Bill Kristol to Maher: 'Total Bullsh*t!' That Tea Party Was About a Black President - video link
VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-kristol-to-maher-total-bullsht-that-tea-party-was-about-a-black-president/
“Even you don’t believe that,” Kristol said to Maher, “you’re just saying that.”
“I totally believe that,” Maher insisted. “A month after he took office, suddenly white people were very concerned about debt, even though Bush had raised the debt way more than Obama had. I don’t remember a tea party then.”
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... any signs in the building that said 'Republican'. A journalist reported on that tidbit during the convention
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there actually were liberals who were also part of the original Tea Party movement who didn't want to the banks bailed out for liberal reasons along with the consistent (as in, against government spending even when their party is in power) fiscally conservatives. But as soon as Obama won the election, the "government spending is bad when its those libruls who are doing it" crowd jumped on the band wagon. Since those types of fair-weather (even though they think it is foul-weather 
)fiscally conservative types tend to be that way because they don't want their hard earned money to go to "those" people as hand outs, it was a pretty quick and easy transition to the KKK-lite (not very lite) entity that the Tea Party is now. The Koch brothers (and other right-wing groups which have since funded the Tea Party) were perfectly happy with the bail outs when they came from the Bush administration. But ANY President they had not bought completely was going to be the object of their full blown attack and the Tea Party was a ready-made opportunity which they exploited to the max. If it had not yet come into being before the election, the Koch brothers would have invented something. It is too bad that it was already in existence because that saved the Koch brothers a lot of time, money, and effort since they didn't have to build a movement from scratch. They only had to pour gasoline on what was a relatively small flame at that point.
Ron Paul's crowd were the fiscal conservative, anti-war, isolationist crowd. They were pretty much against everything that Bush did. They were ostracized at Repub conventions. Despite being fiscal conservatives they were not social conservatives, they were more the anarchist/libertarian 911 truther types.
Ron Paul said something like "we need a new Tea Party" in 2008 (obviously referring to the Boston Tea Party) and the moneymen behind the GOP took this idea and ran with it (although the Kochs had had an organization called the US Tea Party in deepfreeze since 2002).
The basic idea ("taxed enough already"
was probably formed in 2008 even before Obama was nominated, as a generic anti-Democrat mantra (and would have been used even if Hillary became president).
Once Obama was elected the KOCH/FOX/Freedomworks money and propaganda machine swung into action to build up this new group as bipartisan fiscal conservatives. However, the Repub brand was now tarnished so the new group mainly attracted the Repub base who could now disassociate themselves from the Bush era and start anew and pour out all their frustrations.
Of course over time it became clear that they more attracted to social conservatism than fiscal conservatism and they were just the GOP base under a different name.
their racist asselves.
It was kochs funding it and then they turned into their own worst enemies.
Tell me it didn't matter that Pres Obama is Black!
More racist slime ball..
https://aattp.org/20-of-the-most-racist-teapublican-political-signs/
spouted before the invasion of Iraq and called him out on it last night.. I am not watching any clips until I get home and can see the whole episode. I want to savor this one