The Tea Party Must Not Grow Too Quickly

The problem with Obama is he was untested. He had less work experience than I would hire into the company where I work. And believe me, the jobs here are not as important.

In software development, you build your project in steps. Write a small piece of code and test it. Continue adding to it. When it's small, it is easy to find bugs and alter the entire architecture, change the structure before it grows too large.

Starting a new job is much the same: You start with a filing system and how to track reminders and action items. Before long, you realize the types of problems are different than the way you organized things. For example, if you created five folders, four are nearly empty while all the work seems to end up in the fifth one. You need to restructure.

Without a track record, it was easy for Obama to chisel out the right position against lame McCain. But without a track record, we had very little idea of what he would do in office or how well he would work. One plus: He had a very effective campaign team. If this was anything like the presidental administration to follow, we could look foreward to a great Presidency. But it wasn't. We didn't elect the campaign team. The lesson is this: Look for a track record before you commit too much too an unknown candidate. The same is true of the entire Tea Party. It has to be tested in degrees, honed, improved and fine-tuned before we hand the reigns entirely over to them. But if the ideas are sound, this is a juggernaut that cannot be stopped. The current administration has no chance to do the same.