The Tea Party -- Like Herding Cats

We hear a lot on the news about the current Tea Party Movement.

But what are they?

In my mind, they're a bunch of small minded, bigoted (even racist), conservatives who want to roll back time, back to the 50s when white was right and America's might dominated world politics.

Of course I think they're deluded.

But I read this most interesting piece about the Tea Party Conservative. Especially interesting was about halfway down the article, "The Three Flavors of Tea". According the article, the Tea Party movement is a mish-mash of various political misfits.

Talk about herding cats! They're lucky they can agree on a place and time to demonstrate!

The Time article, The Making of the Tea Party Movement by David Von Drehle, really captures the Tea Party mentality, explaining it to the rest of us who look at crowds of mostly middle aged and older whites, signs bobbing up and down with monkeys and trite slogans, and say "Whaaaaa?"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100219/us_time/08599196490300;_ylt=AsX7KxX5udIvfKh3HyO1gBrQOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTM1czdtYzAzBGFzc2V0A3RpbWUvMjAxMDAyMTkvMDg1OTkxOTY0OTAzMDAEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM0BHBvcwM0BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDYW5hbHlzaXN0aGVt