SLATE: IS THIS THE FUTURE OF THE TEA PARTY?

The Tea Party is often seen as being made up entirely of cranky middle-aged people who don’t like paying taxes. But here is smart, engaging young woman speaking with the poise of someone older. . . . What’s not so apparent in the above video, which was shot from very close to the stage, is how difficult it must have been to maintain that poise. Ann Althouse and her husband were near some anti-Tea Party protesters at the rally and captured them on film during Willoughby’s speech. They are beating drums, waving cowbells and ultimately boo Willoughby and tell her to “go home.”

Scared? They should be.