Tea Party Likes.

• Not afraid to question, criticize the establishment; their independent
• Anti-tax sentiment, especially when it comes to fees and hurting the average Middle Class American
• Anti-regulatory sentiment, and highlighting some of the abuses of our bureaucrats and their power grab
• Pushing for change and reform, a new breed of politician

Tea Party Dislikes.

• Too closely tied to Republican Party and Republican Candidates
• Too caught up in conservative rhetoric
• Takes libertarianism to it’s logical extreme — it takes questions of personal liberty to the extreme of corporate domination
• Too anti-union, anti-fair labor practices
• Unwilling to see when government can do the right thing

Indeed, if the Tea Party Movement could get away from all it’s conservative and libertarian extremist rhetoric, it would be something I could support.

If the Tea Party Movement could get behind moderate Democrats — those who progressive economically, but also libertarian or even somewhat conservative when it comes to social issues, it would be something I could support.

I don’t want to see our country ruined by a lack of a good government, nor do I want to see our country become a totalitarian state run by liberal activists.