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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.

The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

The party lines don't change, that's what makes them a party and you'd be a fool to think that just because there's a black man in there it's not gonna change the real foundation of the system. Especially when you look at his largest contributor to his campaign, AIG, one of the culprits in the economic meltdown itself.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They're up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!