Civil War within the Tea Party movement

by Susan Marie Kovalinsky | November 13, 2009 at 05:54 pm

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The Tea Party movement , portrayed in the media as monolithic and unified, has what Mediaite.com calls "a growing civil war between two factions".

Apparently there is a heated and growing internal division between a camp known as the Tea Party Patriots, and an oppositional group known as the Tea Party Express.

The source of this conflict, it would appear, is the "growing involvement of the GOP in the movement" , according to Mediaite. The best source of information is found at TPM Muckraker:

The two main parties here are the Tea Party Patriots, the older group of the two, and the Tea Party Express, which was founded by GOP consultants, including Sal Russo and Joe Wierzbecki. The Patriots accuse the Express of being a GOP front organization; the Express accuses the Patriots of being too disorganized to accomplish anything. Now, tensions seem to be coming to a head as one TPPer who did work with the TPE, Amy Kremer, is being sued by the TPP.

The full story can be found in this post at TPM Muckraker. Just as the GOP has its fractures and fissures - as well as the Democratic party, of course - it appears that the Tea Party movement is unable to resist the internal rivalries and hostilities that flesh is heir to.