Well the thing is the term “Tea Party” has been co-opted by people ranging from almost every Paulbot under the sun, to out and out liberal scum like that creep McAllister in Louisiana, to random millionaires who never showed any interest in politics until they decided to run or who donated mostly to democrats in the past, to GOP establishment Princess Liz Cheney. So it’s almost meaningless.
You just have to look deeper to see what candidates really are. Words are cheap. Every Republican says “I love Reagan”, so it’s meaningless.
As for self-identifying, I’ll think I’ll stick with plain old conservative Republican.
tea party nation has endorsed mitch mcconnell . the group calls bevin dishonest. this could be a bad primary season for the tea party.