my connection with the tea party

[kandrathe]

This tea party, so I read, is mainly backed by a group of billionaires..... they just try to have the ignorant masses work for them for a while and when the economy goes really down the drain the probably emigrate to the Caribbean or so.

I think that is just a tactic oppositions use to try to marginalize a group. By pinning an ideological movement on "a hateful wierdo with money", who finances some PAC or SuperPac, and a bunch of 527 organizations who pump money into attack ads. Whether it's George Soros, or David Koch, they are using their "influence" to affect the outcome. They might not have the compelling voice personally, but they are willing to fund the ones who can be compelling.

All progressives are not held sway by Soros. All Tea partiers are not driven by the Kochs, or Dick Armey. And, libertarians are not all that organized and seem to be lacking in a "sugar daddy", although David Koch is a very wealthy libertarian.

Yeah, the Republican, Tea Party, Libertarian mish-mash needs to be sorted out someday. Some Tea Partiers are Republicans, Democrats and some are Libertarians. But, not all Republicans, or Libertarians are Tea Partiers. But, then again, not all Democrats are progressives, but it's a hefty majority these days. Many of the conservative democrats migrated to Republicans during the heady "big tent" of 1999 and the growth of the big government "compassionate conservatives".

The trouble with a Tea Party, or a Libertarian party is that it tends to create more of a 40% Democrat, 30% Republican, 30% other split. So, unless the third party movement can field a very popular candidate, they will end up with a Democrat which is more distasteful than the Republican.