http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNjzjUABss
Rand Paul at Ron Paul Tea Party 2007
That’s a video there. On December 16, 2007, The Ron Paul Campaign had a number of Tea Parties all over the country. Rand Paul (who, inconviently for you, is the poster boy for tea party) spoke at one of them, at Faneuil Hall in Boston.
If you aren’t looking at “tea party” right there, I don’t know what you’re looking at.
Go back and find footage, find something, somewhere that shows that tea party has a clear foreign policy. Or a position on marijuana that differs from Ron Paul’s.
Just because you personally, think of yourself as “tea party”, and you personally disagree with Ron Paul on foreign policy, doesn’t mean that the tea party has a clear foreign policy that contradicts Ron Paul’s foreign policy.
If you can find video of people at tea party rallies talking about how we need more war and that the Federal Government needs to be involved in marijuana laws, I’d like to see it.
It’s pretty hard to argue that Ron Paul isn’t tea party after looking at the #1 tea party star from the freshman class of ‘10 speak, saying tea party things, at something officially billed as a “tea party” event that was also an official Ron Paul event.
You could easily say about that clip “that was the first moment of the tea party” Santelli could’ve used anything to describe what he was after, he chose “tea party”. Ron Paul raised over $6 Million on Tea Party Moneybomb day.
I would not be surprised if Ron Paul reminds people of this.
Of course, if you can go back before
This attempt by some Paul supporters to attach themselves like barnacles to the Tea Party movement is a bunch of hooey.
Ron Paul is the same Libertarian he was in 2008. I'd agree his son Rand is Tea Party, but he's put quite a bit of distance between himself and the old man - most notably on foreign policy and defense (Ron Paul's most glaring weaknesses).
If you can find video of people at tea party rallies talking about how we need more war and that the Federal Government needs to be involved in marijuana laws, I’d like to see it.
Silly and you know it. The topic of most Tea Party rallies has mostly been on spending issues, but that certainly doesn't mean most Tea Party folks want to legalize heroin or bail on friends like Israel. Any sympathy Ron Paul may get from some well known Tea Party supporting conservatives, who sometimes give him a pass on his kooky views because they often agree with some of his economic positions, would turn to outright hostility were they to believe Ron Paul was a serious candidate.
If you actually believe all these traditional, conservative Americans who've banded together to create the Tea Party movement want to legalize drugs and prostitution, abandon allies like Israel, ignore the threats posed by Iran and other Islamic extremists, etc, you are kidding yourself. Ron Paul's base of support is a very organized, active group of college kids. These "youths" are not Tea Party, they are social libertarians - and when Ron Paul does not win the Republican nomination more than half of them will likely vote for Obama. The ones who really know what Paul stands for will simply vote Libertarian.