Yeah well ... Everyone knows the Republicans are trying to takeover the tea parties.
What have the Republicans in congress done for you lately? All I can think of is compromise to leftist ideas. It took the Russians to end the environmental movement, and not these pro environment Republicans like McCain, Newt and Mitt Romney.
The tea parties are people pissed off with the Republican party in congress, and some with the democrats. Primarily former Republicans.
They were bashed until elections happened. Now the Republicans are trying to take it over.
They organized them. Libertarians came into my town, as I mentioned, and trashed ours. There aren't enough Ron Paul people/Libertarians in the country to stage one decent Tea party much less the hundreds if not thousands which have been held.
59,934,814 people voted GOP in 2008.
That is over 100 times the number who voted Libertarian.
The only way a movement this large could happen is by Republicans doing it.
Look at the overwhelming support the military gets at the TPs. Looks at the strong position on national defense at the TPs. Those aren't Ron Paul supporters. Those aren't libertarians.