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The Tea Party’s Cost To A Republican Senate

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…has been grossly exaggerated:

Had “the Tea Party” won in Missouri, the GOP likely would have gained a Senate seat. Had it lost in Indiana and Delaware, the GOP likely would have gained them. It’s a jump ball in Colorado and Nevada—let’s split the difference and say maybe Jane Norton would have eked it out. I’d say you can only blame “the Tea Party” for a net loss of two Senate seats since 2010. That’s a period during which it helped send Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul to the upper House—during which “establishment” candidates like Denny Rehberg, Heather Wilson, Rick Berg, Josh Mandel, George Allen, Tommy Thompson, Carly Fiorina, and Dino Rossi totally failed to win seats.

The notion that Tod Akin was a Tea Party candidate remains hilariously ignorant. Actually, the Tea Party seems to have effectively taken over the Republican Party, in the sense that its candidates have been forced to run on limited-government themes, which is a good thing.

3 thoughts on “The Tea Party’s Cost To A Republican Senate”

  1. The problem remains to see if these new office holders will walk the walk. Tea Party or Old Guard GOP types either one. The GOP clearly sees the Tea Party as its real enemy and is ready to cut deals with the Jack Ass party.

    “It is better to be openly attacked by confirmed enemies than repeatedly betrayed by false friends. – VD”

    1. The GOP clearly sees the Tea Party as its real enemy and is ready to cut deals with the Jack Ass party.

      Bingo. Reinforces my mantra that GOP and Democrats are simply two factions of a single party, the party of big government.

      Regarding your final sentence, it seems like the establishment GOP is going to get both, instead of either/or.

  2. Todd Akin was selected by the McCaskill reelection campaign as the Republican they most wanted to run against in 2012. McCaskill and outside democrat groups spent over $1 million in pro-Akin and anti-Akin opponents in the Republican primary to ensure Akin won. He was selected in part by democrat meddling, and as expected, promptly shot himself in the foot. He was not TEA Party. Cheers –

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