Tea Party co-founder challenges GOP

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Liberty movement leader has some choice words for mainstream Republicans who hijacked the movement.

by Chad Peace | Nov 30th 2009
CAIVIN.org

In 2007, the modern tea party movement took shape, in a vastly different form than it now presents itself. Spurred by an impending recession, a government overrun by deception and corruption, and an unprecedented expansion of government under eight years of “conservative” leadership, the first modern day tea partiers had positive causes of action: honesty, respect for the rule of law, and protection of the rights of the smallest minority; the individual.

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Talk about "hijacking"

The first tea party I attended was last century. The Libertarian Party would throw them every year on April 15, in front of the post offices where the sheeple went to mail their tax returns.

It died down with the advent of electronic filing and resulting lack of media coverage.

IMissLiberty

IMissLiberty

They have ruined a beautiful idea...

I was afraid this might happen. Old line members of the Republican Party who have no idea the underlying ideals of the original tea parties.

I'll bet 80% of those who attended the latest tea parties are all for the "war" in the mideast.

They're neo-cons at the core so all their other protests lose credibility.

But the party IS losing lots of people who DO understand the liberty movement.

"We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed, over-regulated, and overrun by bureaucrats. The founders would be ashamed of us for what we are putting up with."
-Ron Paul

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Tea Party leaders need to hear this.

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A great, first-hand account.

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must. like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.-Thomas Paine

The R3volution requires action, not observation!!!!

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must. like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.-Thomas Paine

The R3volution requires action, not observation!!!!

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it is frustrating .. i've

it is frustrating .. i've been to one of the tea parties .. and they were yelling about iran and nuking chavez ... and some of them were even talking about printing money and bailing out the people ... very scary sight ... i feared for my country before ... but after? i am absolutely terrified

Yeah there's a heck of an

Yeah there's a heck of an ideological battle coming.

I agree

Good read,But I do have to say Beck looked right at home with
the hat on.

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand"

Confucius

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I was wondering about that.

He must have felt horrible to see something he worked so hard on get hijacked by neocons.

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