Consider that last year and the year before in addition to much better attendance at all those rallies in the cities, all of those rallies in the cities in 2009 and 2010 were also competing for attendes with big tea party rallies in washington d.c. remember, in 2009 tens of thousands of tea partiers turned up in washington on tax day. in 2010 same deal. thousands and thousands of people descended on d.c. in addition to all the rallies in the state capitals. this year the last few national calls for tea partyers are getting very veshgs small crowds. they did not even try calling for a national tax day tea party rally in d.c. this year. there just wasn t one. they didn t do it. they had very small turnout in all of the cities in the state capitals where they had rallies. they didn t have one in d.c. competing with them, and still, it just kind of fizzled. i think the writing has been on the wall for a while now about the strength of the tea party.
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Welcome back. we saw thousands of tea partiers rally in washington on tax day last week and a recent political poll shows the movement is split between social conservatives, who look to sarah palin as their leader and libertarians who look to congressman ron paul. it s an honor to have you, sir, you re a leader of a movement. sometimes you remind me of my hero growing up, who was in fact barry goldwater. and then i grew up and i began to see the complications of life like people get old and they don t have a lot of ability to save money, so they need social security and we need a civil rights bill, even if it was done under the interstate commerce clause. but the fact is it isn t always as clear and simple as libertarian philosophy would argue. you have stuck to your position. you still believe way less government is way better. z but aren t we on the verge of proving our point? social security sounds good, but it s broke. and even if they take care of