controlled by billionaires up top...It's supposed to be the icon of angry white middle-class America, but it's just a mirage that miraculously morphs its aims and goals whenever it is convenient...It helps that it's gotten propped up by certain shills in the media, and some useful idiots buy into what's being sold to them so they can feel like an against-the-grain third-party revolutionary instead of the same old GOP they've always been...
Three full years later (and I asked this then), can ANYONE give a proper, concise summary of what the TP stands for? Do they have one leader who isn't self appointed? Have any of these podunk state/county/regional party leaders EVER had a consistent message when CNN and Fox give them air time?? And yet, so many people want us to believe the TP is some unstoppable tidal wave with unbreakable, behind-the-scenes control of the GOP -- Why even several GOP leaders have thrown up their hands in public because they're supposedly so powerless to stop the TP crazies from taking over the primaries (even though their boy Ron Paul is still an afterthought)...
Once upon a time, there was a "real", if I can call it that, Tea Party born in the aftermath of the '08 election that was the unholiest of marriages uniting disgruntled Ron Paul supporters (smaller, smarter group of organizers and net activists, but many of them are loner kooks), and Sarah Palin supporters (WAY larger group of knuckle-dragging cultists, but they've got more people, money and Palin is a lot more marketable/media savvy), along with a sprinkling of the LaRouche/Rockwell/Alex Jones/Stormfront/Birther crowd...All they had in common was a hatred of the president and the somewhat sane people who had the nerve to say anything positive about him, much less vote for him...While this moron convention is investigating Kenyan birth records and infighting over whether Paul or Palin should lead the new American republic in 2112, the Koch crowd and their partners quietly take over and steal the budding TP name and budding media recognition to make it their own to control, and the moron convention is too dumb and disjointed to notice...
The bottom line is if the TP (which isn't a party anymore so much as a political platform for zealotry) had a fraction of the power the media ascribe to it, then Ron Paul would be running away with this primary (or they'd drag Sarah into the race kicking and screaming) and they'd sooner burn the nation down before throwing their primary support behind the current candidates who could never live up to their schizo views
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