re: #58 zombie

So, what I can gather from all this is:

a. Ron Paul is fairly crazy.
b. His followers and fans are even much crazier than he is — delving into all sorts of idiotic and long-debunked “paleo-conspiracies.”
c. Millions of “normal” Americans — including countless respected economists, analysts and politicians — are extremely unhappy about Obama’s economic, financial and tax proposals.
d. However, because the Republican Party is in “meltdown” (or perhaps “dormancy” is a better term) there is no political framework under which this unhappiness can be publicly expressed.
e. As a result, a series of grassroots anti-tax protests popped up (the “Tea Parties”), originally with no pre-existing affiliation.
f. Predictably, as soon as any public protest movement emerges, the extremists jump into the middle of the fray, grab the baton from the parade leader and assume the self-appointed “leadership” of the movement.
g. In this circumstance, the Ron Paul crazies, and a plethora of slightly-less-crazy crazies invited themselves to the Tea Party anti-tax protests, and now play a prominent role.
h. All the non-crazy legitimate people who wanted to protest the new economic schemes are now being “tarred by association” and having their ideas discredited by their unsolicited association with the Ron Paul followers.
i. There is nowhere left for Obama’s mainstream opponents to turn — and the liberals and neo-Marixsts take another victory lap.

Does that about sum it up?

j. Some of us tried to blow the whistle, to no avail.