central health, the very fact that the tea party, which did not initially understand itself as presumably republican but understood itself as a kind of liberty aryan populist movement, now it found a home within the republican party, in part because we're a two-party system and there's no other place to be. but a tea party revolution is not necessarily we're looking at a strong and identity-based republican party. i think one might claim just the opposite, that part of what the tea party has done is draw the republican party farther to the right. you now have rick santorum as a leading candidate, someone whoa does not look like a very likely candidate for a general election. >> the tea party is about cutting spending and creating jobs. that's what the republican party is about. >> they seem to be these days about religion and contraception. >> if you want to go back historically, that's what the reagan revolution was about. carter had created a terrible economy and as a result republican ronald reagan a conservative was elected along with a republican senate. >> edward cox, stay with us. we'll come back on this. i ta i'd take reagan's tax rates ov