[Din Maker]

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.

AWESOME IDEA!!! But, I have two Questions:
1. How can we pull off your plan?
2. How could we get the contenders who don't make the cut to swallow their ego and step aside?

[PapaNew]

The Tea Party doesn’t want to centralize. They are true believers in freedom and America and are smart enough to realize that once you create an official political party, the raison d’etre immediately changes to political party self-preservation over the best interests of America - what has happened to all political parties to date.

Best answer, see post #9.

[Boogieman]

“1. How can we pull off your plan?”

Well, I’m just the idea man, but I imagine it would take a lot of people volunteering for some hard work to organize it.

“2. How could we get the contenders who don’t make the cut to swallow their ego and step aside?”

That’s easier to answer. We simply let them know that anyone who doesn’t participate in our “pre-primary process”, or who doesn’t respect the results, is going to be blacklisted. No more tea party fundraisers to fill their campaign coffers, no more volunteers to man their phone banks, etc.