I just read a brief article where the first words were

"Texas Rep. Ron Paul was the only candidate at a Christian forum on Saturday opposed to amending the U.S. Constitution to define marriage as a heterosexual union.

Also appearing at the Thanksgiving Family Forum in Des Moines, Iowa were Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann"

Seriously, the ONLY ONE. And his reasons weren't for any tolerance-related issues- he's personally opposed to gay marriage- but for rock-solid Republican reasons, that he doesn't think more laws and more government interference will help things.

Ron Paul is a little nutty, and I'm definitely don't want him to be president, but when you compare him to people like Bachmann, Perry, or that foamingly hateful Santorum, he looks reasonable. It's surreal.


I agree with you about the Tea Party and OWS, in that I think both movements are stemming from a large, general dissatisfaction with the way things are going. I posted a graphic a little while back that summed it up nicely, I think. I've lost the link, but it was a Venn Diagram.

It said that OWS thinks corporations are the problem, and that Tea Party thinks the government is the problem, but that both parties can agree that corporations who use their wealth to heavily influence elected officials, who in turn give the corporations considerations, are the problem.


The image was less wordy.