On the other hand, it’s a little hard for the TPX to pick and choose candidates who can speak on their tour when their end destination is a GOP primary debate that they’re cohosting.
I suspect a number of tea party leaders have sold out. (Starting with the good ol’ Texas boy Dick Armey with his Freedomworks organization.)
Neither Perry nor Romney are legitimate ‘tea partiers’ IMO.
The whole point of the tea party was that we were sick and tired of what the GOP was doing so we wanted to get straight back to first principles. Instead it has turned into another GOP organization.