The article leaves out how the number of people who make up the Big Money GOPe could be gathered together in a large banquet hall while the Tea Party compromise millions of individual voters. So the Establishment has the ability to coordinate and select a favorite that is impossible for the Tea Party and other ideological subsections of the GOP.
“So the Establishment has the ability to coordinate and select a favorite that is impossible for the Tea Party and other ideological subsections of the GOP.”
That’s no excuse. It’s long past time that we got a “Tea Party Convention” going, before the Republican primary season, with delegates nominated by the local tea party groups to select a conservative candidate we can get behind. I think that something like that is the only way we can present a united front against the establishment GOP.