Cool. Glad it has a presence. I'm sure it will continue to evolve. I continue to remain cautious on 'organized' tea party groups, because I love the spontaneous grass roots beginnings. Lets face it...I'm terrified that some political opportunist will high jack it and then sink it through a scandal or two. I've already met one or two people embedded in politics that were 'suddenly' tea party leaders and I knew they came in from left field looking for an opportunity for relevance. I don't mean to tear down since I know that those are truths in any political environment, but I get real tired of lousy leaders trying to ruin a good thing. Just keeping the fire going in the once 'silent majority' is really important to beat back the socialist barbarians back from our gates.
I remember a Lincoln day dinner I attended as a kid. Half the table had a very nice older couple enjoying the evening. The other half had one lady in particular I remember. She was ALL business. She ate and muttered to someone next to her about how she got appointed to this committee or that committee. She struck me as a career politician that wasn't interested in conservative philosophy or protecting peoples rights in the slightest. Took me a couple of years for me to bounce back and put it in perspective. I started the pledge of allegiance for the audience that night. Its easy for a bad leader to sour people on the party as a whole which is why its important to take the utmost care in selecting our leaders. I'd be way looser on my demand for conservative obedience in politics if I knew that person had integrity, however that isn't often possible. Anyway, the media makes it hard to trust politicians at large even if there is a decent one here or there. End of point.
