"The current mainstream of self-identifying Tea Partiers loathes Ron Paul because he’s the guy who shows up with Jack Daniels to a party of 12-year-olds who are pretending to be drunk on O’Doul’s. Paul’s very presence makes a mockery of every Sarah Palin Tea Party “liberty” t-shirt, every Eric Cantor “freedom” bumper sticker and every bedazzled bald eagle. Paul’s events expose the mainstream Tea Party for the fundamentally Christian conservative organization it really is—the kind of “party of the Constitution” that nonetheless wants to legislate bedrooms and can pretzel its reasoning into supporting the likes of Gingrich and Santorum, who are exactly those career political tumors of the D.C. system that the movement claims to despise."
