I have given my reasons why I think it is a bad idea, but permit me to add one more, and one which will be in the back of minds everywhere. At present, money collected, donated, or raised is used in everything from local events to ones nationwide in scope. Start a 'National TEA Party' and the donation letters will start rolling in.
It will become a business, not a vocation.
AFAIK, there is no "the TEA Party", just an assemblage of local groups which cooperate of their own volition. This is a fiction the press have been pushing in order to smear us all with one stroke, and to claim we are all just a big-donor effort to hijack politics, one which plays well with the GOP as well as the Socialists, because it plays down the fact that vast numbers of people are getting involved.
Consolidate it under some single national group, and you open the whole movement to accusations of astroturfing.
I know what the TEA Party is...and I know what it is not.
They are proposing to be a coalition of local TEA Parties...not a party or a national organization. Do you resent donations to the NRA or the former Christian Coalition? They use purity of their interests as their barometer to make their donations...no matter the party.
Frankly, I’m glad the RNC is having difficulty with them...and they are having huge difficulties. The RNC isn’t getting the donations that they are used to getting. Something needs to shake them up, and bring them back on the Reagan path.
The only fiction I’ve seen the press report is that the TEA Party members are all racist redneck Nazis.