At the Montana GOP Convention last weekend, Republican faithful rejected a slate of TEA party people running for Republican state party office, showing that when it comes to the TEA party, for the moment anyway sanity has prevailed.  GOP gubernatorial candidate Corey Stapleton even commented on the results on his Twitter feed (screenshot) that the:

Of course, the TEA partiers weren’t happy, and Jennifer Olsen, the leader of the Billings TEA Party who had run unsuccessfully for vice chair, said as much in the press:

But someone from party headquarters must have called up Olsen and told her that kind of thing was “off message” because this video was quickly posted.  Anyway, it’s a good sign that the Tea Party movement remains on a downward trajectory.