There are oh so many groups that claim they started the Tea Party movement, who is telling the truth? Contrary to all the websites that claim to be the true Tea Party headquarters the truth is that Ron Paul started the Tea Party in 2007. All the others sprang up months and years after his beginnings.
Why are there so many different offshoots pushing for liberty? For the most part it was the GOP/the establishment trying to bring division to the movement and was an attempt to control it. Some even report it backwards like The Monitor Breakfast.
Each has its own merit keeping many of the tenets in trying to takeover the Tea Party like Freedomworks. “The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.” -Matt Kibbe and Dick Armey, August 17, 2010.
"The establishment laughed at us…the media laughed at us… and the lobbyists laughed at us. But after the 2010 midterm elections; which was the largest electoral landslide since 1938 that was driven not by some “centralized party apparatus” but by real grassroots, tea party conservatives. It’s “the democratization of our political process”, and it's breaking up the two party system’s monopoly on power and money." Well put.
Dick Armey’s book (how convenient) reveals how the centralized bureaucracy of government is eroding our hard-fought freedoms and how the tea party movement can return America to the decentralized vision of our Founders. But he along with others are really only hijacking and dividing the Tea Party for personal gain otherwise they would support Ron Paul, the father of the Tea Party in 2007!
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