republican. why get involved with this movement? >> well, i'm not registered. tennessee doesn't register by party. i am a card-carrying republican. but in the last few years, the republican party has not listened to conservatives. we have been saying, and we said this during the bush administration, and we said this when republicans controlled congress, stop this insane spend i ing. they were spending like drunken democrats. they wouldn't pay attention. when you've got two parties that won't pay attention to you, obviously you've got to go someplace else. that's where the tea party movement got its start. the big theme of the tea party movement is the fact that government is not listening to us and the political parties are not listening to us. >> do tea partiers have any interest in being folded into the gop if it appears that the republicans are willing to take your concerns seriously? >> i don't know that we would be interested in being folded in. there would be a lot of interest in working with republicans. you know the old adage, my enemy's enemy is my friend. the tea party, at least in