Actually, the Tea Party events are very well behaved and are comprised of very responsible people who are genuinely concerned over their country. This says a lot since their hasn't been such a movement for over two centuries. It was the Left Wing media that put a negative spin on these events, and you hooked into it. I went to two rallies. After all the people leave, there's no sign they were ever there. No trash or anything. These are the people I want to identify with.
Many times, those ranting people are planted there by the media, and this is what they film for later broadcasts. But there was never any ranting people involved on the part of the participants.