"We offer this to assist Tea Party types in becoming more worthy of rubbing shoulders with what David Brooks of the New York Times calls the "educated class." It is alright to sit back "happily chewing on a Twizzler," Brooks says, because the ruling class has life figured out for us by virtue of its superior intellect and education. But once we decide to get in the game, Brooks points out, we have to put down our Twizzlers and get serious. Leaving aside the question of how familiar he is with life west of the Hudson River ("Ladies and Gentlemen, please put down your Twizzlers and stand for the national anthem..." or "Yeah, I'm thinking of going out with him -- I just love the cut of his Twizzler"), Brooks has a point: Tea Partiers, ordinary Americans all, need to become more like the political, media and cultural elite. It doesn't happen overnight; hence, our series "The Tea Party Guides to Insider Wisdom.""
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