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Any tea partiers here?

Any one willing to pledge bitcoin to have bitcoin flyers distributed at NRA rally's?

The tea party is over. It ended when Sarah Palin walked in.

Bitcoin meets NRA. Now how did that famous quote by Charlton Heston go?

Lol I think most of the people here that are righties are Intelligent righties. Not moronic tea-baggers lol..

Wow. I'm somewhat astounded by the intellectual elitism.

Ron Paul started it, Sarah Palin fucked it.

It's not elitism to say Tea Partiers are morons. It's reality. Whatever your political inclination is.

I had attended a few 'Tea Parties' before they were co-opted by the Republican Party.  I guess you could say I was a Teabagger before it was cool, or before it was square.  Whichever.

I suggest you paint with a narrower brush, or you might find that you offend the wrong forum member.  It's a short trip back to newbie hell from where you are standing.

I don't consider myself a Tea Partier, but I support Ron Paul.

The Tea Party movement is not grassroots but astroturf.

I think the average Tea Partier is "more intelligent" than the average American. But indeed it is foolish to generalizing to such a degree - there be both idiots and geniuses within the Tea Party, probably within almost any group, and to say "Tea Partiers are morons" makes he who posts such appear as though he is one himself, does it not?

That said, I think Tea Partiers, on average, would be at least open to the idea of Bitcoin if approached from the "anti-fed" angle - and indeed isn't that the most important angle from which to approach Bitcoin, regardless?

If the tea party sticks to fidelity to the constitution, smaller government (much less military and entitlement spending), and increasing personal liberty; Then, I still support it.

You keep telling yourself that, despite all of the evidence.  Don't let the facts disturb you.

Ron Paul, whom I respect, didn't start it either.

Actually, the Tea Party was started by the Ron Paul supporters to get people to fund Ron Paul 2008 campaign. When the presidentials were over, Fox News, in their line of copying Ron Paul rethoric, co-opted it.

No, sorry.  The 'Tea Party' was started many years after the Tea Parties on April 15th and on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.  The idea was started by libertarians & like people, picked up by Ron Paul supporters leading into the 2007 Republican nomination cycle (who are also far more libertarian than the rest of the Republican Party), and co-opted by the Republican Party around 2009 after it became apparent that it wasn't going to fade away.

I was there for most of it, I watched it happen.

I'm not a party affiliate myself, but in this election cycle, Ron Paul is at least as loud a voice as Chuck Schumer. Adopting bitcoin is no more extreme than ending the federal reserve.

I probably expressed myself somwhat carelessly. The Tea Party movement indeed enjoys widespread support, however, the politicians who are elected are no different from other politicians, i.e. they accept campaign contributions from the highest bidders and pay scant regard to the views of their supporters, apart from lip-service and rhetoric. Libertarian and/or republican values can never equal the aims of the corporations who provide campaign contributions.

The "Tea Party" is a joke. Do you think Samuel Adams filed for a permit to have an assembly? The real Tea Partiers had real torches and pitchforks. You think a bunch of geriatrics, who had no problem with Big Government when Bush the Dumber was in charge, have any ideological consistency? They wouldn't know ideological consistency if it bit them on their wrinkled asses. Most of them MOST OF THEM are opposed to ANY cuts to social security or medicare, at least until they are dead and the genXers get to pick up the tab.

I donated to Ron Paul as part of the Money Bomb. I was one of the very few who voted for him in 1988.  Now I feel like a sucker for doing so. He's just another rich old man pissed off about birthright citizenship and wanting to go back to the way things used to be. Hey Ron, IF THINGS WERE SO GREAT, THEN HOW COME THEY GOT SO SHITTY? The Constitution is just a promise by the guys with guns not to shoot us unless they really really want to. Limited government is impossible because the government interprets and selectively enforces the rules that limit it's power. The American experiment was a failure. A noble attempt, maybe, but ultimately a giant steaming pile of fail.

Sarah palin isn't tea party. Tea party originally started with the ron paul movement. Where was palin then? Running with McCain. Definitely not tea party.

It seems your reading comprehension may be lacking this evening. It's alright. These kinds of things happen to even the best of us.

I am astounded how you try to make intellectuality sound like something bad.

But it was a good failure, one that teaches us a lot. It is the only system that I can think of that was designed rather than grown, but did not end in disasters like e.g. the soviet union.

this was a pretty solid exchange haha

So you will ban/censor people who disagree with your opinions?

Yeah, that's my style.  You can't find a dissenting opinion anywhere.

"I donated to Ron Paul as part of the Money Bomb."
 
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I don't think he will win but the further he makes it the better. It is up to the people to fund the best people for goverment and I think he is currently the best person that reflects my views. If the people won't personaly fund candidates like this other organizations end up making the descisions for us. Donating is more important than voting.

I thought the tea party was at least named the tea party after the Rick Santelli rant on CNBC. I was watching that day and it was quite a good rant. I am cool with the tea party as long as they don't bring religion into it ... I think tea party has been targeted and labeled by groups with allot of money and media outlets. I don't know how they make the connections with the libertarian type views of the tea party people and racism..

Ok. I stand corrected.

I don't like tea.

The design completely failed at the time of the War Between the States. Since then, it has grown, in more ways than one.  It did most certainly end in disaster, the bloodiest war in history up until that time. The system we have now, which hardly resembles the system envisioned in 1787, will also end in disaster. Most likely sooner rather than later.