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"I left my local tea party group because it became a “circle jerk” where everyone sat around and talked about the “bad” stuff in government but really had to plan to get from A to Z…"

"The tea “party” is going to have to be that... A party that identifies, vets and FINANCIALLY supports A (ONE) candidate to beat the incumbent …”

I think we are better off if we leave the ‘Tea Party’ as a set of ideals instead of as an actual political entity or affiliation. If tea party comes to mean ideas and methods of reducing government and strengthening individual freedoms, then it will be a lot harder for it to become the tool of monied interests, nor will it become part of the establishment. Both of which are the antithesis of what tea party is.

When Tea Party (caps intentional) plays at being an actual political entity it is subject to the same rules and influences as the rest of establishment politics, and subject as well to insurgencies.

[houeto]

I think we are better off if we leave the ‘Tea Party’ as a set of ideals instead of as an actual political entity or affiliation.

I could not agree more.

[1Old Pro]

I think we are better off if we leave the ‘Tea Party’ as a set of ideals instead of as an actual political entity or affiliation.

That's what it "is" in my opinion. You really don't join a party, it's a grassroots group who share small government and more freedom "ideals" basically.