The "Tea Party" is/was the attempt to change the Republican Party in this Generation. Problem was, it went from a group of people wanting fundamental change in Government fiscal responsibility to people reaching into the far right of the Republican party and demanding Social issue change that wopposes most of the liberal idealogies . . From that we got about 30 different organizations and minor lobbying groups, which splintered the original initiatives and goals . .
Add to that, the "Republican Establishment" doesn't want to give any real quarter to the Tea Party backers, even though it got 86 new Republican members of the House of Representatives . . It still wants some guy that appeals to "Everybody" starting with the Moderates. The overall belief is that a "Tea party" candidate won't get the independent vote . . You'd think they would have figured out that's not the idea right after McCain's "non-election" . .
And . . The only way you're going to change any of this is to start paying a lot of attention to your local party and make changes from within . . John Boehner isn't worth a dime more than Nancy Pelosi, simply because both have gotten rich and powerful off your tax dollar, and anyone who stays in Congress longer than two terms is no longer YOUR REPRESENTATIVE but a PARASITE getting rich off your tax money and liberty . .
Protect yourselves and your country, get rid of all senior Congresspeople and their staffmembers . . If you have a trustworthy Congress, you won't have to worry about what kind of president you have, or what he can do to you . .