[pgkdan]

"The idea that there"s one person, one event, that can somehow be the Tea Party spokesperson is inaccurate and counter to the movement of free-thinking individuals that want less government intervention," says John O"Hara, author of "A New American Tea Party." "This top-down model is what"s being rejected in politics, and that you"d adopt that for your movement is bizarre."

Couldn't have said it any better. The people sponsoring this event aren't authetic and I hope this fiasco fails.

[mnehring]

I couldn’t disagree more actually. While the initial foundation started as a ground up operation, if you expect real power, there needs to be an organized structure lest it becomes chaos.

The populist-structure type movement doesn’t work. You need people who have experience in national level fund-raising, organization, marketing, advertising. If not, it doesn’t grown beyond what you see and over time it starts to faction.

Groups popping up, like the Tea Party Nation are trying to coalesce all these local groups into a power force instead of a bunch of factions.