Tea?

So I have read and heard a number of people lately who have attributed the Tea party supporters to different groups; radical and otherwise. I even read in a university newspaper how the president of their Republican club claimed the Tea party as part of or a sub set of the Republican party.
I blame the media mostly. The Tea party is a mercurial group of citizens who are finally fed up with government (INCLUDING the Democratic and Republican political parties) for one or more reasons . The Tea party includes young and old, conservative and liberal. It consists of the people who realize that our country is very quickly moving away from the values and strengths that have sustained it from the beginning. The Tea party wants Federal Government to be smaller, State Government to be more effective, politicians to be more responsible and citizens to be more informed and proactive.
I highly recommend we, the people listen more closely to those who speak out from the Tea party: it is the movement that has the best chance of saving these United States. The only thing you would betray by supporting this movement would be those people and ideas that would destroy this country and all she stands for.