Don’t let any pretentious pontificating Libertarian/ Objectivist tell you they had anything to do with the advent of the Tea Party. If anything, with their virulent intolerance for Christianity, and given that around 80% of Tea Party supporters respect that faith, they were an impediment to it kicking off. It was a book that got it all started. Namely Mark Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”. The American Spectator has a great article on the book and the role it played in starting the Conservative Revolution.
Quote – And it isn’t often that a book — any book, even a popular, bestselling book like Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto — can be said to have changed the course of American politics and history. The phenomenon is rare, extremely rare, usually taking both the country and even the author by surprise.
Yet Levin’s book has done just that, saluted by Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in an exclusive talk with The American Spectator as “providing [the] intellectual balance and foundation” of the Tea Party movement.
When Mark Levin decided — in 2008 — that it was time to write a book about the importance of what he saw as “the modern liberal assault on Constitution-based values” no one, Levin included, could see what was coming.
LEVIN IS, FAMOUSLY, a considerable talk radio star, ranked number four in the nation with eight and a half million listeners. He is as well the longtime head of the conservative Landmark Legal Foundation. A former Reagan aide, Justice Department lawyer (serving as chief of staff to Reagan attorney general Edwin Meese III, among other positions in the government) and conservative activist who began his march on liberalism as a precocious 13-year old, Levin is no recent entry into discussions of law, politics, or conservative principles. His friend Rush Limbaugh calls him “F. Lee Levin” in humorous reference to the great trial lawyer, but the humor alludes to Levin’s significant legal abilities that doubtless played a role in his ability to write a book that has stirred such consequence. -Unquote
I’ve read the book a couple of times. I’ve listened to Mark’s radio show almost daily for years. I consider him the most effective Conservative voice in the world. The full article is here. If you have any kind of desire to fully understand the birth of the Tea Party and its objectives, I strongly recommend a read. Of the article and the book.
You can listen live to his shows here. (in the right time period) Or download a commercial free recording of each day’s show and listen anytime. That’s what I usually do.
The Spectator Article Is Here.
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