The original Tea Party was about taxation without representation. Obama didn't raise taxes, and there had just been a Presidential election with a clear winner. Do any of you remember the "mainstream media" asking, over and over again, what the Tea Party's basic principles are? I still don't understand what the Tea Party represents, other than an attempt to mask the failures of the Republican Party. The "libertarians" I've heard talk as Tea Party representatives appear to be completely out of touch with socio-economic realities, but we saw that in the debate, with claims about how charitable organizations would take over the health care needs of Americans who had no health insurance. Thus, I am still waiting for a reasonable Tea Party vision of the future of the USA (I'm not going to hold my breath).
From the MSM we now we hear, over and over again, that Occupy Wall Street has no principles. Isn't it obvious? Some of us, probably well over 70% if recent polling is any indication, do not want our nation to be run by "banksters." We don't believe that "corporations are people too" (but if they are, why don't they get closed down when they do what some of these banks did, which would be the equivalent of an actual person being sentenced to prison?). And we don't believe that we must live in a society that is bound by a right-wing pundit's view of capitalism (in fact, there is no mandate for any form of a capitalist economy in the US Constitution - we the people can decide upon the economic system we prefer to live under). Sarah Palin was certainly right about one thing; they are the "lame-stream media," though it's because they show no ability to apply standards equally, not because they ask a candidate what newspapers or journals he or she reads.
EDIT: How many of you know of any charitable organizations that have stepped forward and said that they would help people who can't afford private health insurance? Think about the tens of thousands of senseless deaths each year because so many Americans don't have health insurance. Surely, if a charitable organization could afford to prevent this, they would have done it a long time ago! And I get a good laugh when I hear the right-wing pundits say that poor people in the US can afford a CD player or a microwave. What good are those items if you can't afford to pay for the electric bill? Yes, poor people can afford to buy Band-Aids and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, but who is going to pay for the appendectomy?