In the days of high adventure…..

Teabaggers?  ( HA…I just have to chuckle every time I use the term)…….oops….my bad!…..the Tea Partyers….after a summer and a fall of fist pumping, sign carrying, insult slinging,  the followers of the movement are beginning to eat each (no pun intended)….

The original Tea Party was brought about by the supporters of Ron Paul and In my opinion had legitimate bitches about the government….the size of government,,,taxes….etc…etc….etc…..

Then along came the sleazoids of Freedom Works and similar sneak attacks from the neocon right……the message of the Libertarians were marginalized for the slinging of slogans like “socialism, Nazis, Fascism, racism, and all”…….

Now there is a rift appearing in the Tea Party movement…..Politico’s Kenneth Vogel wrote on the subject:

The grass-roots activists driving the movement have become increasingly divided on such core questions as whether to focus their efforts on shaping policy debates or elections, work on a local, regional, state or national level or closely align themselves with the Republican Party, POLITICO found in interviews with tea party organizers in Washington and across the country.

Many of these differences date to the movement’s beginnings last winter in an outpouring of anger about the huge increases in government spending enacted by President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress. But they were overshadowed by the initial explosion of activism that culminated during the congressional town hall meetings in August.

The movement is composed of hundreds of independent local groups, many of which are incorporated as nonprofits and have localized names referencing the tea parties, 9/12 or We the People.

Many of their members also belong to national conservative groups, including FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity and Grassfire, while the local groups often affiliate formally or informally with loose-knit umbrella organizations, including the Tea Party Patriots and Tea Party Nation.

The organizational chaos — combined with a widening apathy at the edges of the movement — has produced a growing consensus among local, state and national tea party leaders that for the movement to evolve from the loose conglomeration of fired-up activists who mobilized this summer to register their dissatisfaction with Obama and Congress at town hall protests and marches across the country into a sustainable bloc with the power to shape the GOP and swing elections, it will require the emergence of a national leader, group or structure.

In other words the Tea Party movement has been hijacked by the sleezoid right…..de ja vu….the same sleazy idiots hijacked the GOP and now they are trying to be in TOTAL control of the conservative movement…..

As far as it all goes, I am a Lefty, at least that is what I have been called, and I am thrilled if the sleazy right destroys any opposition as they have destroyed the GOP….kudos…keep up the good work….

There is more to the story:  The Politico is reporting on a poll involving the “Tea Party”:

In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided….

Among Republican voters, 39% say they’d vote for the GOP candidate, but 33% favor the Tea Party option.

For this survey, the respondents were asked to assume that the Tea Party movement organized as a new political party.

Will the “Tea Party” truly become a viable party in the 2010 or for that matter 2012 elections?  As an analyst I am hoping that the American people will jump on that bandwagon with both feet….why?….would make writing on politics so much more fun and entertaining….