Or at least the Tea Party Caucus.
From the Richmond Times Dispatch: Cantor won’t join Tea Party, says ‘better left with the people”
“Part of what is so inspiring about the tea-party movement is that it is not structured like a political party and, instead, is a truly organic, grass-roots effort,” Cantor said. “The movement was born outside of Washington and includes people of all political stripes — Republicans, independents and Democrats — who have come together out of frustration with their government in an effort to force it to change.”
The questions are obvious. Is Cantor revealing that he’s not that conservative after all? Is he afraid that the fringe elements of the Tea Party will damage his future political ambitions?
Maybe.
It’s important to point out that, with regard to the Tea Party, a group of Congressmen is not the Tea Party. The Tea Party at it’s best is an explosion of grass roots activism. It’s not a Congressional Caucus.
True, there are a few Congressmen, Michelle Bachmann among them, that Tea Partiers call their own. But the many in the rank and file is ready to vote them all out.