Tea party movement

What do you think of its prospect in being a serious contender to the republican party?

What everyone seems to not realize is that the tea party is not a political party of any sort, just people from both sides of the aisle unhappy with the status quo. Problem is that's where they share the same view stops. After that, you've got many of them still in support of the Patriot Act, and don't want to change foreign policy either. The whole thing really lacks cohesion in general. If anything, it's just another reminder that the American Empire is in a irreversible decline.

But don't expect any major change from the tea party movement, all they're going to do is replace Democratic incumbents with Republican ones (e.g. Scott Brown) at the very least. There's actually a largely separate, more quieter liberty movement going on, and that will be the movement that makes some real change in Washington, but in all honesty, it's already too late. I see the United States dissolving like the Soviet Union did, because of economic issues, and of course spreading out its military too thinly. Sounds familiar? Yes, it's a repeat of Rome, and the British Empire.