The True Face of the Tea Party on Letterman

It isn't some spit-flecked KKKer but a retiree from Idaho.

In a quietly remarkable piece of television, David Letterman interviewed Tea Party member Pam Stout on last night’s Late Show. “I know nothin’ about the tea party,” Dave began, saying Stout had come to his attention after the 66 year-old Idaho woman had been featured prominently in a Feb. 15 New York Times story on the Tea Party movement.

Letterman invited her on to ask about the movement and whether it aimed to become a “third party.” She said, “I don’t think it will become a third party,” but that its voice “can be pretty devisive” in some elections, and that locally, she wanted the Tea Party to “take over the Republican Party… [and] go back to the old ideas.”

You add to this woman all the WW2 and Korea vets and families with small kids and you get a cross-section of the vast majority of the Tea Party. They aren't crazy and they don't want to secede from the Union or other nonsense. The aren't even the so-called angry white men for the most part with 55% of their number made up of women.

They simply do not want to pay for some other guys mortgage and health care. They also want America to stop spending Red China's money like there is an endless supply of it. It is really a pretty simple message of "How do we pay for the next giant pile of spending coming our way?" They fear that piling up so much debt will hurt our country in future years.