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The weirdnesses, contradictions and rifts are running rampant within the so-called "Tea Party" movement.
Here's the latest (but certainly not the largest) in a series of "clouds on the horizon" re the whole Tea Party circus. "Tea Parties Stir Evangellicals' Fears":
"'There’s a libertarian streak in the tea party movement that concerns me as a cultural conservative,' said Bryan Fischer, director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at the American Family Association. 'The tea party movement needs to insist that candidates believe in the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage.'"
Nothing like a "cultural conservative" -- embracing a gov't being intimately acquainted with our bedrooms and bodies; advocate of America's kids being indoctrinated by the gov't re a 6,000-year-old earth and Jesus Horses -- fearing that "libertarian streak."
Not the only rift here. That's Exhibit A. Below are a couple more, Exhibits B and C