'Tea party' struggles for lack of a leader

Who leader? What leader? which leader?


The polls hadn't even closed Tuesday when "tea party" activists in Nevada started sniping at one another over whether Sharron Angle, the soon-to-be Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, was the best candidate to bring down Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid.

In Virginia, tea partiers vented on blogs and to reporters about the movement's inability to coalesce around a single, strong candidate in two House races, resulting in the nomination of establishment candidates instead.

The national tea party movement has never had a central organization or single leader; in fact, it has boasted the opposite.

But Tuesday's primary results provided fresh evidence of the amorphous network's struggle to convert activist anger and energy into winning results.

'Breaks my heart'
Frustrated and lacking agreement on what to do next, self-identified tea party leaders say the movement may be in danger of breaking apart before it ever really comes together.

"No one owns the tea party brand, and that's kind of the problem," said Brendan Steinhauser, grass-roots director for FreedomWorks, which organizes tea party groups. "In Virginia — it breaks my heart. You've got six self-appointed tea party candidates and one establishment guy. You're not going to beat the establishment guy in that situation."

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i *really* wish more media honks would question them on it...

We spit on people we don't like..we suck up fauxsnooze like it was bacon grease.

How do they expect to become a political party when they're all so mad at all things political?

Besides people with their hair on fire all the time don't get things done.

Ignorant ranting and conspiracies don't equal a movement. They overestimate their support and lots of the loudest protesters aren't going to go out to vote, they're talk and no action.

Lou's a man of action.

I will take them all to a nice place with a steep cliff and tell them to jump. Problem solved.

:rofl: