The Houston Chronicle Doubts the Tea Party Influence

You do have to read the whole thing where they admit it did have some influence.  We are going to have to keep up the pressure to make our wishes known. Here's the story:

Lackluster showing puts damper on Tea Party
Faithful are left to wonder if Perry is worth their vote
By JOE HOLLEY and R.G. RATCLIFFE

Helena Brown of Houston is not pleased.

A lifelong Republican — and a precinct chair at that — she also identifies with the Tea Party movement and was a Debra Medina supporter. Now she and her fellow Tea Party Republicans must decide whether GOP candidate Gov. Rick Perry is worthy of their support or perhaps look for an independent write-in candidate. (Brown says she thinks actor Chuck Norris might be interested.)

Although Medina's 18 percent of the Republican primary vote was much more than most observers expected her to get when the campaign season got under way, the champion of the Tea Party/libertarian insurgents failed to force a runoff. Medina also failed to buoy up other Tea Party candidates across the state.

Anti-establishment voters simply didn't materialize at the polls on Tuesday, and most Republican incumbents cruised to victory over their Tea Party challengers.

They go on to talk about Ron Paul and actually say this

“After all the talk from the 9-12 groups and the Tea Party, it's surprising,” said John Gay, one of three Republicans who unsuccessfully challenged Rep. Ron Paul, R-Surfside. “From what I was hearing, there were a lot of people saying they were going to vote for someone besides the incumbent this time.”

They didn't. Paul, considered by some to be the founder of the Tea Party movement, got 80.8 percent of the vote against insurgents on his right flank. U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Woodlands, got 79.2 percent of the vote against three Tea Party challengers who had maintained that the incumbent was too liberal.

It really makes me wonder why they think Ron Paul was a founder of the Tea Party's
Maybe they should talk to some others.

After this they go on to say this:

Work to do at grass root
There were some local Tea Party successes.

Read it all, see if it makes sense to you.