Politikon is a political blog from Spain and did a 3 part series about the Tea Party in general with Andrew Ian Dodge.

Talking to tea partiers (I)
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To see if someone could clear things up a few days ago I got in touch with Andrew Ian Dodge, a conservative activist who has spent years stuck in these things, and brings in the tea partybasically since the beginning, as one of the founders of the Tea Party Patriots . Dodge, writer, rock critic and blogger (!) Has decided to run the Republican primary in Maine, trying to throw Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican senator who committed the error (so to speak) to vote in favor of fiscal stimulus and reform of the health of Obama. The second thing once, and only to take the law committee in a vote not too relevant , but is the same

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Talking to tea partiers (II)

After two hours of conversation, it was time to go to the event I was invited Andrew Ian Dodge: a meeting of the York County constitutionalists (constitutional York County), the group of partiers tea locally. The event would take place in the social center of North Berwick, a small building you see the percent in small towns in New England. Normally (at least in Connecticut) are centers for older people (always crowded, is a vibrant community life), but always available for charity events, political rallies or meetings with political campaigning.

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Talking to tea partiers (III)

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The feeling that I had both of his conversation with Dodge as the militants, is that the Republican Party is a divided party, but I’m not sure it’s along the lines of fracture I had in mind. The fight is not between bases both radical and conservative leaders call for a more reasonable moderate elite, and more a battle between outsiders and insiders classic that sometimes it is about ideological purity, but not always. The division within the tea party is part of this conflict, with some classic conservatives trying to co-opt the energy of this movement and other trying not to take them forward. There are people joining with them to survive, others argue that the old oligarchy are those who know how to do things

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(editors note:  This is a google translation from the original Spanish.  You can go to the original posts and read in Spanish or translate them into English via Google Translate)