Big Government Spending
Tea Partiers, being mostly rural folks it seems, want to keep federal subsidies for small airlines operating in small towns. Republicans wanted to kill this (maybe they are rich enough to afford their own planes).
Similar interesting issues exist with agriculture subsidies.
Racism
The Tea Party will tell you all day long they aren't racists, but in an organization full of people on the right of the spectrum they are going to show up. The latest was at a public rally in Arkansas where one of their yahoo leaders told a racists joke about the lazy black people.
Don't look so anti-people
Don't spend energy trying to protect the rich from taxes while seemingly not caring about clean air, clean water, or allowing women to make their own choices.
Drop the "patriot"
Because the Tea Party believes in the old time staunch Republican conservative line makes them no more American than anyone else. Conservative does not equal patriotic. That's something the Republicans made up a few years ago and doesn't fool anyone.
Other traps to avoid
Evolution and climate change aren't politics; they are science. If you want to refute scientific data with your own data that's fine.
Tequila Party clean up
We always clean up after all of our parties!
