Asking you to check out #80 in reply to your #16. IMO, the tea parties were a great event that could very well develop into a full-fledged movement, but if the enemy is given a free hand to define the “movement” then the whole thing is toast. So I think the best strategy would be a kind of pre-emptive self-definition. The question is, how to do just that.
I was serious, you know. If you are at a larger party, where you think they may appear...simply have some signs that say, “Hate group. Not part of tea-party.” With an arrow.
THAT might make the news.