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?

Comments

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I'm only repeating what I've heard from self-professed libertarians, and I have no interest in debating whether they are "real" libertarians or not :)

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

FWIW I believe q10 identifies as a libertarian, and I personally would consider him to be a liberal libertarian.