[Maceman]

I'm not ready to characterize the TEA Party as conservative, yet. They are more libertarian and solely fiscal-issue centric, an libertarianism is NOT strictly conservatism. Not to say that conservatives can't identify with the TP.

I'd love to live in a country where the two major competing political groups are the conservatives and the libertarians.

That would be a colossal improvement over what we have now, where the major political opponent is the totalitarian left.

[fwdude]

Yes, that would be an improvement. But the way libertarians denigrate real conservatives, we wouldn’t miss the abuse from the Left.