Alex Pareene has a nice roundup of the GOP candidates views on science — all of them, except Jon Huntsman, are science-denying wackaloons who reject evolution. As we in Minnesota know, that's actually where Michele Bachmann's career got its start, campaigning locally against evolution.
But poor Ron Paul. He only gets a brief mention, and it's to say that he thinks the evolution debate is irrelevant. Au contraire! He fits in perfectly with the other Republican candidates. Watch him declare that evolution is just "a theory" and he doesn't accept it.
Darn that lamestream media — they just can't treat Ron Paul fairly. Come out and admit it, he's a perfectly representative member of the Nutbag Party.
(Also on FtB)
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