[quote]John S. wrote:
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
[quote]John S. wrote:
You mention Sarah Palin but don’t mention the other side of the tea party Ron Paul. Want to hear the Tea Party talk about anti drugs come listen to us. You don’t understand the movement.[/quote]
I was quite surprised to read this, as I had seen a video some months back where Ron Paul was quite adamant about NOT being a part of the tea party. Has he changed his position since his son began running? I quickly googled “Is Ron Paul a Tea Party Member?” and this was what popped up:
According to this:
[i]speaking to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night, Paul first took up for the tea parties as a natural reaction of the people when they are unhappy with government. What they are not, he explained, are entirely adherent to his ideas. Paul suggested that the group only “sometimes” represents his views.
“My message is somewhat different,” he said. “The message gets somewhat diluted” with large movements of this nature.
“Everybody likes to join what looks like a popular movement, then they want to come in and influence that movement,” Paul continued.
His core issues, such as creating transparency at the Federal Reserve, recalling overseas soldiers and ending the drug war, are “not what is generally heard from the Republican party,” he said.
“Sometimes the tea party accepts these ideas, sometimes they don’t.”[/quote]
Their are many in the Tea Party who look to Ron, I would say almost all support auditing the federal reserve. That is something Ron Paul has been championing since the mid-late 70’s. I would also say that many in the tea party are open to ending the federal drug war.
Having talked with many tea party supporters, wether Ron likes it or not many do look up to him and what he says now does carry a huge influence.(funny how a year and a half changes peoples minds).[/quote]
They look up to him, sure. But as he claims not to be a member, he certainly isn’t “the other side of the tea party” or “a tea party leader” is he?