Oh stop it. Ron Paul is not a Tea Party candidate. Bachmann certainly is, but Ron Paul is most definitely not.
Ron Paul has the same constituency, largely college kids, he had in 2008 - he's just had 4 more years of organization to turn out more of them.
University mush-heads who want to legalize pot, believe in a peacenik isolationist foreign policy, and think there is some hidden truth to 9-11 are NOT Tea Party.
The only reason Ron Paul isn't torn to shreds over his more bizarre views, particularly on foreign policy and things like drug legalization, is because no one actually believes (for good reason) that he is a serious candidate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNjzjUABss
Rand Paul at Ron Paul Tea Party 2007
That’s a video there. On December 16, 2007, The Ron Paul Campaign had a number of Tea Parties all over the country. Rand Paul (who, inconviently for you, is the poster boy for tea party) spoke at one of them, at Faneuil Hall in Boston.
If you aren’t looking at “tea party” right there, I don’t know what you’re looking at.
Go back and find footage, find something, somewhere that shows that tea party has a clear foreign policy. Or a position on marijuana that differs from Ron Paul’s.
Just because you personally, think of yourself as “tea party”, and you personally disagree with Ron Paul on foreign policy, doesn’t mean that the tea party has a clear foreign policy that contradicts Ron Paul’s foreign policy.
If you can find video of people at tea party rallies talking about how we need more war and that the Federal Government needs to be involved in marijuana laws, I’d like to see it.
It’s pretty hard to argue that Ron Paul isn’t tea party after looking at the #1 tea party star from the freshman class of ‘10 speak, saying tea party things, at something officially billed as a “tea party” event that was also an official Ron Paul event.
You could easily say about that clip “that was the first moment of the tea party” Santelli could’ve used anything to describe what he was after, he chose “tea party”. Ron Paul raised over $6 Million on Tea Party Moneybomb day.
I would not be surprised if Ron Paul reminds people of this.
Of course, if you can go back before
With Ron Paul’s anti war, anti Israel stances and other things he proffers, would appeal to many in the left leaning crowd.
I am starting to think an independent run for prez by Ron Paul would hurt Obama more than a conservative GOP candidate.