re: Liberty Kids (move over Tea Party?)

I think the Tea Party was slightly demonized by the media as a radical right wing segment of the Republican party to discredit it from the beginning. I do not think that was the Tea Party's original intention. I believed they were all about financial conservatism.

I do think that over time, old-school Republicans saw the traction the Tea Party was gaining and jumped on board bringing the very thing that was bringing the Republican party down over with them. Now there are so many, the Tea Party really doesn't have the same effect as it did before.

I'm a very financially conservative person, but probably don't share a lot of Republican views on social issues. The Tea Party used to seem like a good fit. But with some of the Republicans who have been the face (although the media may be painting them as "leaders") of the Tea Party over the past years, I really don't give them any feel like I align with them anymore.