A quote from a Tea Partier

Here it is:

“Some people say I’m extreme, but they said the John Birch Society was extreme, too,” - Kelly Khuri, founder, Clark County Tea Party Patriots.

Yep. No more extreme than the Birchers. I suppose you have to be as old as I am to remember a time when the John Birch Society was virtually the definition of "extreme" in America and Bill Buckley, founder of National Review among other accomplishments, drove them out of the conservative Republican ranks.