Incredibly.
my point is that it's not really a
de jure organized political party (or even a
de facto one). and while one legislator's conduct shouldn't be seized upon as indicative of his entire party's morality (or at least that's what I was told for the whole weiner thing... heh), it's especially difficult in this case. not only do most people who'd admit to being adherents of the movement
not point to any one 'leader', but you've got bible-thumping moral majority fundies mixed in with strident atheist libertarians and everything in between. it could (successfully) be argued that this whole hooker scandal incident establishes that the tea partier in question is in fact a typical American politician, but to take it much farther than that moves us out of the realm of reasonable conjecture.
