The difference between now and back when Perot ran is that the Tea Party is the popular party and the republican party is much less influential. So if you're suggesting that the republicans and the tea partiers should vote for the same candidates then it's the republicans that need to get in line with the tea party since they're the minority.
The difference between now and back when Perot ran is that the Tea Party is the popular party and the republican party is much less influential. So if you're suggesting that the republicans and the tea partiers should vote for the same candidates then it's the republicans that need to get in line with the tea party since they're the minority.
Being "organized" and structured and having leaders and being able to get masses of your people to all move in one direction at one time for one type of thing -- that's what is going to win elections....
Being chaotic and disorganized and not cohesive, but just dissatisfied and angry and "not going to take it anymore" will not win elections to move a large group of people in a particular direction that they want to go in and succesfully carry them along like that for an extended period of time.
No matter what it takes -- if conservatives want to win elections and have control over this country -- then they are going to have to be cohensive, organized, have leaders that can carry a large group of people through on political goals and keep control of the mechanisms of government and do it long-term.
Until it comes together like that with solid infrastructure and can hold together and get political goals carried out over the long term and control the different facets of the government (from whatever organization this turns out to be) -- whether it's local, state or national -- it's going nowhere... and only the Democrats will benefit.
We'll see how it pans out, in terms of actual political accomplishments and in terms of the control of the infrastructure of out government in this country. That remains to be seen...