Generally their positions are outside the mainstream one way or the other. The Tea Party certainly is.


Mike, you might want to take a closer look at what some people in the Tea Party are saying. "Tea party activists" aren't nearly the kooks that the liberal press would have you believe (though I was strongly disappointed that they wanted Palin as a keynote speaker). I had an intense argument the other day with the person who "introduced me" to Ayn Rand - this person is now a big Palin supporter. Palin is nothing but a feeble specimen of window-dressing, a ditto-head.