If the GOP-E would simply start embracing the principals of fiscal restraint and limited government they supposedly believe in, they wouldn’t have a Tea Party “problem.”
STOP SPENDING. STOP BEING DEMOCRAT-LITE. STOP TRYING TO GET THE MEDIA TO LIKE YOU. Is that really too much to ask?
umm, Thad didn’t win. It was fraud. Proven fact
Tea party Republicans did not lose. Mcdaniels won by 8-9% among Republican voters. Now If we can just get the battered wife segment of the party to join us in casting off these rinos...
The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory, that one other such would utterly undo him/5/. For he had lost a great part of the forces he brought with him, and almost all his particular friends and principal commanders; there were no others there to make recruits, and he found the confederates in Italy backward. On the other hand, as from a fountain continually flowing out of the city, the Roman camp was quickly and plentifully filled up with fresh men, not at all abating in courage for the losses they sustained, but even from their very anger gaining new force and resolution to go on with the war.
What Cochran did to win has rallied the Tea Party more than ever. It was a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was one.
The Republican Party, so often the victim of election stealing by the Demmunist Party, has shown that it can play that game too — but only if it is played against the Tea Party.
I would say the future of the Tea Party is better than the GOP!
I'm usually a proponent of voting "our side" even if it's a lousy candidate, to keep their side out. In this case, "our side" has crossed deep into the dark side. I don't know if I can vote for the Dim, but Cochran will not get my family's votes.
If they think the initial primary put the pucker effect into the GOPe, wait for severe constipation to set in when Thad loses the seat and throws the crap into their smug faces.
We do not need his pronunciation that what is in our hearts is alive and kicking. Perhaps the rest of the lame streams (and yes this may be a circle talk to them ) and those who have never met us, have to understand we aren't going away.
FWIW the McDaniel ( and Brat effort ) is very analogous to an upstart Hockey Team ( or insert sport name ) that steps into a league above their grade and kick's butt in the play offs and may not win them all, but surprises the heck out of people.
May the surprises continue...