The American People are Extremists.

According to the press and the ruling elite in Washington the American people are extremists, especially the Tea Party. To steal from Jeff Foxworthy: You might be an extremist if:

you believe that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

you believe in the rule of law

you believe in lower taxes and fiscal responsibility

you believe that people have the right to life from conception to natural death

you believe in equal protection under the law

you believe in limiting the government to its constitutional functions

you believe citizens have the right to keep and bear arms

you believe in racial colorblindness

you believe the elected legislature not the executive, judiciary, or bureaucracy have the authority to write laws

you believe in equal opportunity not equal outcome

you believe in the nondiscriminatory application of freedom of speech and expression

you believe in blind justice

It looks like if you believe in the founding principles as stated in the Declaration of Independence, and in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights your an extremist.