The Tea Party and its impending dilemma

[Dokkie]

It’s inevitable. A new party is forming.

It initially grew organically, with little money and near zero media coverage. Inspired by the iconic Boston event that led to the American Revolution, this reincarnation started humbly, with small rallies sprinkled all across the country. With an American drummer boy dressed in colonial garb leading the way, and Don’t Tread On Me flags in tow, these activists took to the streets on a symbolic tax day with chants of liberty, a constitutionalism mantra, and a goal of taking back their country. From this one day of rallies it would grow to become one of the most powerful and disruptive movements in modern American politics. There hasn’t been anything like it in over 150 years. And contrary to popular thought, Fox News and the Republican establishment entirely missed its beginning.

It is called the Tea Party movement and it was started on December 16, 2007…by Ron Paul supporters.

Widely unrecognized in Republican enclaves as the founding event of the movement, the Ron Paul candidacy is inarguably the precursor to the current Tea Party species. Following the trail of its origin provides a fascinating illustration of how a movement, and hence culture, evolves. And it is within these roots that one can find the promise, and impending dilemma, of this young movement as it grows and changes the political landscape.



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/16/the-tea-party-and-its-impending-dilemma/#ixzz18OPn0RUE

[HillbillyBob]

1. Too bad its been hijacked and rendered into just another $$$ driven

gop pos.

[Dokkie]

3. I know

At least we could have worked with the original tea party but now it has been taken over by John Boehner, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and his ilk. People whose stated goals is not to improve the condition of the Americans citizen but people who want to score political points by defeating Obama and liberal ideas.

[HopeHoops]

2. They have short attention spans. It is a passing bowel movement.

[gratuitous]

4. Dilemma?

The rugged individualists of the Tea Baggers will do what their corporate overlords tell them to do, they will think what they're told to think, and they will be outraged at what they're told to be outraged at. Then they will return to dormancy until they need to be wound up again. No dilemma at all for Tea Baggers!

[arcane1]

6. Indeed, they seem pretty dormant now

when they should be AT LEAST as pissed off about the tax bill as we are!

[Occam Bandage]

5. The "tea party" is a non-entity; it's just a bit of branding on standard Republican astroturf. nt