Now that the election results are in and the Republican wave has rolled over the political scene, what is the future of the Tea Party movement? Because many of their chosen candidates did not win election, many pundits will try to indicate that the Tea Party movement is over, but nothing could be further from the truth.

The Tea Party attendees are just resting, but they are not gone. As Dick Armey, a leader in the Tea Party movement, noted in his book, Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto, he does not want a third political party ? “he wants to take back the Republican Party.”

Tea party attendees will rest and regroup and now become a grass-roots watchdog group. If the Republicans return to the spend-and-tax practices, bailouts, pork projects, and the big-government programs that caused the nation to turn on them, these grass-roots activists will be at their town hall meetings, calling them, and visiting their D.C. offices.

You can bet that they will also be targeting those Democrats who try to prevent a return to an era of lower taxes, less government intrusion, and reduced spending, hopefully, making their political lives a misery.

So do not think that the Tea Party movement is gone or over. After all, the Revolutionary War came after the original Tea Party, not before it.