41% of Tea Party supporters agreed "there should be laws passed that restrict the ability of Muslims to practice their religion". Nice
"small government!"
The sad reality of politics is that neither major party actually supports small government. The Democrats support small government for social issues, but big government for everything else. The Republicans are the exact opposite. The green and constitution parties also support big government on some issues. The libertarians try to frame themselves as the ultimate small government party, but their most recent nominee supported the FAIR Tax. A government funded on a 23% sales tax doesn't really seem small.
Small government is not a political position that anyone actually holds. It's just rhetoric used to sound fiscally conservative - the reality is everyone wants government to be small on only the issues where they believe government is useless - elsewhere, they do want a big government.
