The Tea Party is a minority in the U.S. It doesn't represent the majority of Americans.
They seek no middle ground. If anything, they are puppets for the Kochs and the Armeys.
They are not a genuine grass roots organization but a reactionary offshoot of Americans For Prosperity. If you want to know who the Tea Party really is, please do your homework
and research it.

They are emphatically not middle of the road Americans but radical extremists.