Many Liberals like you have an issue with this gift also. President Obama's birthday is on August 4th, and the Republican National Committee is sending him a copy of the Constitution.
Whether they "think like Paul" is irrelevant. The TP is simply a cover for those who want to voice or in some other way act out their hatred and intolerance with a large degree of impunity. To suggest that this has something to do with "principles" is naive.
And yet you fail to prove this opinion of yours in the article you posted as an example. Most of us here believe the TP is a group of people who have organized because they are fed up with ignoring the constitution, and the failure of government is finally something they can no longer stand.
They didn't applaud the "thesis". They applauded the fact that people have to take responsibility for their own actions/choices. Actually, it makes you ignorant or biased. Or both. Probably both.