That article was like the many that bash Ayn Rand and "Atlas Shrugged" without naming principle or ideas. The Tea Party was and is many things to many people. I have posted here statistical samples of their goals and beliefs.

See "What is the Tea Party" here in the Gulch
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/35...

Most seem to be mainstream conservatives in their later years who have no specific ideology or agenda. They want "less government" but not "fewer taxes" and they seem to think (overwhelmingly) that Medicare and Social Security are good programs that work. They also admire George Bush and never heard of Ron Paul.

That said, the article was just a smear job. What is wrong with making money by selling people books about ideas that interest them? I also posted about John Cornyn here in Texas, a man who claims NRA support but who jumped on a bandwagon to empower the Federal government to close down any website whose CONTRIBUTORS violate someone's copyright (PIPA and SOPA). Cornyn voted for Obamacare. He is a big government Republican.

Let me ask you, Half Eagle, just what was "the original intent" of the Tea Party? You wrote: "certain Tea Party "affiliated" groups may not be aligned with the original intent." They never published any manifesto or credo. The Tea Party seems to be a political Rorschach Test. Whatever you bring to it you project your own meaning onto it.