I hope you’re right, but where I live the Tea Party has degenerated into a small group of fruitcakes, anarchists, and posse comitatus types who are incapable of influencing anything. They make Ron Paul look positively sane.
This is certainly not the result of any improvement in the economy or any of the policies put forth by Dingy Harry, but just based on the flaccidity of response to the Presidential polls, it seems that the fire has gone out.
The main power of what Media has termed “Tea Party” has never been in the publicized ramblings and machinations of the myriad “Tea-Party Pseudonymed” wannabes that get the coverage.
The real power is in the disgust, dissatisfaction and tangible enmity of loosely affiliated Tea Party sympathizers - real normal Americans fed up with the Halfrican Muslim and his Democrat Party. These people are still here, surviving and waiting.
They intend to vote come November, and it doesn’t matter one tinker’s damn what any quasi-official “Tea Party” claimant organization says - they will not count in the end.