The Legend of the Baggers' Advance

The Garnet Spy's proprietor is telling The State the Baggers should be a non-movement movement, picking candidates to support by not picking them:

Speight said tea party groups should require candidates to come to them, both physically and ideologically. Picking candidates, Speight said, usually creates factions.

"It's detrimental to their ideals," he said. "The movement should stay a movement and not get too organized and certainly not endorse candidates."

Here's an example of their brainwaves:

The Charleston tea party group endorsed Republican state Sen. Larry Grooms for governor. Grooms subsequently dropped out of the GOP primary.

What we know from their Nashville conclave is they cheer for racism, nativism, homophobia, and a woman so dumb she has to have things written on her hand. When she's got a written speech in front of her. That's she's reading.

And Senator Jim De Mint says these are people the GOP needs.