Reporting from Nashville — Sarah Palin may have declined to brand herself the leader of the “tea party” movement on Saturday, but she delivered a speech likely to earn her the title anyway.

Sarah Palin gave the keynote address at the first Tea Party Nation convention. She talked about the potential importance of the movement, encouraged tea party-aligned candidates to compete in ...

NASHVILLE – Sarah Palin told the National Tea Party Convention on Saturday night that “America is ready for another revolution,” and that the tea party movement would lead it.

But Ms Palin's peak probably came not when she was running alongside John McCain (possibly the worst decision of his political life) but in 2010, when the Republican Party was all about the Tea ...

Sarah Palin’s appearance is a coup for a movement now getting grudging respect from mainstream commentators. But will the feisty Tea Party movement coalesce with the GOP’s old guard?

Reporting from Reno — Seeking to channel the sign-bearing, flag-waving enthusiasm of the “tea party” movement into ballot-box victories, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told hundreds of ...

Will Sarah Palin’s Tea Party dinner be a bust? Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips likely assumed that scoring a dinner speech by the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential ...

Sarah Palin told thousands of tea party activists assembled in the dusty Nevada desert Saturday that Sen. Harry Reid will have to explain his votes when he comes back to his hometown to campaign.

So was that what the Tea Party, and "constitutional conservatism," was all about then? Throwing support behind a Constitution-bending, big-government populist who on April 15, 2009—the day that ...

In front of a crowd of Republican Party activists and the tea-party movement's rank and file here on Tuesday night, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin seemed to put a damper on speculation that ...

SEATTLE — Sarah Palin’s last elective position in Alaska ended early when in 2009 she abandoned the governorship midway through her first term. But tea party activists appear eager for a ...

By Sarah Dutton February 5, 2010 / 5:14 PM EST / CBS News Heading into the Tea Party movement's Nashville, Tenn., convention this weekend, most Americans don't have an opinion yet about the movement.