Honestly if freepers and Teabaggers were around before the Revolutionary War....

[LynneSin]

they'd be demanding we'd stay with old King George.

These people don't want a president that is one of us they feel that only the super wealthy elite should be ruling them.

[krispos42]

1. Conservatives in 1776 wore red coats. n/t

[marybourg]

2. They were and they did. Most of them fled to Canada.

[Cleita]

7. Too bad we can't get them to Canada anymore.

I don't think the Canadians would want them. There is Alaska. Many of those freeper types talk about going to Alaska.

[Historic NY]

3. Exactly.

[MrScorpio]

4. They were…

We called them "Tories".

[lpbk2713]

5. One of the many things I find so disingenuous about them ...

is how they like to invoke the "founding fathers" so often.

These assholes couldn't be any further apart.

[Major Nikon]

6. They were around, but they were called Loyalists

The progressives were known as Patriots.