REPUBLICAN CONVENTION may not mean 'tea' time.


The media (and liberals generally) are missing the point. Unlike Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party is not just a bunch of people dressing in funny clothes protesting in the streets in cities across America, it is a serious, long-term, low profile effort to change the direction of America.

“The purpose is to legally nominate their candidate,” Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, told FoxNews.com. “Tea Party Patriots are far more concerned about what laws are going to be passed than what they’re doing at a party in Florida and Charlotte.”

“As long as our values are represented, we are making an effect. What we will be happy about is when bills are signed into law that repeal the president’s health care law, and when the budget is balanced and when we’re on the road to recovery,” she said. “The convention is just a very small step along the way.”

Exactly.