A huge mistake being made by Tea Partiers is that the only message they have been able to get out is that they stand for 'Smaller Government and lower taxes' which essentially just makes them a special interest group.
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I am amused that being for the Constitutional limitations of Government is a "special interest group".
You are obviously swilling too much media kool-aid.
So what does the Democratic Party's pandering to low information voting dunces make them?