New York Times report about the South Carolina Tea Parties. Basically they're extremely fractured and supporting several different candidates, so they won't present any obstacle to Romney winning the primary. The Tea Party was always going to become a non-entity in the Republican Party. They provided motivated feet on the ground in 2010 and hopefully they'll do it when Romney is nominated, but they are not going to choose the Republican candidate. I keep pounding on this. Romney is going to win the Republican nomination. Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Wrap those up and the rest should fall into place. The money flows to the front runners. Sure a couple rich guys can donate money to a single Super PAC and keep someone like Gingrich going for a while, but the money from the Republican elite will flow to the front runner. It just happens that the front runner is their boy.
This should serve as a wake up call to the Tea Party people, but I don't know that they'll get the point. My expectation is that the Tea Party will double down on ideological purity and possibly sulk. What they should be doing is trying to figure out how to replace the elites in the Republican Party. A hard job for a bunch aging baby boomers with no real money.
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