In the Washington Post today...

...it says that:

In Connecticut, GOP Senate candidate and former congressman Rob Simmons, regarded in Congress as a New England moderate, is linking himself to the tea party movement and carries a tea bag in his pocket along with a copy of the Constitution to try to fend off conservative primary challengers.

Sounds like an old Bela Lugosi movie, where people carry around garlic and a crucifix to ward off vampires.