[Chainmail]

Wrong. The reason the Tea Party lost wind is because no real leaders emerged and in the end, that lack of focus, that lack of leadership let the Obama/Reid/Pelosi partisans keep winning the real fights against Obamacare, taxes, illegal immigration, and pervert marriage.

Glenn Beck is a truly odd dude: says some good things, followed by really strange things and then hides when real opposition is needed.

Sarah Palin is a nice enough lady with a really grating voice that says some really insightful things mixed with some really weird things/surrounded by an occasionally weird family.

Michele Bachmann burned bright for a while and then faded when the Left started pulling their usual shenanigans.

Rush Limbaugh is a occasionally perceptive guy who is more an entertainer than any kind of leader. He more or less proved that for our generation when he bailed on Vietnam.

It goes on and on. It seems hard to believe, but out of a country with 330 million mostly legal residents, we can't find even one genuine leader who can summarize what's going wrong with this country and its culture and its security and still withstand the firestorm of opposition the Left can pull together.

[LS]

Problem with your theory is that Rush has precisely stated that the success of the Tea Party rested on the fact that it didn't have a leader who would easily be targeted.

But, since I did these, spoke to the groups, attended the conventions, knew the local leaders and you apparently didn't, you obviously know better.