There are a lot of Republicans who jumped on the Tea Party bandwagon and it's perfectly fair to ask where they were during Bush's reign.
BUT ... a lot of them are independents and libertarians who loathed Bush and the two party system. Many of them are Ron Paul supporters and when he lost the Republican primaries began organizing events that were inevitably going to attract Republicans who are more "anti-democrat" than pro-something.
It's not really fair to generalize any group... and personally I'm far more interested in what their movement is for than what they are against.
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