[RitaOK]

Yes, but the original Tea Party you represented rocked it on their own dime. Nobody paid their airfare to go to DC, or for their shoe leather on the local street corners. The original Tea Party wasn’t a PAC production, but a people production that roused a nation.

[buckalfa]

"Yes, but the original Tea Party you represented rocked it on their own dime."

The strength of the Tea Party, grassroots with little or no formal structure, was also its weakness.