I think the media intentionally connects him to Tea Party anything as a way to minimize the Tea Party sentiment as just kooky.
This is petty, I know, but every time I see him, I want to dump a bottle of shampoo on that greasy curly hair and douse him with a hose. I swear he reminds me that crazy Dem spokeswoman with the mayonnaise hair.
There’s a Rand Paul morphing into Eddie Haskell out there somewhere.