[2) Go back and do some research on the various Tea Party organization’s official platforms.]
You mean like the American First Principles written in stone on the walls of the Jefferson Monument?
Been there, read that.
Also read the legislation Jefferson proposed to castrate sodomizers.
So again — NO SALE, TWIT.
That is certainly ironic coming from someone who has been warned multiple times on this and similar threads today and yesterday.
Once more, if the Tea Party movement ejects or marginalizes social conservatives it WILL FAIL.
Ronald Reagan understood and demonstrated that successful conservatism included fiscal conservatism, social conservatism and a strong national defense. That is the ONLY WAY conservatism works.
Libertarians may want fiscal conservatism (actually I don't think many of them care as long as they don't have to pay taxes), but libertarians also abhor social conservatism and they are failures when it comes to national defense.
And if you want to come back with some nonsense about being a "Goldwater Conservative" who only believes in fiscal conservatism and national defense, you should remember that Goldwater was the GOP's McGovern, Mondale and Dukakis all-in-one, Goldwater's version of conservatism FAILED (you will NEVER hear a liberal describe himself as a "Mondale Democrat").