The Establishment Just Doesn't Get the Tea Party

I meant to comment on this article that I found over at FoxNews.com earlier.   In this article, Fox News’ James Rosen poses the question: “Is the Tea Party the new ‘Establishment’?”   That question assumes that it’s about who has the organization and the money to win elections.

That’s a false understanding of what both the Tea Party and the Establishment are.  The Tea Party is about principles and ideas, and electing leaders who will stand up for those principles and ideas.  The Establishment is a political machine that is concerned with one thing: how to keep and maintain their power.

Yes it is true that there have been people and organizations that have money backing the Tea Party candidates recently.  However, if you compare the Tea Party candidates’ money to the Establishment candidates’ money, the Establishment still has the edge over the Tea Party.

That gets me back to my point.  It is not about who has the money and the organization.  It is becoming increasingly clear that the Tea Party is making elections be about what they should have been about from the beginning: Principles and Ideas.

The antithesis of the Tea Party is all things Establishment.  The day the “Tea Party” becomes “Establishment” is the day it will cease to be the Tea Party.  What has made the Tea Party so successful is not the money behind organizations like FreedomWorks or people like the Koch Brothers, but the fact that the Tea Party is a people-based movement.  The Tea Party has a lot of people who are passionate about their principles and ideas that they have shown they can turn out the vote.

The Tea Party is not some political machine that is trying to gain power.  It is a movement of people that believe in the Founding Principles of this great country known as the United States of America.