unfortunately I completely agree with you here ... allowing Sarah Palin to become the face of the tea party (at least in my opinion) was the beginning of the end of it being a noble movement. They have turned into a group of strictly far right wing activists and lobbyists who care more about political agenda's than the state of our union.

We need serious term limit and campaign donation reform to be able to bring this country back to any visions of grandeur and unfortuantely without someone with Bill Gates or Warren Buffet money running the type of people who can bring that type of change would never be elected.

Our country is stuck in a two party system in which a third party is either absorbed by one of the political machines or left to rot all on its own.