The Women of the Tea Party By Bill Miller  Once again, the Bubble-heads had it wrong. Once again, listen, the Tea Party is guided by the conscience of the individual. Many of our leaders, particularly at the local level are women. We dislike the Republican machine and party only less slightly then the Democratic one. In desperation to change the South Carolina narrative, that only a few days ago was defined by Karl Rove (Republican strategist) as this, "The winner of South Carolina is the eventual party nominee." Rove said, when it was apparent that Newt Gingrich was going to win, "This is a ticket to go on in the process." A perhaps a more honest analysis from Joe Trippi, Democratic Strategist, who has no skin in the game, reminded viewers that Sarah Palin requested the un decided vote for Gingrich and keep the campaign going. Rove said nothing in reply, after his and the party hacks attempted to marginalize Palin for past two years. It appears she really has more power and foresight then they do. An amused Palin queried, "Are you beltway pundits really this surprised or are you just feigning it?" Charles Krauthammer and Juan Williams both had to eat crow. Once again, the biggest problem Mitt Romney has is not his poor debate performance on releasing his taxes, or the idea he’s out of touch with the little guy, or his tenure as governor or his so called "flip flops."  He, like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, are not that different on the fundamental planks of conservatism. The biggest impediment that Mitt Romney has is he’s the Republican machine’s guy. I have spoken to many Tea Party leaders whose distrust of the Republican machine is so much that they would "risk" Ron Paul’s foreign policy, even though they don’t favor it, rather than just allow the machine to hand pick Romney. Plus, any of the four remaining candidates will be far superior to Obama domestically We all accept the fact that Romney will turn the economy around.  It is his strong suite, but what about dismantling the EPA, the Departments of Energy and Education? What about rolling back the "Great Society," let alone reigning in or eliminating the Federal Reserve. There is a nagging fear that Romney would not commit to doing any of these things. The Republican machine, after all, has never done any of these things and is actually responsible for half of them. But, conservatives have never wanted any of these government expansions. This is the ground where conservatives and Republican split. Ed Rollins (The National Campaign Director for the Reagan–Bush ‘84 campaign) said this morning, when questioned on a statement he had already made. "The Republican establishment will go to war with Newt Gingrich." "There has been a long history there and he’s never been the establishment candidate . . which may be a good thing in this environment . . ." "Every elected official from governors to members of congress . . . every big money guy. . . most of them. . . who has a vested interest in Romney are going to do everything they can to stop him. . . I’m not sure they can at this point of time. Conservatives are looking for an alternative, it’s now Newt." As for the conservative base Rollins continued, "They now think he can beat Obama and that is what they want." Reminded that conventional wisdom says Gingrich will implode, Rollins said he is not sure that it is Romney that may not implode. "Newt Gingrich is now the front runner of our party . . now you gotta take him out . . . I don’t think Romney can do that." Gingrich got 7 out of 10 self-described Tea Party adherents. The surprise to the pundits was his strong showing with women. Guess what, the Tea Party movement has a plurality of women leaders from national leaders like Amy Kremer and Jenny Beth Martin to local leaders in every state of the union. I have met and worked with many of them. We often talk of the Founding Fathers, but let us not forget there were Founding Mothers also. Indeed, the very Conscience of the Revolution was Mercy Otis Warren. She was an early patriot leader that helped our cause throughout the revolution: Not only with her eloquent pen, but in direct advisory rolls to Washington and Adams. After the war, she was just as important an anti-Federalist leader as Patrick Henry or George Mason. Remember it was the Anti-Federalists who insisted on the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights, the only device which is keeping the intrusive central government in Washington from morphing from a soft to hard tyranny. Thank God for the women’s conscience.