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Tea Party conservatives are not necessarily neo-cons.
by TDL 10y ago
Tea Party conservatives are not necessarily neo-cons.
- jtuente 10y agoWasn't the Tea Party movement started because of their disgust with neo-cons?
- TDL 10y agoThe movement coalesced around the bank bailouts. There was growing dissatisfaction with the Bush neo-cons, more around economic policies then foreign invasions (I would characterize the Tea Party as confident in American power, but ambivalent to slightly negative on foreign invasions.) I imagine that those who identified with the Tea Party are now disgusted with the neo-cons, but I don't believe there was a clear (or at least well articulated) aversion to them at the beginning.
- MrMullen 10y agoNo, it was started because a Black Guy got into the White House. Don't fool yourself, the Tea Party is simply a racist reaction to non-White person being in the White House. Budget wise, Bush was much worse than Obama and there was no Tea Party telling him not to invade Iraq and blow 2 trillion dollars on pointless wars. The Tea Party only came about when Obama took office.
- astine 10y agoEx post hoc ergo propter hoc.
- TDL 10y agoThis is absolutely false. The Tea Party coalesced after the bank bailouts.
- MrMullen 10y agoReally? http://www.britannica.com/topic/Tea-Party-movement http://www.britannica.com/topic/Tea-Party-movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement There might have been some reactions to the Bush Bailouts, but what is the Tea Party does not come into being until Obama is sworn in. Don't fool yourself, if Obama was White, there would be no Tea Party.
- madengr 10y agoThe original tea party was a Ron Paul (2007 pre Obama) movement. Unfortunalty it was co-opted by the Fox News tea party.
- jtuente 10y agoI think you thinking of his R-EVOL-ution (backwards LOVE) campaign, which is definitely unrelated to the Tea Party.
- dang 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11761501 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11761501 and marked it off-topic.