You read too much into what I said.
I in no way attempted to make the Tea Party seem to be one giant organization wherein we all think a like.
I was speaking in very general terms.
You and I know the Tea Party isn’t really a political party, but it’s useless to try and tell Tea Partiers to do or not do something or the media will spin it wrong. The media treats the Tea Party as an entity rather than a loose (very loose) association of like-minded people, and the media will write whatever they want to write regardless. In other words, they’ll find someone associated with the “Tea Party” who says whatever they want to spin, and they aren’t above quoting out of context whenever they can’t find exactly what they want.