The TPM is different in that it is moving against the people that do the most damage.
Perot was NOT a credible leader of the movement.
The TP, has made the right move in not hitching it’s wagon to any one person. It has accepted the support of ,Palin, DeMint, etc, etc. It is a bottom up movement not oweing alliegence to any one person. That is the differrence, but this is a weakness. Many will attempt to place themselves in a vaulted position. and ofcourse the msm will make an attempt at crowning a TPM standard bearer. The mem hates the fact that they can’t get someone to destroy or make fun of in the coming massacre of THEIR candidates in the coming election.
And anyone that doesn’t follow the “conventional wisdom” of the msm will be alternately ridiculed, researched, ridicled.
O’Donnell’s immediate blowback may have held them off for a while but, make no mistake they will come back at her in a stronger and much more vicious attack.
“As for today’s Tea Party partisans, they don’t trust Washington, which they see as a place of mutual back-scratching, earmark collaborations, power grabs and what seems like unlimited amounts of money sloshing around for buying votes and for the personal aggrandizement of elected officeholders and their minions. The Tea Party aim is to attack that political establishment by capturing the forces of the Republican Party and then directing those forces against the perceived entrenched power of Washington.
Will it succeed? Not clear. But it is clear that this political phenomenon, which burst upon the scene so unexpectedly and has rumbled along with such force the past year and a half, isn’t going away anytime soon. It will continue to wreak havoc in the precincts of establishment politics until this establishment finds a way to siphon off a big portion of Tea Party anger with a brand of politics that absorbs at least some of its sentiment. History suggests there is no other way to tame this beast.”