No, the tea party represents the radical religious right. that is a faction that is not only fading, but people are also getting tired of. From personhood amendments, to restriction of marriage rights, to the removal of protections from discrimination, and even right down to being some of the most ignorant fools like bachman and Alan West the tea party is really nothing more than ignorant loud mouth tyrants who want us all to be forced to pray to jesus every day. This is why the tea party only cames in in religious areas, and why they will never be strong. The GOP seems to be pulling away from them. The tea party most certainly is not for the working class as they overwhelmingly vote to remove protections for workers and to allow the rich to take advantage of everyone. it is not terribly surprising considering they were hijacked by people like Rove to be the loud obnoxious arm of the right wing.
Now part of the GOP is realizing if you accept the american taliban into your ranks you have to deal with every crazy thing they say, and you have to continually go more and more right until you are pretty much asking for papers and running anyone who isn't white and christian out of town. Have you ever seen the tea party gatherings? The last time i saw that many pasty white people crammed into one area was a klan video.
Sorry guys, but the tea party is over. They can keep having their meetings and donating to their PACs, but it is all just a method to strip them of their money and power and place it into the hands of the GOP who will be catering to them less and less. But if i am wrong then let us make a law opening up the books of PACs and seeing where their donation monies end up going, and who owns them. personally i would love to see how the tea party ends up ruling. the comedy would be amazing if we could give them some unowned patch of land to destroy. Without any minorities or dems to blame they would turn on themselves. It is part of the blame culture. there will always be problems, but people in the tea party do not want to own up to them so they blame everyone else. Could you imagine screwed up tea party land without an Obama to hate? They would be shooting each other in the streets and starting up purity groups to war with each other. It would look a lot like the middle east.
this is why no one wants the tea party but the tea party. Even the republicans grow tired of their crap.