The problem is post-election, we have some folks using revisionist history to describe what the Tea Party was about.
The Tea Party was about smaller government, less regulation, and taxes.
If you examine the official platforms of major Tea Party organizations, you will not see any reference to social issues like abortion and gay rights.
Sure they are valid issues for conservatives but you can’t ipso post facto magically add them when they did not exist in the Tea Party platforms before the election.