is a much more grassroots, decentralized group, and different parts of the tea party are going to find different paths forward now. jenna: it s interesting you mention that, it s good you bring that up. i even refer to the tea party, really, in the wrong way. it s not a political party, it s a movement of people, and the question is what s the next evolution for that movement. do you think it becomes a third party eventually? is that something you see on the horizon, or do you see it kind of being absorbed into the gop here? well, i think, jenna, the short history of the tea parties, and we re talking about, basically, less than two years now that they have been part of american politics, shows that they succeed when they re in coalition with other kinds of conservative groups and not when they try to strike out on their own as a splinter force. i think you saw i that, for example, in the republican primaries where when they allied with pro-lifers and social conservatives, they were