Well you’re right about Rove, but it’s bullshit to call Todd Akin, a six term incumbent, as a tea party outisder. He’s just dumb. Mourdock is legit a tea party mistake, but the establishment makes many more mistakes.
Here is how we fight BACK at ROVE: been in the works for months:
www.gone2012book.com
And that is an excellent point, this is a new movement, we are going to make mistakes, Akin and Mourdock are examples.
But we are also doing thing right-the 2010 elections showed that.
Akin and Murdoch were not the big mistakes. The biggest Tea Party mistake is tying to Marco Rubio.....who is really a big govt statist
In my view, the Tea Party is that part of the electorate who still think our Constitution should be followed; that the Federal Government is way too big and that spending has got to be controlled. And that is where they should stop for now. Rove's ideas are all pure politics which encompasses the enormous Federal Patchwork Quilt that needs restitching badly i.e., reduced by half. I think Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is the man to bring both sides together under one tent as it were.
Todd Akin was NOT supported by the Tea Party in the primary.
John Bruner and Sara Steelman got the Tea support.
It was McCaskle and the democrats who supported and voted for Adkin.
The fact that Lugar not only refused to help after his defeat, but went on to actively support the demonrat was what did in Mourdock.
I'm not mistaking Mourdock for Cruz (Cruz did not get that kind of opposition from the local GOP), but the sour grapes of an ex GOP power broker did him in. It was a sick display from a kindergarten loser who took his ball and went home, much akin to what some of the so called "conservative" purists did to Romney in like fashion.