An e-mail from California, the land of a woman of Carly Fiorina for Senate:

Hi Kathryn. I agree with your post about pro-life “clout” in the GOP. Just want to add that as a tea partier it really gets my goat when people attribute any one opinion to a “Tea Party Leader.” That shows me they don’t understand what the tea party is about. If anyone thinks that Dick Armey, for example, speaks for me, he is badly mistaken.