More people who haven’t the foggiest idea of what tea parties are all about. Of course, that COULD work in our favor, but to my knowledge, tea parties are EVENTS, not organizations. That’s the reason the left hasn’t been able to pin us down and undermine us. It might be one of the reasons they attack Sarah Palin like they do: they perceive her as the “leader” of the tea parties. A leader, she most certainly is, but she is not the “head” of any organization that I know of.
Agreed. That is the danger. We don’t allow even the *REAL* groups actually involved in the tea party movement to dictate terms and enforce themselve on us as our leaders: FreedomWorks, Tea Party Express, Tea Party Patriots. These groups have actually been deeply involved in the tea party movement. Yet they are not our “leaders.”
A group that comes along after the fact and goes on national — liberal — television to attack conservative candidates and pretends to speak for us should not be tolerated.
If we don’t allow even active groups to be our “leaders” we surely should not allow a group that comes along at the last minute and panders to the liberal news media to pretend to speak for us.