Has the Tea Party jumped the shark?

[halik]

As far as I could tell the Tea Party was dominated by hardline social conservatives from day one. When I first heard about them I was thinking "cool, a small government movement without the GOPs evangelical fringe" but that lasted all of about five minutes. Now it seems like the TP and the evangelical fringe are the same thing with the exception of a few big gov't social conservatives like Mike Huckabee and washed up failure Rick Santorum.

This.