the same day, and railed against the bailouts, the US national debt and "the fraud and abuse in our banking and financial system" which included the predatory lending practices currently at the center of the home mortgage foreclosure crisis. Karl Denninger, who helped form FedUpUSA in the wake of the March 2008 Federal Reserve bail out of Bear Sterns, had been a guest on both Glenn Beck and CNBC Reports. By February 1, the idea had spread among conservative and libertarian-oriented blogs, forums, websites and through a viral email campaign. On Oct 20, 2010, he blogged that Republicans had hijacked the Tea Party movement, and perverted its original goals to the standard Republican concerns of "guns, gays and God."

source

The best that I can make out of this is, as an investor Mr. Karl Denninger merely blogged that the Republicans had hijacked the Tea Party.
My question is . . How does this make Mr. Denninger a Tea Party founding member?
Sounds to me like the individual who authored the article featured in Stan's OP was the one doing the hijacking!
but why would this author do such a thing?! . . .Wait! you don't think that the author was trying to discred the Tea Party by any and all means necessary as prescribed in Saul Alinsky's ''Rules for Radicals'' . . do you? :eek:
No! Heavens No! Impossible! Stop with these conspiracies already! :horse:

[ . . the targets just change.

Sure do! Quack Quack !

 

[Facetious]

Wannabe Conservatives outnumber genuine Conservatives in the TP it's no wonder the TP is the GOP by another name

''neo conservatives'', ''wannabe conservatives'', ''generic conservatives'', ''genuine conservatives'' . . . .
did I miss anybody?