While Jessica Clackum Herman’s efforts to define the Tea Party in its pure form are laudable, and she certainly brings some bacon to breakfast, she failed to mention some key traits of the Tea Party.
The reason the Tea Party will never reach its full potential is because it has figureheads like Sarah Palin, nationally, and Don Marsh, locally.
When the people spearheading the Tea Party believe Earth is 6,000 years old, it loses all of its credibility. America cannot afford to have people like this running the country.
It is absolutely ridiculous to lend any credit to these people who have opinions on how to run government when they have very little or no relevant experience and reject hard scientific data. The major flaw in the Tea Party is that its chief representatives are way too ideological and not very pragmatic.
Too many people consider the Tea Party to be on the fringe. Additionally, many moderate Tea Partiers who are quick to frown upon any sort of government spending, just as quickly smile for the cameras as they cut the ribbon on a local project funded by that same government spending.
Just remember the Boston Tea Party was about taxation without representation. We have representation today, and I want our representatives to focus on their jobs and on the people they represent, not on some obscure set of rules that only they play by.
