Expose on the Tea Party Architects

[GusFrerotte]

Sorry, the Tea Parties started in 2007 with the Ron Paul folks and it gained strength during 2008. The neocons through Sarah Palin hijacked it though after Obama was elected. The Koch brothers are big neocons and supporters of the GOP. They might be behind the hijacking of the Tea Parties, but they didn't start them. This piece is propaganda meant to discredit them.

[wilsowilso]

Originally Posted by GusFrerotte

Sorry, the Tea Parties started in 2007 with the Ron Paul folks and it gained strength during 2008. The neocons through Sarah Palin hijacked it though after Obama was elected. The Koch brothers are big neocons and supporters of the GOP. They might be behind the hijacking of the Tea Parties, but they didn't start them. This piece is propaganda meant to discredit them.

Wrong. The Koch brothers are ardent libertarians.

They are by far the largest sponsor of "tea party" organizational funding nationwide.

The "Tea Party" as America knows it today was entirely shaped by the funding of the Koch Empire. They might have hijacked the name, but their financial support/influence made the current movement viable.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by wilsowilso

Wrong. The Koch brothers are ardent libertarians.

They are by far the largest sponsor of "tea party" organizational funding nationwide.

The "Tea Party" as America knows it today was entirely shaped by the funding of the Koch Empire. They might have hijacked the name, but their financial support/influence made the current movement viable.

No the people in the neighborhoods who organized meetings and such are the people made the movement viable.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by GusFrerotte

Sorry, the Tea Parties started in 2007 with the Ron Paul folks and it gained strength during 2008. The neocons through Sarah Palin hijacked it though after Obama was elected. The Koch brothers are big neocons and supporters of the GOP. They might be behind the hijacking of the Tea Parties, but they didn't start them. This piece is propaganda meant to discredit them.

They are not even remotely close to neocons. You are completely wrong on this.

[GusFrerotte]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

They are not even remotely close to neocons. You are completely wrong on this.

Well what are they then? They aren't Ron Paul/ Bob Taft conservatives/libertarians. And if you want to get technical I think the whole article is rubbish as the Koch bros had nothing to really do with the Tea Parties in the beginning. You have a major split within the movement, the Ron Paulians and the Palinites, who are neocon morons. If the Koch bros are indeed major players in funding the present movement I would think they are neocons, as that wing is by far the strongest now.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by GusFrerotte

Well what are they then? They aren't Ron Paul/ Bob Taft conservatives/libertarians. And if you want to get technical I think the whole article is rubbish as the Koch bros had nothing to really do with the Tea Parties in the beginning. You have a major split within the movement, the Ron Paulians and the Palinites, who are neocon morons. If the Koch bros are indeed major players in funding the present movement I would think they are neocons, as that wing is by far the strongest now.

Neocons are cool with a welfare state. The Koch's believe just the opposite. They are pretty dyed-in-the-wool libertarians. They want to eliminate the welfare state.

Don't confuse monetary support with political belief. That's a big problem in our two-party system. There's tons of monetary support for things people don't believe in. Everyone is trying to pick the lesser of two evils.