The Tea Baggers have taught me many lessons, so I thought I would share them with the Daily Kos community:
1.) If you would like to start a truly grassroots movement, get a major news network to cover your actions 24/7.
2.) Have this news organization place propaganda in newspapers, like the Washington post, to give your organization priceless amounts of advertising.
3.) Have this news organization not only cover your group, place propaganda-like ads for you, but also, consistently complain that other news organizations are not covering you enough - forcing them to cover you even more, thus having a multiplying affect the coverage of the group.
4.) If you are a liberal protests group, you need to have millions of people out in the streets to even get a little bit of coverage. However, as a conservative protest group, a few thousand people will garner an enormous amount of coverage.
5.) To be more specific about lesson # 4, if you are a liberal protest group, then 400,000 protesters in one day will get you approximately 87 words of news coverage. If you are conservative protesters, then tens of thousands of protesters will get you non-stop coverage.
6.) When creating your group, find a wealthy family that makes their money off the pain of others and get them to finance multiple forms of astroturfing.
7.) Have people at your rallies say and do crazy things: like wanting to hang a US senator, making fun of a disabled person, claim that digital tv converters are brainwashing devices and that we should burn books, have ex-SNL pseudo-stars call the President a communist, have ex-half term governors make wild claims about death panels, have a plethora people say that Veterans are going to get "death books" encouraging them to "hurry up and die", and, well this could go on for hours, but you get the point.
8.) One obvious lesson is to choose a name for your group that has a another meaning that is sexual in nature and that your group tends to oppose (at least publicly), and then when people call you on it - call them immature. We could call our group "Snorklers for a new America" or "Fisting for Freedom", suggestions?
9.) The biggest lesson learned from tea-baggery: If we want national attention, we need to say and do as many crazy things as possible. Just spout out every crazy accusation or name that we can think of and maybe... Just maybe the liberal media will pay attention to us...
Eh, then again we are liberals, so probably not.