What is important, in the grand scheme of things, is religion and virtue, and I can guarantee you that Tea Partiers are far ahead of the Marxists and libertines, in this category.
It is true. People who are directly connected through prayer, meditation and openness to the Holy Spirit are channels for a higher level of intelligence -- a spring of "living water". On its way through the mind of the faithful to inspire God's purposes, some of the Divine Mind rubs off.