That is two different election cycles, and you name Akins, who wasn’t tea party.
Palin and the tea party asked Akins to step down, and Palin didn’t endorse Angle for the primary in Nevada.
O’Donnell lost, but most agree her rino primary opponent would have also, again, that was back in 2010, when the tea party led the GOP to historic wins.
In 2012 the GOPe was a disaster of epic proportions, and lost the Senate, thank God that Palin gave us our only Senate seat pick-up, and Cruz down in Texas.
Without the tea party and people like Cruz and Rand Paul, and the tea party winners, things would look pretty dismal, Rove pent hundreds of millions in 2012, for nothing.
The tea party has strengthened the GOP since 2008.
“That is two different election cycles, and you name Akins, who wasn’t tea party.”
Didn’t know that Akin wasn’t TP. I know that Silverman was the stronger candidate ( at least that’s what those boots on the ground were saying). But all that is water under the bridge. Here we are in 2014 and unless the GOPe screws things up simply to attempt to retain their ill-gotten “power,” we have a good hand. Doubly so, because we are not only going after the RATs, but also the RINOs, particularly in the Senate ( which is your basic nest of snakes with less than a half a dozen good guys). It is gong to be uphill all the way to get Scrotum Chin, bur a couple of others look clearly doable (Cochran is one). And it would be a coup of the first order to get Cornyn. I am just hoping that Obamacare really pisses everyone off and that the RATs are faced with having it bring a bunch of them down. We are Winning!