When you are wrong, you are wrong. I was wrong. Previously I wrote:  Has the Republican Party become as uniform in its composition as the “tea party” mob: white and mostly male? I should have known better. I should have remembered the old saw that behind every great man there is a great (some would say greater) woman. Today I read that there is evidence in the form of a poll that women dominate the “tea party” movement. I will leave it to you to adapt the old saw to this development so long as you include the phrase “more than one woman” and the word “rockbrained” or some equivalent. The information I have relied on in making this update it is set out below. I would only note that the “networking site SmartGirlPolitics” referred to in the piece advertises itself as a site where the conservative viewpoint is expressed in ”intelligible prose.” Having perused some of its contents I can only confirm that it is definitively not poetry.

I should also note that that the information furnished here comes from a service called “NewsMax”. It is a “conservative” site that tracks on a daily basis how close Democrats are to making the sky fall.

My apologies.  Here it is:

Those who say the tea party movement consists mostly of angry white men will have to recast their stereotyping in at least one regard — 55 percent of them are women, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll.

The survey included nearly 2,000 registered voters nationwide. About 13 percent said they are members of the tea party movement that has pushed for more than a year for lower taxes, more liberty, and smaller government. Of those self-identified tea party activists, about 55 per cent are women.

The finding won't come as a huge surprise to those who have followed the tea party movement. 

Women such as Jenny Beth Martin, Amy Kremer, and Darla Dawald hold leading roles in the movement. Sarah Palin and Mississippi congressional candidate Angela McGlowan are among the movement's political icons. And several women-oriented groups, such as the grass-roots networking site SmartGirlPolitics, have emerged to give women a place to voice their opinions and coordinate events. 
&#8232awald, national director of the ResistNet site, explained the activism of women conservatives to Politico.com: "You know the old saying that if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy? Well, when legislation messes with mama’s kids and it affects her family, then mama comes out fighting."

Given allegation of threats and vandalism lately, she was careful to add, "And I don’t mean in a violent way, of course.”

In addition to being mostly female, tea party activists share a strong distrust of government. 

The poll released late last week indicated that only 19 percent of American voters generally trust government to do the right thing "almost all of the time" or "most of the time." But among tea party activists, that figure drops to only 4 percent.