I’ve been spending some time at Tea Parties across the state and continue to be inspired, motivated, educated and motivated by the great folks I have met and with whom I share a commitment to limited and more responsible government.  Others have weighed in as well.

Peter Berkowitz had a good commentry in the Wall Street Journal on the Tea Party movement explaining why so many liberals just don’t get it.

Whether members have read much or little of The Federalist, the tea
party movement’s focus on keeping government within bounds and
answerable to the people reflects the devotion to limited government
embodied in the Constitution. One reason this is poorly understood among
our best educated citizens is that American politics is poorly taught
at the universities that credentialed them. Indeed, even as the tea
party calls for the return to constitutional basics, our universities
neglect The Federalist and its classic exposition of constitutional
principles.
 

Hood had this to say about Tea Partiers accused of being extremists:

If you think average Americans informing themselves, exercising their
rights, and challenging the pretensions of the political class are
properly thought of as extremists, that says more about you than it says
about them. It suggests that you are the extremist
.

And Mitch discusses Tea Party influence on the election here.