>> reporter: come on. how can that be? >> you do not understand what constitutional government is all about. >> reporter: and later this year, more tea partyiers on the liberty ship and the newmax cruise. but the founders of one tea party group wonder whether this is the best use of the movement's time in an election year. would you go on a tea party cruise? >> you know, right now we are working about 20 hours a day. i can't even imagine any cruise much less a tea party cruise. >> no, we have no time for cruising. >> reporter: but other tea parties say that hitting the high seas is is a new way of cruising for cause. jim acosta, cnn, st. thomas in the u.s. virgin islands. >> nice weather there and very different weather in this part of the country. lots of snow and possibly a blizzard conditions bearing down on the mid-atlantic and the northeast. right now, live pictures over at