Tea Party has the name it has because it is fundamentally an anti-tax movement.
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You are wrong.
I am 100% correct. I was there when the Tea Party was born. I saw the name get misappropriated by the socon/neocon crowd in their vain attempt to believe that they could harness the awesome power of this new movement.
They might be able to get the name, but they’ll never get the power it represents, because it is decentralized, leaderless, and organic in its essence. It comes from the hearts of tens of millions of individuals who are simply fed up with the way things have been going under BOTH parties. A lot of those people aren’t even Republicans, a huge part of the Tea Party is people who were generally non-political and independent but have simply been squeezed to the point where they have had enough. These are largely the people who have been left behind by the political system, not the people who have been actively engaged in it all these years.
The people who gave life and momentum to the Tea Party will have nothing to do with the new priorities you would impose on it. You are headed directly towards provoking a third-party, genuine Tea Party candidate.