Here's installment number two of my platform

2.  There would be no Tea Party if the republican party were representing their constituency.  As it is, somewhere between 18 and 31 per cent of voters support the tea party depending on which poll you believe.  Since the huge majority of tea party members are republicans and no more than 50% of voters are republicans it doesn't take a math prodigy to see that you can't win a national election as a republican without their support.  Having said that, do you really know what the tea party is about?  I took a look at their website www.teaparty.org and didn't see anything extreme about it.  In fact it was probably less inflammatory than Cnn.com or Foxnews.com.  The liberal press is trying to implant in our minds that there is something wrong with the tea party and if they say it enough it becomes fact, just like any other whispering campaign.  I can't support ALL of the political positions of the tea party, but I agree with most of their primary points.  If I were running for election I would make an active attempt to gain their backing.