Writes John Nichols in the left-wing Nation about the Tea Party: “Even those who do not share his ‘Old Right’ libertarian views – which tend to be throwbacks to the stay-out-of-trouble abroad and keep-government-small at home positions espoused by Republican Senator Robert Taft in the 1940s and 1950s – can and should be encouraged by the fact that a candidate is breaking the rules and getting a resounding response from grassroots donors.” Read the rest, and thanks to Brad Funkhouser.