[quote]since the Inauguration Goldman stock is up 211%[/quote]

Hmmm. Since the Inauguration; Affymetrix is up ~300%. Sorry about your picks. :rolleyes:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AFFX&t=1y

I think the reason that Dr. Ron isn’t taken more seriously is the degree of insanity demonstrated regularly by his supporters. They don’t call them Paultards for nothing.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Paultard

Oh, and the tea partiers are and have always been a bunch of folks led around by Dick Armey’s “FreedomWerks”. A tiny little search with Google will easily prove that’s where the idea started. Grassroots my eye.