Well, you can delude yourself into believing what you say, or take them at their words.
We will act on behalf of the Tea Party in ways which exaggerate their least appealing qualities, (misspelled protest signs, wild claims in TV interviews, etc. )to further distance them from mainstream America and damage the publics opinion of them.
Now, being the peckerhead you've shown yourself to be, you'll convince yourself, "You don't act like assholes to defeat assholes", when in reality, they actually tell you what their plans are..."to act like assholes" and to make false claims against the Tea Party group.
Actually, we've already seen it in interviewers that needle, push, and drive the interviewees into saying something that can be presented in an offensive way....just one unsophisticated protester is all it takes to paint the entire group in a bad light....it plays well to the stupid wing of the Democrate Party and to peckerheads like TCL