[Steely Tom]

I think that your average Tea Partier is just as unhappy about the out-of-control debt, Obamacare, the politicization of every agency of government, the uncontrolled data capture and spying on US citizens, and the foreign policy that stabs our friends in the back while kowtowing to our enemies.

That's a "hodgepodge of extreme positions," a "rambling grab bag of hot-button issues."

[Reno89519]

The two key issues are immigration and Obamacare. The others are, for the moment, distractions. Immigration, like others are writing, has a timer and if not undone soon, will be very difficult to reverse.