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“To be honest, the Tea Party has supported some really awful candidates. For example, Mourdock in Indiana. What makes you think it will get better?”

Mourdock and Akin were a checklist conservative who assumed he could win simply by running in a red state and repeat talking points. We need someone who really knows how to present his case...or shut up if he can’t.

If we can’t get better representation than Lugar for the GOP from Indiana, the GOP does need to go into the dustbin of history.

I only know of Mourdock’s extreme faux pas late in the campaign and see that you’re from Indiana. I’d be curious, what else (yes, I know, otherwise how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln) made him a bad candidate?

I am from Indiana, and Mourdock was a poor candidate. He was a very unappealing candidate in many ways. He lost because he beat Lugar, but I suspect he beat Lugar because Dems voted for him in the primary. They then trapped him on the abortion-rape issue because they knew it would work. Same thing as Akin.

Tea Party shot itself in the foot by getting off the original message.

The Tea Party has been hampered by not being a “real” political party. I can only speak for myself, but I suspect there are many like me who although we are fed up with wishy-washy Republican establishment candidates, have nevertheless supported them in order not to split the vote and give the election to the Dems.

Ok, we tried that. It didn’t work. They say the definition of insanity is trying the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.

Sure we can try something entirely different and still fail. I’d rather fail in a new way than keep failing in the same old stupid way.

I will admit that I do feel an overwhelming sense of defeat this morning. I sympathize with everyone who feels beaten down and discouraged.

Losing this election is like death. And like death, we have to go through the grieving process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Based on the posts I’ve read, most of us are in the anger or depression stage.

I can accept the reality that we lost the election. I will never accept the loss of our country. We are on life support and I am praying and working for a miracle, a cure, anything. If that means I’m delusional, so be it.

The Tea Party has not really been an organized force. That is both its strength and its weakness.

An intelligent person or group is not one that never fails. It is one that learns from its mistakes and improves.

The Tea Party is young. It’s learning. It’s improving.