Those particular Tea Party activists don’t have to be “against” some of those social conservative issues, pertaining to gay marriage or abortion - or even military and monetary support for Israel (for example) ... they just have a “no comment” or “hands off” position and don’t fight for it - in order just to concentrate on those original issues put forth by Libertarians and bring in a wider audience. They sacrifice those issues ... not “fight against them”.
What I’m telling you is who the tea party is, so far you want to argue what the tea party is focused on, which no one disagrees about.
“”The tea party is made up of the more conservative, which also means the more religious, and more social conservative, only idiots thought that the tea party was made up of libertarians.””