The Tea Party ideas are the REPUBLICAN Party ideas.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/tea-partys-failed-propaganda-it-was-always-tool-republicans?akid=11846.294211.CtSeIC&rd=1&src=newsletter996164&t=9

To be a Republican anymore, you have to think like a TeaPartier.

 as John Boehner explained just yesterday:

You get in these primary elections – they are hard-fought battles and sometimes – listen, there is not that much, not that big a difference between what you call the tea party and your average conservative Republican.