Reuters’ Nick Carey spent some time with Speaker Boehner’s Tea Party constituents in Ohio as well as with other Tea Party groups and learned they are seriously angry with those elected members of the Republican party who aren’t voting to blow up the economy. These people seriously want to keep the debt ceiling from being raised, they want drastic cuts in spending, and they are talking about putting up primary challengers to the Congresspeople who don’t see the world their way. Check this out:

Perhaps the highest-profile member of the House whom Tea Partiers hope to unseat is Eric Cantor. Karen Hurd of the Virginia Tea Party Alliance is working on a two-pronged strategy to challenge him. The House Majority leader is considered conservative by many, but Hurd says he is a RINO.

Hurd is compiling an “information campaign” highlighting his record, including voting for the unpopular 2008 bank bailout. If the campaign gains traction, Hurd wants to find a challenger, though she acknowledges that is a tall order. Cantor’s is a safe seat and he can raise a lot of money.

“Right now Cantor is impregnable, but if we can make him vulnerable then he can be primaried,” Hurd said. “A few years ago challenging Cantor was inconceivable. The big change now is that while it’s a huge challenge, it’s not impossible.”

To most Democrats Cantor is a raving lunatic; to these people he’s not far-right enough.

One does wonder if they’ve thought this through. Suppose they successfully primary people like Dick Lugar of Indiana, Boehner of Ohio and Cantor of Virginia. Do they really think the candidates who beat those three are going to be attractive candidates to the non-Tea Partiers in their states or districts?

I’m not impressed with the quality of strategic thinking they’re doing. But they’re definitely true believers, and those kind of people scare me.