Marcy,
My recollection is that most of us wanted to engage with the Tea
Party, and that we did to some extent, but that there was some dissent
primarily over the question of whether the libertarian message of
opposing extra-national military interventions by the U.S. government
would be welcome at their events. Sorry to hear you experienced it as
being "shouted down". My guess is that a lot of it was just the usual
LPSF hesitancy to work in coalition with others.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))