"It's elementary, my dear Watson," sez Gallup

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As seen on Hullabaloo, The Gallup Organization has applied state-of-the-art polling and statistical analysis methods to reveal that Tea Partiers are pretty much nothing more than core right-wing Republicans, if ones who like to act out and pretend they're the heirs to the philosophy of America's founders. If Fifty50 had a "No Shit, Sherlock" department, this revelation would headline it today.

However, I won't disdain Gallup for doing the survey or publicizing the results, because I think it's good that this fact be consecrated as "official" by an organization that establishment types consider to be legitimate. I will, however, disdain any reporting that Gallup's findings are surprising to any politically sentient American.