[SmokingJoe]

“That's a shame since the movement started with Ron Paul and his libertarian followers, and was then co-opted by mainstream GOP Sean Hannity types”

I stopped right there.
What is this guy smoking?

[Brookhaven]

This has been the spin out of the Ron Paul movement for a while. I’ve heard it several times.

Honestly, the more I hear out of the Ron Paul camp, the more I think it qualifies as the political version of a CULT. Everything somehow relates back to Ron Paul.

That’s probably the cause of the tension with the Tea Party movement. It’s pretty well documented how it started (with a reporter’s outcry on a trading room floor) and it had nothing to do with Ron Paul. The Paul supporters are causing the tension (and distrust) by claiming they started it instead. It’s hard to trust someone when you know they are flat out lying about something (like starting the Tea Party movement.)

[Gene Eric]

>> What is this guy smoking?

I guess it’s not a movement until you stick a label on it. /s

Why not point to the movement Jim Thomson started in the late 90s? Or, the movement Rush started in the 80s?

Maybe the movement is really the continuum of that which began through the courage of our Founding Fathers - better yet, the teachings and sacrifice of Christ.

And let’s not forget, the swingin’ indies put Obama into office.