The Tea Party crowd is a mixture. Few minorities, as the minority population has been traditionally not conservative. Most are older or middle aged. Some are gun nuts, some don't like the tax bite they are feeling. Some of course, at least latently, don't like having a black president. All individuals with independent perogatives, kind of like most Americans.
I've talked to some of these folks in the city last year when there was a rally, a lot of boring and repetive dribble with a casual grasp on the issues, not at all unlike the people I've spoken to around anti-war and IMF rallies.
I think the Left is overblowing the extreme elements of the Tea crowd, creating a scapegoat and a boogieman profile to try to motivate the electorate. Truth is there will never be Tea Party candidates in elections outside of a few rural states, it's all hype. And all the bullshit about Christian extremism is the same canard. Bush was supposed to be such a hardline evangelical, besides stem cell, there really was no difference under him or Obama.
Nothing to see here. Move along and get back to work already.
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