[WilliamofCarmichael]

The Tea Party is a movement. The movement started long ago.. back during the silenced generation. The emerging modern conservative movement started the process to rescue the Republican Party.

Hell, we lost faith in the Rockefeller internationalist Republicans long ago and at the start of the modern conservative movement; that is why we were for Goldwater in 1964.

.. and the Republican Party movers and shakers had come to the attitude by 1964 that they still have today; to wit, the enemy (the modern conservative movement, today the Tea Party movement) had to be destroyed as members of the human race.

As for two parties.. they were little more than Tweedledum and Tweedledee in those days also.

[Feckless]

We had the Coryell County (Texas) Tea Party as early as 2006 to fight exploding property taxes. It is the first mention I ever heard of Tea Party in modern times. We literally ran the Tax Assessor out of the county.

[justa-hairyape]

The push back against the RINO's probably started back during Bush number one's presidency. US Reaganites were completely disillusioned with a new compassionate conservative who was neither compassionate nor conservative. Back then the National Review was anti-RINO and wrote quite a few articles critical of Bush the First. Of course that was back when BBS's were still around with their dial up modems.

Back then Rush was just getting his national start. He was instrumental in those days. Those of us living in Los Angeles at the time had to listen to Rush in private. Once a liberal in Hollywood discovered I listened to Rush and he suggested I should also listen to Wally George. Tried to explain that Wally was just a Republican Party hack and Rush was something different. My take was that Rush was a true conservative above the Party loyalty gig.

Then along came Freerepublic, and man oh man, the rest has been history.

[andyk]

Yo Rush. 2nd time, long time.

[PaleoBob]

It was a cool tribute by Rush who is correct 99.7 percent of the time—or thereabout. And I only agree with him about 97.9 percent of the time—which means, I think, that I’m ALWAYS right!

Long live Rush Limbaugh.

[TArcher]

Origin of the Tea Party?

 

 

 

 

Where were Lush Rimbaugh and the rest of the MSM parasites on 9/12/2009?

I know where WE were that day.

 

 

[Nita Nupress]

Thanks, Rush. Heard it live and loved it.

I have no doubt that at least some RINOs are RINOs because of NSA activities (horrendous flashback to Hillary’s stolen FBI files and the blackmail effect they had back then). I have long thought our best prevention against compromised RINOs would be to dig the dirt on them OURSELVES and threaten to publish it if they didn’t come clean and then do what we elected them to do: vote conservatively! At this point, i think most of us would forgive and forget a LOT of transgressions if a RINO blew the lid off the blackmail attempts and just went public with it.

Well, I can dream, can’t I?!

[TArcher]

 And by that I mean abandoning the Republican Party's confined definitions of conservatism

   

Confined definitions of Conservatism?

 

 

BULLSHIT

  "Ohhhhho say can you seee...."   Eyes Wide Shut "8-1984 - Lawrence King [Homosexual and alleged Pedophile] throws a lavish party in Dallas, Texas, after singing the National Anthem at the Republican National GOP Convention." http://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=Lawrence+king+singing+pedophile+franklin&oq=Lawrence+king+singing+pedophile+franklin   http://www.franklincase.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=9

[jpsb]

Back in the day, FR was anti-Bush, anti GOPe, then it turned into BushBot central. With nothing but “A day in the life” crap, lots and lots of early freepers either left or got zotted. This place is slowly returning to it roots, thank goodness.

[Liberty Valance]

Happy Independence Day!