re: #65 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

I like to think the Tea Party movement started out as people really, honestly angry with the government and fed up with the “answers” they were being given. But along the way, like many such fledgling movements, they got co-opted by people with their own goals and ambitions and turned into yet another “big tent” under which those who were lacking a pulpit and an audience gathered to fleece the ignorant and the naive. It happened with the “anti-war movement,” with everybody from MoveOn to ANSWER using Bush-hatred to fleece the useful idiots of their money and gain temporary prominence.

You’d like to think that, wouldn’t you?

But in fact the teabaggers got started because certain people could not accept the results of the 2008 election. It was a totally manufactured movement from the very beginning.

Tea Party™.