The Tea Party Express looking at vulnerable Democrats in 2010

The Tea Party express, a large caravan of the group famous for their demonstrations over the past few months, is set to arrive in Washington D.C. by the end of the week after traveling across the country.

According to Joe Wierzbicki, a strategist for the conservative PAC Our Country Deserves Better and one of the organizers of the Tea Party movement, "What we did was take a map of the United States and then we went head and pin pointed the members of congress that merited our attention and then we looked at those that might be politically vulnerable." Among the main stops that the Tea Party Express made were in Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, the states represented by Democratic Senators Harry Reid, Arlen Specter, and Chris Dodd. Those three senators are among the most vulnerable in the 2010 cycle and are top targets for conservative activists. The supporters of the Tea Party express state that they are not a partisan group or affiliated with Republicans. They view themselves as a conservative organization, rather than a Republican one. Wierzbicki has said that the group may support some moderate Democrats, like Idaho Congressman Walt Minnick, and oppose some Republicans like Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk who is running for the Senate in 2010. "It's hard to imagine us supporting too many Democrats. It would be an isolated incident," Wierzbicki says. "We are more likely to find a bad Republican and try to replace him with a more conservative one."