From Angry White Boy in Fort Wayne- Is the Tea Party Dead?
"I’ve watched and participated in some debates online with two Tea Party movements here in Indiana. iCaucus, and the Indy Defender’s of Liberty. They’re a disjointed bunch that collectively only boast about 1300 members. They piss and moan about some fairly inane topics, have no focus, suffer from a variety of in-fighting, and at times, seem like a bunch of schoolyard bullies.
I dropped out of the groups last week. Erick at Red State pretty well sums it up."
We have reached a point where the tea party movement will either go forward in greater organization or it will not. As one of those people who turned out for the initial protests, the later protests, flew around the country speaking at rallies, etc. I would like to say goodbye.
I hope the activists on the street will leave with me. It is not that we are leaving the tea party movement, but rather we choose to assert ourselves in the movements of America and focus not as tea party activists, but as concerned Americans troubled by the direction of the country. As the organizations of the tea party movement evolve into a federation, we activists choose to evolve into activists in the political process in our municipalities, counties, states, and nation.
So I will not be turning out to protest this tax day. Instead, I am going to put down my protest sign and pick up my campaign sign for Marco Rubio, Marlin Stutzman, Ken Buck, Pat Toomey, Mike Lee, Chuck DeVore, Pam Gorman, Tom Graves, Sean Duffy, Angela Hicks, Nikki Haley, Karen Handel, and others. I’m going to focus not on protesting, but on actually changing the country through finding, fielding, supporting, funding, volunteering for, and praying for good men and women who share my very American concerns. I am going to focus on my local government, making sure my local leaders live up to my expectations; likewise at the same at the state and federal level too.
