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Targetpractice6/12/2010 10:21:02 am PDT

re: #59 Nimed

‘Tea party’ candidates hurt by lack of organization in movement

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.

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. 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.(…)

Ladies and gents, the beginning of the end. Teabaggers are finally realizing that they don’t have anything resembling a coherent common cause.

I like to think the Tea Party movement started out as people really, honestly angry with the government and fed up with the “answers” they were being given. But along the way, like many such fledgling movements, they got co-opted by people with their own goals and ambitions and turned into yet another “big tent” under which those who were lacking a pulpit and an audience gathered to fleece the ignorant and the naive. It happened with the “anti-war movement,” with everybody from MoveOn to ANSWER using Bush-hatred to fleece the useful idiots of their money and gain temporary prominence.