Time for a Tea Party?

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To listen to its followers, there are few nobler ideas on the current political spectrum than America’s newly minted Tea Party. Never mind that it borrows its name from a protest in Boston over an imperialistic tax on tea, or that the moniker has been hijacked by a state-registered political party whose endorsements are an alleged scam to split the Republican vote. The original 21st-century Tea Party, proclaim its disciples, is simply a collection of people bound by a common belief in fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets. And who can argue against that?
Let me begin by saying I knew precious little about the Tea Party before talking with Toby Hill, president of the Vero-based Hill Group as well as chairman of the Indian River Tea Party’s executive committee. Personally – Sarah Palin notwithstanding – if I’m “going rogue” about anything, it involves technology or a long line. Nevertheless, I am painfully direct in the quest for the truth about pretty much anything.

Read the entire article in the September-October 2010 issue

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