Coffee Party says Tea Partiers are welcome to crash their shindig – not so much vice versa

“Anytime you having something that’s big and successful you’re always going to have a copycat,” Meckler said.

Not all Tea Party activists are enthused by the idea. Dana Loesch, a conservative radio talk show host who also is a founder of the St. Louis Tea Party, wrote on her blog: “It’s nothing more than an astroturfed ploy by the left to lure independent voters away from the Tea Party.”

“No one has any idea as to what the Coffee Party is actually for; they say they are the alternative to the Tea Party movement – which means that since the Tea Party stands for limited government, believes in upholding the Constitution and believes in individual liberty, the Coffee Party, by its own admission, stands for bigger government, bucking the Constitution and no individual liberty,” Loesch wrote.

Mark Skoda, who is chairman of the Memphis Tea Party and was an organizer of the National Tea Party Convention, brought up that Park, who “claims to be an organic grassroots activist,” is a former Obama campaign volunteer. He dismissed that it’s comparable to the Tea Party movement, calling it “amusing.”

“It was an operative who thought she could be clever,” Skoda said of Park. “They’re absolutely off the mark, and I don’t believe there’s any animation or activism there.”