Does anybody else roll their eyes when they see tea party capitalized, as if its a real, trademarked organization with leaders, etc.? I swear the rats are hard at work through their newsrooms (and with a lot of help from clownish political wannabes and libertarian malcontents) to turn the effective tea party protests of 2009 into The Tea Party, until it becomes the same kind of marginal laughingstock the Move On campaign evolved into ten years ago.
Tea partiers are individuals from across the nation who briefly organized a few times in order to shout as one at a corrupt and disgraceful government agenda of communist health care and the drunken waste of tax dollars. The tea partiers are still out there and they will vote because they are inspired to do so, but I doubt 95% of them give a rats behind about being called tea partiers. I know I sure dont.
This effort by some people to turn the tea partiers (arent we all tea partiers here?) into a real live, ongoing organization with a convention and leaders and all the rest of the bells and whistles is stupid. Its old already - - time to put the phrase tea partiers to rest. The battle has been joined and tea partiers will continue to shout (and vote!) for a return to sanity, and they need no label to do so.
Yah, I saw a “conservative” on Larry King, the guy with the big ears that was in Ferris Buellers Day Off, who said he was against the “Tea Party” because it would split the Republican vote, as if it were a real party.