April 27, 2010 12:57PM 

# Advice to Tea Partiers 

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The Tea Party movement may endure, but its endurance will be a testament to its ability to understand that cutting government means having a long-term focus, says John Samples, author of the Cato book [*The Struggle to Limit Government*](http://www.amazon.com/Struggle-Limit-Government-Political-History/dp/1935308289). In a [new video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4AdiydIDsM), Samples outlines an assessment of what Tea Partiers should do if they want to sustain an effort to cut government.

He offers five pieces of advice for members of the Tea Party movement:

1. Republicans aren’t always your friends.

2. Some tea partiers like big government.

3. Democrats aren’t always your enemies.

4. Smaller government demands restraint abroad.

5. Leave social issues to the states.

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