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To have a unified stance, there must be leadership.
There is no leadership right now to the tea party movement, regardless of the media trying to find/install one. They want a leader because it's hard to report on an amalgam of viewpoints as opposed to one large message.
The problem is the Tea Party itself is not a group as much as a loose confederacy. Confederacies throughout history (Civil War not withstanding) only survive so long as there is an outside unifier (we all hate X, so lets stick together to defeat X). You have social liberal / fiscal conservatives, you have fiscal liberal / social conservatives (sneaking their way in, regardless of what they preach vs. enact), and all manners in between.
Asking this is like asking what any racial demographic wants... you'll never get an accurate answer.
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