I don’t know what the tea parties are like in Ct, and it seems that you do. Based on what I’ve heard and my analysis, the Maine GOP Platform is said to be a “tea party” platform, and it appears to me a lot like something written in part by Ron Paul supporters. Much of what Ron Paul favors is favored by most here. Some of what Ron Paul favors is considered kooky or unpatriotic by most here. The parts of the Maine GOP Platform that appear to have been written by Ron Paul supporters are the parts that most here at FR do support. So, because the most disliked parts of Ron Pauls message don’t make the platform, and the most liked parts do make the platform, the ideas and the energy of the Ron Paul people in the tea party are a positive.
It isn’t clear that the tea partiers had much influence at all at the state R convention in CT, the way they did in ME.
True dat.
The tea party is not republican, nor does it represent socially conservative individuals. It’s primary focus is to reduce the size of government and to put pressure on a central bank that is making the dollar look more and more like monopoly money. If ya’ll don’t like it, make up a new grassroots party of your own! :-)