Huh?

/scratches head

Not sure where you got some of those ideas. Though some of the things you say could certainly be ascribed to a few who claim to be tea partiers, I dont understand how you could pin it on even a large minority let alone a majority of the whole group.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)