I am neither shocked nor appalled by this:
Never mind Sarah Palin and the tricornered hats. The tea-party movement is dominated by conspiracist kooks.
via Tea Party Movement Is Full of Conspiracy Theories – Newsweek.com.
This was from a conservative author and Newsweek contributor. Tea Partiers have always seemed like a gathering of full metal jacket type wingnuts, nut jobs, Birchers, birthers and racists with enough of a sprinkling of actual concerned citizens to add a thin veneer of everyman to the affair.