[Driftwood1]

I hope like hell you are wrong!!

I am so disappointed in the GOP and the Tea Party as well. Now the Tea Party is asking for Cain to drop out I hear? What the hell is wrong with these people?

[MNJohnnie]

No that was a con man who has hijacked the tea party label to pimp his social network cash cow.

[tobyhill]

I hope I'm wrong too but as usual the MSM has managed to skew facts about where Conservatives stand and the “Middle of America” has fallen for it once again.

The only good thing about Romney is he maybe the only one now to knock Obama out but the bad part of it is that we get Obama Lite.

[skinkinthegrass]

I hope like hell you are wrong!!....
Now the Tea Party is asking for Cain to drop out I hear?

likewise......Who? Is saying that?...
(CR@P!)

[Designer]

"I am so disappointed in the GOP and the Tea Party as well."

1. GOP establishment is primarily looking out for themselves.

2. Tea Party has many factions, some of which are also in it for themselves.

3. Cain is not as conservative as he could (or should) be.

[org.whodat]

T party is not asking Cain to drop out, one half ass self elected person is.

[Smokin' Joe]

I am so disappointed in the GOP and the Tea Party as well. Now the Tea Party is asking for Cain to drop out I hear? What the hell is wrong with these people?

Let me explain. There is no "Tea Party" as a formal political entity, there is the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) party movement, a truly grassroots affiliation of people on an ad hoc and often local basis to confront issues and elections from the local level up.

There are smaller organizations which use the Tea Party name, but they are not the "TEA Party movement", only smaller factions thereof at best.

No one person has ever been chosen by the movement as a 'national leader', although there are a few who figure prominently in the movement on a large scale.

There are several large organizations claiming to be a "Tea Party" in the media, with definite top-down structures, and even in the best of cases, these may be regarded with suspicion if they claim to speak for the entire movement on any but the most fundamental issues. As such, there is no single leader or spokesperson for the movement, but there are popular people who address the issues and embrace policy and moral stances which are in agreement with many of the individual participants in the movement.

Again, while many might claim to be the leader of some specific faction, there is no single leader, the movement is not a top-down phenomenon.

When one person claims to speak for the "Tea Party", they may speak for an organization they have created which people have joined, but no one person speaks for (or is leader of) the entire movement, especially a national Tea Party. Be somewhat suspicious of anyone who claims to, especially the more obscure ones.