Is the Tea Party playing a positive role in American politics?

The TEA Party movement is exactly what American politics is all about, the right of free expression and peaceful protest regarding the over-expansion of our government. This is pretty much what our founders fought for in many, many, ways is it not?

To make the statement that some people "find Tea Party participants to be anger and hate-filled people with a mob-like mentality spewing nothing but political rhetoric" without identifying those that feel this way, or specific instances of this type of behavior, is both cowardly and antogonistic in and of itself.

The TEA Party is good for American Politics in the long run despite the feeling of some detractors that believe it adulterates the effectiveness of the Republican Party. The movement has become a voice to be heard, not one to be ridiculed and ignored by all politicians across this country. This is exactly what its' creators and followers intended to accomplish, recognition!

I believe almost any third party to be an improvement over the bought and sold corporate government that we now have. Only a fool would think that either of the two major parties that have run this country literally in to the ground are the answer.