Which is why Sarah bailed out at exactly the wrong time. Just when she was needed most, she bailed out on us. I fear the tea party is now no longer reliant, the establishment wins again and the people lose again. Very sad, with Sarah we could have at least driven the dialog. Now there is very little that can be done to change the direction the nation is going. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
The Tea party began while Palin was still in Alaska being Governor.
She is not responsible for it, nor is she responsible for why we have disappeared.
The Tea party was never supposed to have politicians as leaders. That hurts more than it helps.
It was a citizen thing that held all politicians feet to the fire.
Problem we really have is that it has been co-opted by politicians.
Now, eveyone sits back waiting for a leader rather than doing the work that we began with.
Apparently you are not bothering to listen to a word Cain is saying or what he has done
Which is why the Tea Party should never rely upon "leaders". The model should be bottom-up leaderless resistance to the Establishment.
Having leaders that you need to rely upon is a weakness. Leaders get attacked. Leaders get corrupted. Leaders get co-opted. Do not rely upon leaders. Do what you can locally to get real conservatives to run and get elected.