Today's little missive from Tea Party Nation about Nevada made me laugh out loud, and should amuse you too. I especially liked the part where they blamed Sharron Angle for losing the Latino vote:

They did not understand how to attract Hispanic votes. And they had better learn fast if they want to win any future elections. Hispanics are good people, family is their foundation, there are many Hispanic small business owners, and Hispanics should be part of the conservative movement. Conservatives and Tea Parties must learn how to communicate with and win over Hispanic voters or risk becoming obsolete.

OhReally? Now why on earth would Latinos want to align with people who say things like this in public? By the way, the Tea Party meeting where those words were uttered was the brainchild of Tea Party Nation. Or maybe Latinos should align with the same people who called for Tea Party members to arm themselves against the "illegals". Or the people who told Ruben Hinojosa to "go back to Mexico." Or maybe, they should align with them because Republicans unanimously blocked the DREAM Act?

Sharron Angle was a Tea Party Express project, not Tea Party Nation. In addition to being at war with the GOP, they're at war with each other. The Tea Party Express is the West Coast corporate front and Tea Party Nation is the east coast contingent, but they aren't especially friendly. In fact, they cancelled their "unity convention" because there is no unity among them. One could muse that unity would require some give-and-take, which is antithetical to the Tea Party, but really, they're competing interests on the larger corporate money landscape.

The bottom line: Marco Rubio or no Marco Rubio, the Tea Party is not a friend of the Latino community, no matter how much they claim otherwise.