Well, they’re acting like an organized party, even if they’re not doing a very good job of it ... :-) ...
This is from the so-called Tea Party candidate - Brogdon ...
OK Tea Party Groups Throw T.W. Shannon Overboard
Apparently sick and tired of bring told who they should support in the race for U.S. Senate, 33 leaders of Oklahoma Tea Party and conservative activist organizations have made it clear – they do not support T.W. Shannon.
In “an open letter to outside groups and individuals supporting T.W. Shannon,” the grassroots conservative leaders expressed dismay that national political figures like Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and organizations like Senate Conservatives Fund, have endorsed Shannon’s bid for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Tom Coburn.
Shannon has repeatedly pointed to these endorsements as proof that he has the support of movement conservatives in Oklahoma. However, the Tea Party leaders who signed the letter want to “set the record straight that we do not endorse or support T.W. Shannon for U.S. Senate.”
The letter asserts that prior to his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, “T.W. Shannon had never stepped foot inside a Tea Party, Liberty, 9/12 Project meeting, rally or event.” The letter also refers to Shannon as “a poser.”
The letter decries Shannon’s record in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. It states,“According to the Oklahoma Constitution newspaper’s Conservative Index, T.W. Shannon has a lifetime (7 years) average score of 74%”. Shannon’s competition in the Oklahoma U.S. Senate race, former state Senator Randy Brogdon scored a 93% on the same index during his 8 years in the Oklahoma Senate.
If Shannon’s endorsers believe he will vote more like a conservative if elected, the letter warns them, “Your endorsement will not make T.W. Shannon become conservative,” but it “will make our job a little more difficult.”
The entire text of the letter can be found here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/oklahoma-tea-parties-and-grassroots-conservatives
You are proving my point, national TEA Party gurus don't necessarily know what's really going on in a state.
They may meet up with a candidate, someone that another conservative talker, writer or pundit likes, sign on to that a person and attempt to move conservatives in a state toward a particular candidate, when others in the state know that candidate much better and do not agree with outsiders, even conservatives that we all like and respect.
We do not want to spit our votes between a conservative candidate that we like and someone that conservatives outside our state seem to think would be good for us.
I'm glad to hear your voice of sanity with all that is going on around the country right now.
There are many good candidates and some not so good and not so conservative but who sound good to others who don't know him/her.
Politics is a game but it "ain't bean bag" as one conservative once said.