ignorance+hatred=violence

The bulk of the Tea Party followers are motivated by several factors:
hatred of Obama, hatred of liberals(which also includes centrists), simple-minded economics(let the danged banks fail!), self-interest (I got my dang Medicare so screw anybody that needs health insurance). What they lack is any rational thought-process to back it up. And so they step on the head of a defenseless woman. "hell, she ort to uv got a lot worse!"
And I used to think people in my home state had good common sense, at least.