Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. And can even post it on a blog site.

Of course, one would sound insufferably silly to refer to “The United Counties of California” to distinguish it from “The State Government of California”.

But you could if you wish…

I would guess that’s one of the nice things about living in the United States = USA = United States of America which is not the federal government-else-we-would-say-“U.S. Federal Government”.

Which, by golly, makes it a very good thing that we have a federal government.

But if I had to guess, and I like to guess, then it refers to the difference between the United States (a corporation) and the United states of America (the conglomerate of individual states).

Therefore, the “United States of America” now refer to the 50 States of the Union, and the term “United States” refers to the federal government.

http://www.supremelaw.org/letters/us-v-usa.htm

This included Ron Paul fans, of course

‘included’, Windypundit #2? Is that like how Jimmy Wales was ‘included’ amongst the founders of Wikimedia?

The Republican Party and its handlers, …, did not create the Tea Party. Michele Bachmann and a few others did that.

Michele Backmann ‘and a few others’ *created* the Tea (Taxed enough, already) party?? I think, ‘co-opted’ is a better word.

On December 16th, 2007, supporters of Ron Paul staged a re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party as a fundraiser event, and to promote Paul’s bid for the presidency. Paul’s GOP campaign received a “moneybomb”, which broke the record for 24 hour fundraising. This event coincided with the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. This was seen as a major upset to the Republican GOP establishment.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Tea_Party_Movement#Beginnings

“…Is there some Ron Paul R3volution in the teabagging, do you think?– Racheal Madcow”
“… They really did come up with the concept of a ‘Tea party’…It is curious, though, as you point out; They do not use the verb ‘tea bag’.” — Generic infobabe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bNiDx7qTjA

( http://gawker.com/5983634/patriotic-american-ted-nugent-shit-his-pants-to-avoid-the-draft )

Worried about him? I’m more concerned with the “Dick Cheney types” than the Trump types. Cheney has spent his entire political career looking for ways to undermine the design of our government and turn the presidency into a dictatorship.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/

Little wonder he slithers through the dark corners and stays out of sight as much as possible. He *is* more the fascist type.

Of course the analogy wasn’t meant to be exact, just to raise concerns about the general similarities — the ones that should be worrying us. In the last 30 years, we’ve moved closer to the tipping point.