“The Tea Parties have awakened a lot of everyday people here and across America. And Ron Paul is worried about getting swept up in the anti-incumbent wave as if he is some exception.” — Tim Graney, one of Paul's primary opponents¹

Go figure, Ron Paul will have to fend off three Tea Party primary opponents! Oh my, the humanity! The humanity!

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“Real environmentalists live in cities, and they visit what's left of the wilderness as gently and respectfully as possible.” — Donna Moulton, letter to the editor, Tucson Weekly, published on August 23, 2001

So...?

EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE CHALLANGED!

Thats how you help to create good representatives... We need to hold their feet to the fire!

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Obama, Making it Rain Beotch!!

Wasn't Ron Paul like the original Tea Partier? Now Tea Party candidates are attacking him! It's like the French Revolution where the radicals guillotine the royals and then the ultra radicals guillotine the radicals.

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“Real environmentalists live in cities, and they visit what's left of the wilderness as gently and respectfully as possible.” — Donna Moulton, letter to the editor, Tucson Weekly, published on August 23, 2001

The libertarian veneer is coming right off the teaparty movement.

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First they came for the mimes, and I did not speak out, because I was a mime.

Ron Paul would never lower himself to the Tea Bagger level.

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Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got blacks the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things. They opposed health care reform but failed. Keep up the good work guys.

well yeah its kinda like that, except Ron Paul ain't going anywhere. People in his district LOVE him. NO matter what a few fringe radicals in an otherwise fairly normal grassroots movement think.

Um, apprently Ron Paul didn't get the memo: Tea Parties and the Role of Government | Ron Paul .com

Rep. Paul says he started the Tea Party movement.

Matt

i think its danny who didn't get the memo

Although Ron Paul makes some sense on government intrusion and/or economics, he is a thorn in the flesh and is essentially the equivalent to Dennis Kucinich.

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There are 10 kinds of people who understand binary: Those that do, and those that don't.

This isn't surprising at all. The Tea Party movement was quickly co-opted by conservative Republicans, proving that there is nothing in American politics that can't be subsumed by the powers-that-be when it proves expedient.

I always found it wildly inaccurate when the Ron Paul movement was labeled "populist". He's always been firmly grounded in principle. The Tea Party movement has become what Ron Paul's campaign was so often accused of being - namely populist demagoguery for ignorant rednecks. It's no shocker to see them opposing him.

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"Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
— Robert A. Heinlein

Ron Paul will demolish any teabagger opponent.

He spends a LOT of time meeting one-on-one with folks in his district. He says he has to since a lot of his votes ultimately go against what might provide immediate relief in his district (i.e. he votes against farm subsidies - because in the larger scheme that is better for everyone including farmers, although in the short term that hurts the farmers in his district).

Its my position that Teabaggers are about 3% Libertarian, and 97% ignorant/stupid. Ron Paul can probably take credit for being the figurehead for the 3% libertarian aspect to them.

I have no problem with ANY politician being challenged. I just think its funny that the teabaggers would challenge one of the few incumbents who actually is closer to their stated foundation than any other incumbents are ... but it makes sense since teabaggers are 97% ignorant/stupid. On the other hand there's only about 3% overlap with Ron Paul so I guess if they manage to drive him out and a bunch of other incumbents they'll be replacing 3% good incumbents and 97% stupid incumbents with almost an exact replica.

Ironically I also agree he is the equivalent to Dennis Kucinich although their platforms differ mightily, they both are politicians with integrity which is damn near non-existent among the other members of congress.

I don't think it was ever a full veneer, just a few paint flecks of libertarian color every so often.

And I thought I couldn't hold the current Teabagger movement with more contempt.

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Is our children learning? -George W. Bush

"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

Well said.

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