Why not? The Coffee party knock off was so faaaaabulously successful.
The left is completely clueless.
The comments after this story about tea partiers and school boards shows that the left doesn’t even know who they’re fighting. They’re just rabidly flailing at all things conservative.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/11/tea_party_activists_turning_at.html