This past Saturday, March 27, 2010,somewhere between 10,000 to 20,000 Tea Party conservatives descended upon Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nevada. Depending upon what side of the political spectrum you read the event was either a gathering of gap-toothed, pistol-packing Neanderthals or fervent patriots waiting for the chance to serve their country to the bitter end. The reality is somewhere else entirely.