I don’t think I was trying to spin any kind of false impression of who Tea Partiers are. I put my cred on this particular issue up against most anyone. I happend to see the Santelli rant live - and as it turns out, I know exactly how the Santelli rant video got to the top talk show and the top web site in the world, and even tho neither had ever covered Santelli before, they both went wall to wall with it. This exploded as a direct result of all of that.
Then I saw it explode onto the scene, including the phrase Tea Party, over the next 3 days, including from Robert Gibbs at the WH Press podium, threatening Santelli, to all the NBC networks, not just CNBC where Santelli reports.
Moreover, I have chronicled it in dozens of articles and two books as it unfolded over the past five years. I speak to TP groups and consult with them. They are more Christian, but not all of them, and their emphasis is not those issues for the most part. Some execptions of course.
If your self description is correct, then you know that I was merely posting accurate information.
The tea party is more Christian than republicans, is mostly Evangelical, and to the right of republicans on social issues.
I don’t know what has set off all this chest beating and self-aggrandizement from you, I don’t even know where the disagreement is.