Ask LJ: Why does the Tea Party support Walker?

[asterroc]

Apparently the Tea Party supports Governor Walker's union busting. I don't get this at all. I thought the Tea Party was a conservative libertarian group. Shouldn't they resent the government interfering with and attempting to regulate how workers interact with employers? Or is their fiscal conservatism trumping their libertarianism?

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[q10.livejournal.com]

if you're claiming a majority of self-identified libertarians are in favor of the PATRIOT act and banning abortion, you're going to need to show some stats. (my understanding was that the PATRIOT act was a major way you tested the difference between libertarian-identified tea-partiers and conservative-identified tea-partiers.)