re: #41 Charles

I am an avid and regular reader and yes, you have done a great job at pointing out how some of the ron paulian crazies have infiltrated some of the tea parties. That being said, you lack any empirical evidence to state that the “majority” of the tea party movements have been organized by the far-right loonies. Certainly some have, I am not disputing that. The origin of the tea party movement was simply the idea of fiscal conservatism and the desire to hold public officials accountable for racking up the worst debt our country has known outside of World War II. If there was a way to screen the paulians out of the movement, I would be all for it. But there’s not. The only thing we can do is publicly denounce them, which is what I love about your work. Just don’t lump all the normal fiscons into that camp, it is disingenuous.