Let’s keep this conversation simple.
Rush Limbaugh is full of shit and is a revisionist populist actively engaging in highjacking and either resteering or if he fails at that, capsizing the original straightforward message of the original Tea Party participants.
The origins of the Tea Party that is worried about overtaxation and out of control Government spending is actively protesting against out of control Government spending on foreign policy including State Dept and Defense Dept authorizations.
Johnny come lately hangers-on and special interest scoundrels draped in flags can voice their distortions through mouthpieces like Limbaugh, but Limbaugh has nothing to do with the Tea Party, and is just as much a source of comfort to the overspending and overtaxing Beltway insiders as is the Defense industry lobbyists who have paid certain Tea Party groups into forging an aggressive foreign policy to maintain and increase current Defense and State Dept budgets.
What you said.
From the beginning of the Tea Party, Washington insiders, and big party political bosses have attempted to hijack and mold it, into what benefited them.
Actually, no. We in the Tea Party - we who are “Taxed Enough Already” - oppose government growth, increasing interference in our daily lives, the bailouts and ObamaCare.
However, we are the Conservative base of the Republican Party and we believe in defense as a legitimate purpose of the Federal government. We are happy to take the war to the home town of the terrorists, to keep them busy outside our own Continent.