By Dennis Myers

It’s been a year since the tea party movement developed and it’s still not easy to get a handle on it.

From the start, tea party leaders resisted getting too organized or centralized and they were especially insistent that no one was a spokesperson for the movement.

They failed to anticipate that this left a vacuum that others would be all too happy to fill.

Groups and leaders surfaced saying, “We are the tea party,” and there was no one to say to them nay.

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