Well put:

The movement scored a big win this week in South Carolina, where state Rep. Nikki Haley romped past a four-term congressman to win the GOP nomination for governor. Still, for all the attention the tea party movement has gotten and all the passion of its followers, a rough accounting at the ballot box shows the movement has just about as many losses as victories.

Money has proved an impediment. Organization — or, rather, the lack of it — has become another.

"Just being a tea party candidate or being an outsider is not enough," said Nathan Gonzales, who tracks elections nationwide for the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report. "You have to have money to establish a level of credibility in order to win. You have to have an organization and a focus to have an effect."

Some comments on how the Tea Party is intellectually thin:

"You can measure it by the fact that almost every candidate, Democrat or Republican, sounds like they belong to the tea party movement," said Sal Russo, impresario of the Tea Party Express, one of the most visible of the groups bearing the name. "You don't find anybody out there saying, 'Let's spend a whole bunch of money and we don't have to worry about our deficit and adding to the debt.' "

That in mind, what does the Tea Party really have to differentiate themselves from anybody else on the campaign trail?