[Bob J]

I hope you’re right. But it would have a much better start if the message was clearer.

[GOPJ]

That's my point. Real movements create messages over time. Fake one have a "statement" put together by a committee in advance. It's the reason ACORN has to pay their "activists" and tea party people come together naturally. Sometime in the future people will step in front of the parade and say they were leading all along. It won't be true. But the Santelli's of the world felt deep rage - and it touched things deeply in others. A movement was born.

Jesse Jackson tried to ride a natural movement after it's time had past. NOW did the same with the women's movement. The Obama so-called Alinsky radicals have done the same. And they wonder why there aren't large crowds behind them.

It's easy - the real movement - the one that touched people - moved on... and those who wanted to cling to the power of the movement, stayed. They became a corruption.

The tea party movement appears real. We'll have to see where it goes.