At Nashville Tea Party: Saving the Country, Waiting for Palin

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Is it a movement or a political party? When Opryland visitors with no clue they were sharing a hotel with the National Tea Party Convention call the gathering of grassroots groups “a step in the right direction,” the label hardly matters.

That endorsement from Paul Verderese and his wife, Patti, came on Thursday as we wandered the maze that is the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, headquarters for a national convention that hopes to bring the like-minded into a unit they believe can transform the country. The Auburn, Mass., couple had attended the victory party for their newly elected and now sworn-in senator, Scott Brown, the Republican who won “the Kennedy seat.” Calling it by that name was “the biggest thing that got him elected,” said Paul Verderese, an economist and financial planner. He is counting on Brown to be the “independent representative of the people,” as he promised during the campaign. “We don’t like every single thing about him, but we want change.”

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