re: #245 albusteve

…if I don’t look at him maybe he will go away?

I wish. It’s starting to look increasingly likely that the Republican party is moving towards embracing the wacky libertarians. I still can’t imagine they’d nominate Ron Paul in 2012 but it’s not completely impossible.
I think in the next 4 years as the economy recovers the Tea Party thing is going to be a big embarrassment and the Republicans will go in a better direction. If we get hyperinflation, Tarp fails, Stimulus fails, etc the Paulified Republicans have a chance.