I tend to disagree here. She is courageous enough to go out on a limb with her own opinion but she is not showing good conservative judgement. That is what bothers me.
It's not that she has to perfectly reflect every single Tea Party point exactly, it's that she doesn't seem to see how her point doesn't allow for good negotiation strategy. Without that you can't win. You lose. That's bad.
What people have to decide is whether her courage comes from deep-seated Conservative principles or if it is a political calculation designed to keep her in the spotlight to further her future political goals. Given the utter lack of specifics in her rhetoric I'd have to say it appears to me that it is the latter......