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I coined the phrase after the midterm elections in 2010 when I realized that the tea party movement was chock-full of conservative Christians. Indeed, surveys show a strong majority of them comprise the tea party. If you \u201craptured\u201d them from the ranks, you wouldn\u2019t have a serious and full-fledged tea party movement in the first place. Many of them are evangelicals (hence the new term) who believe our debt calamity is immoral and our federal government is obnoxiously unconstrained. They want a return to constitutionally limited government just like tea party Libertarians. They just happen to call it something different. They see it as a return to Judeo-Christian principles based on the belief that our Founding Fathers envisioned a country with limited federal power and the belief that an Almighty God was central to it all. <\/p>\n

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