Ron Paul vs Fascist Ex-Bushies

Really summed up by this comment (see full article here):

Were I a part of Ron Paul's base of supporters, I'd be alternately laughing and seething at the GOP's attempts to co-opt the energy of the RP/libertarian movement; their symbols, their linguistic identifiers, their oxygen. 'Course, the libertarians aren't alone in that experience. Digby has documented the Right's appropriation of many of the symbols and linguistic identifiers of the Left, too. Not unlike the rattlesnake that appropriates a prairie dog's burrow, the Right takes what others have built, and chameleon-like change their colors to support their apparent familiarity to those they wish to attract. In that way, the GOP has become a political parasite and dependent on unwitting or unwilling hosts. Their own agenda is so bankrupt it can't survive in the marketplace of ideas on its own.

I sure hope you're right about this.

For that reason, it's only a matter of time before the fundamental incompatibility of the "tea party movement" and the political party cynically exploiting it is exposed.

I think that's true for Ron Paul's core supporters, but I'm less optimistic about the ability of those more recently recruited by the libertarian poseurs like Glenn Beck. It'd be a delicate waltz for the Paul cohort to allow Beck to promote the principles, while hoping those recruited that way are sufficiently discriminating to recognize Beck, and others like him, for the frauds that they are.