[Scanian]

The main resemblance I hope they end up having is success in accomplishing their objectives.

[ETL]

"I think the tea partiers bear an uncanny resemblance to the antiwar activists in the Vietnam War period."-Michael Barone

Sheeet... The so-called "anti-war" activists (leaders of the movement) were phonies! They weren't really opposed to war and violence. They sided with the North Vietnamese and VietCong. The same type of people running the "peace" movement then are running it today. Communist Party USA, Workers World Party and the Revolutionary Communist Party run it today. It is deplorable to compare Tea Party people in any way to this traitor scum in sheep's clothing!

CPUSA's "anti-war" front group is 'United for Peace and Justice'

Workers World Party's "anti-war" front groups are 'ANSWER' and 'Troops Out Now'

The Revolutionary Communist Party's "anti-war" front groups are 'World Can't Wait', 'Refuse and Resist', and 'Not In Our Name'

[rlmorel]

What a steaming pant load.

There is no comparison whatsoever, and as someone who has taken part in and met many Tea Partiers, I am offended by the comparison to 60’s radicals.

The vast majority of Tea Party participants are job-holding, tax-paying, patriotic men and women of non-college age who believe in the basic goodness and concept that is America.

We aren’t doing it to keep from going to war.

We aren’t doing it because we are bored.

We aren’t doing for the sex.

We aren’t doing it for the drugs.

Most people I have met involved in the Tea Parties wish they could be home with their families or doing something productive.

[rlmorel]

But most of all, we don’t have the enemies of the United States of America praying fervently for our success, as the liberal anti-Americans in Europe, USSR, PRC, North Vietnam and North Korea did for the success of the Anti-war movement.

All these same people hope the Tea Party movement fails.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Antiwar Democrats beat hawks in primaries and then lost general elections. The disarray of the 1968 Democratic national convention helped beat Hubert Humphrey, and the antiwar 1972 nominee George McGovern lost 49 states. Some antiwar folks voiced an anti-Americanism that turned off ordinary voters. . . . The Democrats before 1968 were a pro-Cold War party. Since 1968 they have been, with occasional exceptions, a dovish party. Hawks need not apply. . . . It's not clear whether the tea partiers' influence on Republicans will last as long as the antiwar cohort's imprint on Democrats."

By 1968 the "anti-war" movement owned the MSM. The TV networks had replaced newspapers as the main source of news for many Americans.

Even before that the networks sometimes described the "anti-war," "free speech" rabble as the most intelligent generation in history.

That ain't going to happen vis-a-vis the Tea Party. Just the opposite but..

There was no Internet and there was nothing like modern talk radio because the "Fairness Doctrine" enabled the left to use complaints as weapons to threaten broadcasting licenses of station owners.

Elections were the only free speech -- except for a few limited-circulation publications.

We were not the silent generation we were the silenced generation.

The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus/street revolutionary rabble took over the Democratic Party and drove many liberals (denounced as "Neo-Cons") out of the party.

Hello! Rat Party.

[Matthew James]

We can much more accurately be compared to the original Sons of Liberty.

[mewzilla]

I think the tea partiers bear an uncanny resemblance to the antiwar activists in the Vietnam War period.

I, too, have been around for both, Mr. Barone, and I think you have been into the wacky weed...