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Well, the ugly truth is that Palin lost a tremendous amount of political momentum and much of her grassroots infrastructure (best seen in such sites as Organize4Palin and Conservatives4Palin) when she told Mark Levin that she was not running for President. Those groups and others are still around, but much of their energy and membership has simply dissipated over the past year. Moreover, PalinTV (which was a strong effort to bypass the MSM and to get Palin's unedited words directly out to the public) no longer has its own web presence but is now just a Youtube channel. I'm not sure that she will ever be able to recover what she has lost by her decision, unless she runs for and wins Begich's seat in 2014, which would revitalize her political standing and give her a springboard for 2016.

As far as the TEA party movement goes, it is in fact in some disarray now, mostly at the hands of the corrupt, crooked, GOP-E, which fought it harder than the Rats. Since Palin chose not to run, it did not have any real leaders to coalesce around, and was successfully infiltrated by GOP-E hacks and operatives, who then tried to direct its energy to Team Romney. I remember some of FR's resident chest beaters claiming two years ago that the TEA party was self-sustaining and did not need any leaders. Well, that has proven to be wrong-headed, and so here we are, stuck with Obama for four more years (or more), and a fetid, feckless GOP-E now doing his bidding in Congress.

I'm sorry but the TEA Party started out as and has always been a movement not a political party.

If you want to see it, go to a gun show where there are hours long lines of people just to enter the show....even Oragne County California! (as is what happened this very weekend)