Restorationists

Jonah Goldberg defines the Tea Party in the manner almost all of us have been discussing here. He sees it as it is.

Reading tea party leaves
Members have been portrayed as anti-intellectual and anti-elitist, but their goal is a system that reflects the Constitution and the precepts of limited government.
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Restoration and destruction are hardly synonymous terms or desires. And maybe that's a better label: a political restoration movement, one that reflects our Constitution and the precepts of limited government.

Read it all here.

These folks want their country restored.

Heck, look at our blog title, written by JBH over a year ago. It's about conserving American libertarian values (I'd argue virtues) and reestablishing common sense. It has been since the beginning.