Calling Ron Paul a &quot;tea party&quot; candidate is accurate only if you recognize the Tea Party as a grassroots libertarian movement that, among other things, supported gay rights.  Calling him a &quot;libertarian&quot; candidate would have been more appropriate.<p>While the TEA PARTY was a libertarian movement (That supported gay rights) the term was not trademarked and was quickly hijacked by propagandists on the left and the right to try and pretend like it was a neocon movement.<p>This shows the wisdom of Linus Torvalds and Satoshi Nakamoto trademarking Linux and Bitcoin respectively.<p>Alas, having read this blog, I feel it is pretty well spun to support a vary specific political bias and I&#x27;m not surprised they made this statement-- probably attempting to portray Ron Paul as a neocon deliberately.<p>I know they are YC alumni and thus I risk being banned for daring to criticize them.  But at some point you gotta get out of your filter bubble and realize there&#x27;s a real world out there.