I don't know any tea baggers to ask but from what I've read on the interwebs, which we all know it gospel truth, There seems to be at least two separate groups of tea baggers. One is a grass roots kind of organization that is upset at government policies which are causing taxes to go up. They are for smaller government and lower taxes. Reagan era republicans if you will. Another groups seems to be democratic party members set out to discredit the first group with a dis-information campaign to divide and conquer the republican party at any cost. cite: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/third-party-candidates/117225-michigan-supreme-court-keeps-the-tea-party-off-november-ballot Looks like it's working. The liberals on this board hate the tea baggers. The conservatives don't trust them. And nobody seems to really know what they are about.