I don't know if it's dead but it sure fizzled under a one-name umbrella. There were way too many factions in the movement. Some belligerent,aggressive and mean-spirited as in the Herman Cain crowd; some persistent and omnipresent as in the Ron Paul army; some obnoxious and accusing as in the Michele Bachman team. Some Tea Party people who supported Rick Perry were beaten to a pulp and became defensive. They believed Tea Party favorite, Sarah Palin would step up to the plate for Perry. Instead, she led the whoppin’ with her crony capitalism statement. Santorum is just now getting his. I don't think Gingrich will survive another month. We have Libertarian talk show hosts (Billy Cunningham, Neil Bortz,etc. and Wayne Allyn Root who can't even field a viable candidate in a Libertarian Party, telling us every day that our Republican Party candidates are unelectable. Who asked the creeps? And then there's Rush. My twenty year love affair with him won't let me speak out against him more than once a week. I've already done it this week. The Tea Party should never have been called the Tea Party. It should have gotten serious instead of allowing itself to become a caricature. Besides, it was infiltrated. It's still infiltrated to make sure it doesn't rise again unified. It won't because most of them hate Romney....not because of his policy but because he's a Mormon. May as well just say it.
The libs are giggling.
The original Tea Partiers showed up at demonstrations... and a lot of them went home afterward, thinking they had done their part. Others stayed long enough to find out what to do next - that would really help.
Many of those are in-the-battle now - where they can do the most good - guarding the gates to politics where they can be most effective, wielding there votes. They get to vote monthly, at their district and county level - keeping the clowns out of power where they can.
Would that FReepers would join the battle where they best could!
“I don’t know if it’s dead but it sure fizzled under a one-name umbrella.”
If you want to see a disorganized mess, drop in at the local Occupy Wallstreet circus. And the last time the fat SEIU pigs tried to crash a Tea Party in my neighborhood, they were pissing in their pants and begging for the cops to rescue them.