Isn't the Tea party the same as the Libertarian party?

Libertarians are not anarchists. tea party is like ultra right wing religious Republicans. Libertarians believe man can act in a manner that controls itself with out gods intervention but if some one wants to believe in God that is fine as long as they do not impose on someone who chooses not to believe. Libertarians still believe in having government

No. The Libertarians want to abolish all but what they consider to be necessary government. And they don't consider much to be necessary. To a Libertarian, the individual and his/her freedoms are more important than absolutely anything else, with the only limiting factor being summed up by the old saying "Your right to wave your fist in the air stops at the end of my nose." And even then, a lot of Libertarians will continue to wave fists, on the grounds that you should have ducked.

The Tea Party is essentially Strict Constructionist. The Constitution has been weakened and altered in ways other than the amendment process, despite the Constitution itself forbidding such a thing. Anyone who has sworn an oath to uphold/defend the Constitution, who tells you the Constitution isn't a suicide pact, or that it's a living document, has either broken their oath or is trying to justify doing so. Or both. The Tea Party wants a return to Constitutional law being the highest law of the land, where a court cannot rule against the Constitution by use of clever wordings or outright deliberate misinterpretation.

A good example of the difference between the two parties, is that a major issue for the Tea Party is the Second Amendment; The phrase well-regulated militia is as well-defined from a legal dictionary standpoint as any other words found in explicitly worded laws or legal contracts. Those words have highly defined and precise meanings, and almost every gun control law on the books violates the Second Amendment unless those words are misinterpreted to mean something different from what they have always meant. To a Libertarian, even the Second Amendment is something to be abolished; Not because they dislike guns, but because inalienable human rights should not be written down, codified in law. A government should simply not meddle, without needing a law saying it can't.

I've included a link to a web comic that is pure, unadulterated Libertarian propaganda (the whole web site is that way), but illustrates very well how a Libertarian believes utopia would look, as well as how a Libertarian views our current world. A Tea Party member would do quite well in a Libertarian utopia, but a Libertarian in a Tea Party utopia would be pushing almost as hard for the abolishment of government as they do in our real world.

Neither group advocates the abolishment of government. Both groups advocate for limited government as defined by the US Constitution. The Libertarian party is composed of people who are social liberals and fiscal conservatives. The TEA Party attract Libertarians, Republicans and Independents who are concerned about the fiscal insanity started by the Bush administration and continued by the Obama administration. The TEA party came into existence during Bush's term. They just didn't get as much media coverage then.

Good question. President Hussein Obama already calls the Democrats his "progressive friends" and the GOP has become too watered down. The Democrats have moved to the extreme left and the Republicans have moved to the leftward-moving center. I have always believed that voting for a third party was just throwing away my vote. My preference would be to see the GOP stop moving left to try to meed the uber-libs in a moving center and see the GOP become the party of Ronald Reagan, moving HARD RIGHT. Chop taxes, chop the federal government to the bone, with defense being the only big ticket item. Return usurped power back to the states where it belongs and adopt many of the libertarian ideas. For the most part, libertarians are the true conservatives.

No, they are not the same. Only anarchists support the abolishment of the federal government. Cutting government is not the same as abolishing it.

"True" libertarians (like me) were all over Bush just the same as Obama. I actually don't see big differences between them.

Some Tea Party members are libertarians, some have some libertarian leanings and some are conservatives. Some are neoconservatives. Some are just Republicans.

the libertarian party came out in 1971.

Libertarians (as a general rule) are not a Party of whom the majority of "members" are collecting government benefits whilst whining about government spending....Tea-baggers (as a general rule), ARE.....(including most of their de facto "leaders").

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/31/852524/-Te...

The Tea Party primarily focuses on only financial issues.

they don't advocate the abolishment of the federal government. they are not anarchists.

Right or wrong, Libertarians can usually explain their ideas with evidence, where teabaggers use romanticized rhetoric not based on reality.