State Tea-Party Groups Splinter as Vote Nears

[harvey007]

Source: Wall Street Journal

EVERGREEN, Colo.—Lori Christenson has ignored her friends, her garden and her golden retriever to throw herself into advancing the tea-party movement in Colorado.

Election Day should be a chance for her to put the exclamation point on all that work: Tea-party favorites stand as the state's Republican nominees for Senate and governor. The ballot also includes three rein-in-government measures that reflect the movement's core values.

Yet instead of uniting in a final push toward election day, the movement in Colorado has begun to splinter, with rival camps accusing one another of betrayal, naiveté and failure of courage.

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303467004575574342682042712.html

[Drale]

1. I knew this would happen

plus any tea bagger backed candidate who gets elected is going to be instantly corrupted into a regular republican and they will not do anything they are promising.

[txaslftist]

7. They were already taken over.

When Palin signed on as a "Tea Party" person I knew the movement had been hijacked.

[guruoo]

2. 'back the restrictions on government...aren't sure they are willing to live with them in practice'

Indeed, you should take care in what you wish for, teabaggers.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Cage fight!

With razorblades!

:bounce:

[alittlelark]

4. It should be a 'reality show'.

[Qutzupalotl]

5. Could've happened to a nicer bunch of folks.

[emulatorloo]

6. Boo Hoo