Rand Paul opened his presidential exploration tour Friday with a splashy setof speaking engagements in Iowa designed to broaden his tea party brand into something more mainstream and, perhaps, viable.
But the biggest difference between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street is that the Tea Party is bound by a common setof values based on freedom, responsibility and property rights.
In January 2002, it set up a research group to study the origins of Lapsang Souchong tea, only to find that the Wuyishan Nature Reserve was the birthplace of this tea variety.