Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), had a rare moment of candor in an interview with Kathryn Jean López of the National Review:

Q: Tell me about this bus tour you’re on. Why did you come up with the idea in the first place?

A: Gay-marriage advocates have a well-organized grassroots movement they’ve built over the years. Conservatives tend to rely on spontaneous mass uprising. I think HRC’s model is more effective — after all, it’s allowed a tiny fraction of Americans to have an outsize influence all disproportionate to their actual numbers. Social conservatives need to learn (as I think the pro-life movement has learned) that we need to organize politically to make a difference. We wanted to make sure that the majority of Americans who support marriage as the union of husband and wife are not drowned out by a loud minority, or by a biased media. Even the conservative media (with certain key exceptions — thank you, NRO!) does not cover this issue well. This bus tour is our first step in bypassing the media, becoming culture creators ourselves, and getting our message out to our supporters.

The Tea Partiers yell quite loudly but numerically they're not even one percent of the US population. Brian Brown is, for once, right. The Tea Party Movement is little more than front for Dick Armey's Freedom Works who have manipulated a tiny fraction of Americans into a crazed frenzy. And their influence is disproportionate to their actual numbers.