re: #196 wrenchwench

Tea Parties were started by Ron Paul in 2007. I don’t know whether he has been hijacked, but that might explain the dissonance of “liberty and less government” being combined with his extreme anti-choice stand.

1. Wikipedia is not authoritative, but their description of the Tea Parties’ origins differs from yours. Wikipedia describes Paul as the single greatest intellectual influence.

2. Paul’s position on abortion sounds like doubletalk to me. Anyhow, I can’t support Paul after Charles’ posts about him.

3. Fyi, while searching for the above links, I came across this libertarian comparison of Ron Paul and Gary Johnson.