Yes, the Tea Party had wealthy benefactors, but their money would not have succeeded without enormous grass-roots support.
For one, he is hoping to hitch his wagon to the enormous grass-roots movement behind Representative Ron Paul, the libertarian-minded Republican from Texas who recently abandoned his own presidential bid.
Frank's analysis of why there are so many libertarian think tanks in a country with so few libertarians is dead on: "The reason that we have so many well-funded libertarians in America these days is not because libertarianism suddenly acquired an enormous grass-roots following, but because it appeals to those who are able to fund ideas.
"I am no longer actively pursuing the presidency," Dr. Dean said, adding, "We will, however, continue to build a new organization using our enormous grass-roots network to continue the effort to transform the Democratic Party and to change our country".
"We have been demonstrating enormous grass-roots support," Mr. Lazio said, adding that some contributions have been as small as $2. Individual contributors are limited to hard-money donations of $1,000 for a general election and $1,000 for a primary.
"Think huge leaves, enormous grasses and flowers big as dinner plates.
Perhaps it is only fitting that in Texas, where everything is famously big, people battling an invasive aquatic plant should seek out an appropriately enormous solution: the grass carp, a plant-devouring fish that can reach 400 pounds.
He wants to be here instead, standing in the shadow of this old rust-hulk of a structure, and it's hard to blame him — this metropolis of steel and concrete and flaky paint and cropped grass and enormous Chesterfield packs aslant on the scoreboards, a couple of cigarettes jutting from each.
There are two enormous modern greenhouses, acres of grass, a long mirror pool with dancing water jets, six themed gardens and enormous magnolias.
Around noon, they reached the state capitol building and wove through thousands of fellow-protesters before settling onto a patch of grass, beneath an enormous red umbrella.
