I look at this at slightly different angle. The Tea Party is not about the future of the GOP, it is about the future of America. The establishment GOP is about the future of the establishment GOP, and the death of America via cooperation with the America hating left.
Enterprise, your post #27 is the most succinct and absolutely true statements about where we are today that I have ever read.
Every Freeper needs to see it. Well done.
The GOP establishment does not know/realize the frustration out here.. and they do not know or realize how many Tea Party People are out here. They have underestimated our numbers!
The Tea Party is not an organization, so to speak... it is a people’s revolt against what the left and the establishment is doing to us.. to our country.