http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/opinion/05brooks.html
He makes an interesting point, but are they really that similar? Yeah, they both want to eliminate corruptness in government, but do the Tea Partiers really want to dismantle the entire government and start over?
For you Constructionists, I'd have to say that not ALL of the government needs to be taken out. Some of it's still good (I guess at least in theory), so scaling-back is definitely necessary, a few personnel changes, too, but let's not scrap the whole thing.
Can we get back to the Constitution the founders wrote and work from there?