They may have joined the Tea Party if the Tea Party wasn't co-opted by religious freaks and people who have a social agenda. Does Michelle Bachman come to mind? The Tea Party should have stuck strictly to the economy, instead there were the wackos who took over the script. Do you think that gun toting fat white people with teabags hanging around their head and misspelled signs did the movement any good? They're just as bad as all those 'dirty hippies'.